The medium is the message / The technology and the society / On the use of the camera in anthropology / The ambiguity of the photograph / Save, save the lore / The gaze of western humanism / The color of sex: postwar photographic histories of race and gender / The imperial imaginary / Complicities of style / Hollywood and the USA / Yoruba photography: how the Yoruba see themselves / Relationships / Mediating culture: indigenous media, ethnographic film, and the production of identity / Radio texture: between self and others / The Tongan tradition of going to the movies / Rambo's wife saves the day: subjugating the gaze and subverting the narrative in a Papua New Guinean swamp / "It's destroying a whole generation": television and moral discourse in Belize / National texts and gendered lives: an ethnography of television viewers in a north Indian city / Image-based culture: advertising and popular culture / The global and the local in international communications / Media and cultural politics in Nicaragua, 1920-1956 / The objects of soap opera: Egyptian television and the cultural politics of modernity