Materializing the nation : commodities, consumption, and media in Papua New Guinea / / Robert J. Foster
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| Autore: |
Foster Robert John <1957->
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| Titolo: |
Materializing the nation : commodities, consumption, and media in Papua New Guinea / / Robert J. Foster
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| Pubblicazione: | Bloomington ; ; Indianapolis, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , [2002] |
| ©2002 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.8/009953 |
| Soggetto topico: | Anthropology - Papua New Guinea |
| Ethnopsychology - Papua New Guinea | |
| Nationalism - Papua New Guinea | |
| Consumption (Economics) - Papua New Guinea | |
| Materialism - Social aspects - Papua New Guinea | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-194) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | ""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 thr |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Materializing the nation |
| ISBN: | 0-253-21549-8 |
| 0-253-01361-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910817802903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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