1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910481021603321

Titolo

Media anthropology [[electronic resource] /] / editors, Eric W. Rothenbuhler, Mihai Coman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : SAGE, c2005

ISBN

1-4522-6720-0

1-322-30698-2

1-4522-3381-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (451 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RothenbuhlerEric W

ComanMihai

Disciplina

301

Soggetti

Anthropology in popular culture

Anthropology - Computer network resources

Mass media and anthropology

Visual anthropology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The Promise of Media Anthropology; Part I: Histories and Debates; 2. Media Anthropology: An Introduction; 3. The Profanity of the Media; 4. Proposal for Mass Media Anthropology; 5. Cultural Anthropology and Mass Media: A Processual Approach; Part II: Concepts and Methods; 6. Media Rituals: Beyond Functionalism; 7. Ritual Media: Historical Perspectives and Social Functions; 8. The Emergence of Religious Forms in Television; 9. The Church of the Cult of the Individual; 10. News as Myth: Daily News and Eternal Stories

11. News Stories and Myth-the Impossible Reunion?12. News as Stories; 13. Performing Media: Toward an Ethnography of Intertextuality; 14. Audience Ethnographies: A Media Engagement Approach; 15. Picturing Practices: Visual Anthropology and Media Ethnography; Part III: Events, Stories, Activities; 16. The Pope at Reunion: Hagiography, Casting, and Imagination; 17. Ground Zero, the Firemen, and the Symbolics of Touch on 9-11 and After; 18. Myths to



the Rescue: How Live Television Intervenes in History; 19. Finding Aids to the Past: Bearing Personal Witness to Traumatic Public Events

20. Telling What-a-Story News Through Myth and Ritual: The Middle East as Wild West21. CJ's Revenge: A Case Study of News as Cultural Narrative; 22. Ritualized Play, Art, and Communication on Internet Relay Chat; 23. The Anthropology of Religious Meaning Making in the Digital Age; 24. Weaving Trickster: Myth and Tribal Encounters on the World Wide Web; 25. The Mass Media and the Transformation of Collective Identity: Québec and Israel; Part IV: Theory into Practice; 26. Activist Media Anthropology: Antidote to Extremist Worldviews

27. Speaking With the Sources: Science Writers and Anthropologists28. The Journalist as Ethnographer? How Anthropology Can Enrich Journalistic Practice; 29. Journalism Education and Practice; 30. The Public Sphere: Linking the Media and Civic Cultures; Index; About the Editors; About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

An overview of anthropological approaches to the study of the mass media, this book identifies major concepts, methods & bibliography from current research.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785889003321

Autore

Mlalazi Christopher

Titolo

Running with mother [[electronic resource] /] / by Christopher Mlalazi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Harare, Zimbabwe, : Weaver Press, 2012

ISBN

1-77922-212-2

1-283-59342-4

1-77922-211-4

9786613905871

1-77922-210-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (150 p.)

Soggetti

Zimbabwean fiction

Zimbabwean literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title page ; Copyright page; About the Author; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Chapter 16; Chapter 17; Chapter 18; Chapter 19; Chapter 20; Chapter 21; Chapter 22; Chapter 23; Chapter 24; Chapter 25; Chapter 26; Chapter 27; Chapter 28; Chapter 29; Chapter 30; Chapter 31; Chapter 32; Chapter 33; Chapter 34; Chapter 35; Chapter 36; Chapter 37; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Unsentimental and unselfpitying, this short but powerful novel by Chris Mlalazi vivifies an account by Rudo, a fourteen-year-old school girl who observes the terrifying events that take place in her village. Running with Mother provides us with a gripping story of how Rudo, her mother, her aunt and her little cousin survive the onslaught. Shocking as the story that unfolds may be, it is balanced by the resilience, self-respect, unselfishness and stoicism of the protagonists. Mlalazi's novel is written with insight, humour and provides a salutory reminder that even in the worst of times, we can