Materializing the Nation
Commodities, Consumption, and Media in Papua New Guinea
Foster shows us how seemingly banal activities like making a phone call, chewing betel nut, watching a Coke commercial may give important insights into the ways in which the nation is constructed, materialized or contested.-Orvar Löfgren, author of On Holiday: A History of VacationingWhy, in the current era of globalization, does nationality remain an important dimension of personal and collective identities? In Materializing the Nation, Robert J. Foster argues that the contested process of nation making in Papua New Guinea unfolds not only through organized politics but also through mundane engagements with commodities and mass media. He off…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-253-01361-3
- EAN: 9780253013613
- Produktnummer: 20448798
- Verlag: Indiana University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 216 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 7'889 KB
- Abbildungen: 30 b&w photos, 1 index
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.
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