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Autore |
Foster Robert John <1957-> |
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Materializing the nation : commodities, consumption, and media in Papua New Guinea / / Robert J. Foster |
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Bloomington ; ; Indianapolis, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , [2002] |
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©2002 |
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ISBN |
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0-253-21549-8 |
0-253-01361-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Anthropology - Papua New Guinea |
Ethnopsychology - Papua New Guinea |
Nationalism - Papua New Guinea |
Consumption (Economics) - Papua New Guinea |
Materialism - Social aspects - Papua New Guinea |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-194) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : everyday nation making: the case of Papua New Guinea -- State-sponsored nation making. Take care of public telephones : moral education and nation-state formation. Your money, our money, the government's money : finance and fetishism in Melanesia -- Commercial nation making. Print advertisements and nation making. Commercial mass media : notes on agency, bodies, and commodity consumption. The commercial construction of "new" nations -- Nation making in this era of globalization. News of the world : Millenarian Christianity and the Olympic Torch Relay. Globalization : a soft drink perspective. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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""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 |
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