Research Catalog

Title

Media worlds : anthropology on new terrain / edited by Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, and Brian Larkin.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2002], ©2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

Ginsburg, Faye D.

Description

xvi, 413 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Mass media and culture

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• I. Cultural Activism and Minority Claims. 1. Screen Memories: Resignifying the Traditional in Indigenous Media / Faye D. Ginsburg. 2. Visual Media and the Primitivist Perplex: Colonial Fantasies, Indigenous Imagination, and Advocacy in North America / Harald E. L. Prins. 3. Representation, Politics, and Cultural Imagination in Indigenous Video: General Points and Kayapo Examples / Terence Turner. 4. Spectacles of Difference: Cultural Activism and the Mass Mediation of Tibet / Meg McLagan -- II. The Cultural Politics of Nation-States. 5. Egyptian Melodrama - Technology of the Modern Subject? / Lila Abu-Lughod. 6. Epic Contests: Television and Religious Identity in India / Purnima Mankekar. 7. The National Picture: Thai Media and Cultural Identity / Annette Hamilton. 8. Television, Time, and the National Imaginary in Belize / Richard R. Wilk -- III. Transnational Circuits.
• 9. Mass Media and Transnational Subjectivity in Shanghai: Notes on (Re)Cosmopolitanism in a Chinese Metropolis / Mayfair Mei-hui Yang. 10. A Marshall Plan of the Mind: The Political Economy of a Kazakh Soap Opera / Ruth Mandel. 11. Mapping Hmong Media in Diasporic Space / Louisa Schein -- IV. The Social Sites of Production. 12. Putting American Public Television Documentary in Its Places / Barry Dornfeld. 13. Culture in the Ad World: Producing the Latin Look / Arlene Davila. 14. "And Yet My Heart Is Still Indian": The Bombay Film Industry and the (H)Indianization of Hollywood / Tejaswini Ganti. 15. Arrival Scenes: Complicity and Media Ethnography in the Bolivian Public Sphere / Jeff D. Himpele -- V. The Social Life of Technology. 16. The Materiality of Cinema Theaters in Northern Nigeria / Brian Larkin. 17. Mobile Machines and Fluid Audiences: Rethinking Reception through Zambian Radio Culture / Debra Spitulnik.
• 18. The Indian Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Or, What Happens When Peasants "Get Hold" of Images / Christopher Pinney. 19. Live or Dead? Televising Theater in Bali / Mark Hobart. 20. A Room with a Voice: Mediation and Mediumship in Thailand's Information Age / Rosalind C. Morris.

ISBN

• 0520224485 (Cloth : alk. paper)
• 0520232313 (Paper : alk. paper)
• 9780520232310 (Paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002002312

OCLC

• ocm49011573
• SCSB-4303029

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries