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Title:
The Anthropology of media : a reader
Author:
Askew, Kelly Michelle.
ISBN:
9780631220930

9780631220947
Publication Information:
Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2002.
Physical Description:
xi, 416 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Series:
Blackwell readers in anthropology ; 2

Blackwell readers in anthropology ; 2.
Contents:
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
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