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

• Pubblicazione: Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : SAGE, c2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (451 p.)
• Disciplina: 301
• Soggetto topico: Anthropology in popular culture; Anthropology - Computer network resources; Mass media and anthropology; Visual anthropology
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: RothenbuhlerEric W ComanMihai
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Media anthropology
• ISBN: 1-4522-6720-0; 1-322-30698-2; 1-4522-3381-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910481021603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II