03282nam 2200673 450 991081780290332120230207232237.00-253-21549-80-253-01361-5(CKB)2550000001159468(EBL)1543752(OCoLC)863203866(SSID)ssj0001163532(PQKBManifestationID)11656273(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001163532(PQKBWorkID)11163892(PQKB)11768794(MiAaPQ)EBC1543752(OCoLC)862746654(MdBmJHUP)muse32622(Au-PeEL)EBL1543752(CaPaEBR)ebr10799748(CaONFJC)MIL542672(EXLCZ)99255000000115946820020205h20022002 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMaterializing the nation commodities, consumption, and media in Papua New Guinea /Robert J. FosterBloomington ;Indianapolis, Indiana :Indiana University Press,[2002]©20021 online resource (216 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-253-34147-7 1-306-11421-7 Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-194) and index.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.""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 thrAnthropologyPapua New GuineaEthnopsychologyPapua New GuineaNationalismPapua New GuineaConsumption (Economics)Papua New GuineaMaterialismSocial aspectsPapua New GuineaAnthropologyEthnopsychologyNationalismConsumption (Economics)MaterialismSocial aspects305.8/009953Foster Robert John1957-51926MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817802903321Materializing the nation3942237UNINA