Robert J. Foster

Materializing the Nation

Commodities, Consumption, and Media in Papua New Guinea

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Foster shows us how seemingly banal activities like making a phonecall, chewing betel nut, watching a Coke commercial may give important insights intothe ways in which the nation is constructed, materialized or contested. --Orvar L fgren, author of On Holiday: A History ofVacationingWhy, in the current era of globalization, doesnationality remain an important dimension of personal and collective identities? InMaterializing the Nation, Robert J. Foster argues that the contested process ofnation making in Papua New Guinea unfolds not only through organized politics butalso through mundane engagements with commodities and mass media. He offers a… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-253-21549-9
EAN: 9780253215499
Produktnummer: 9767089
Verlag: Indiana University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Seitenangabe: 216 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.5 cm x D0.0 cm 340 g
Abbildungen: 30 b&w photos, 1 index
Gewicht: 340
Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor

Robert J. Foster is Professor of Anthropology and Mercer Brugler Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Rochester. He is author of Social Reproduction and History in Melanesia and Coca-Globalization: Following Soft Drinks from New York to New Guinea and editor of Nation Making: Emergent Identities in Postcolonial Melanesia.