Materializing the Nation - Commodities, Consumption, and Media in Papua New Guinea

This volume will appeal to readers interested in the links among nationalism, consumption, and media, in Melanesia and elsewhere.

List of contents

Preliminary Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Everyday Nation Making: The Case of Papua New Guinea

1. Take Care of Public Telephones: Moral Education and Nation-State Formation

2. Your Money, Our Money, the Government's Money: Finance and Fetishism in Melanesia

3. Print Advertisements and Nation Making

4. Commercial Mass Media: Notes on Agency, Bodies, and Commodity Consumption

5. The Commercial Construction of 'New' Nations

6. News of the World: Millenarian Christianity and the Olympic Torch Relay

7. Globalization: A Soft Drink Perspective

Notes

References

Index

About the author

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.

Summary

An ethnographic exploration of everyday nation-making in Papua New Guinea

Product details

• Authors: Robert J Foster, Robert J. Foster, Foster Robert J
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2002
• EAN: 9780253215499
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21549-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 247 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology