Research Catalog

Title

The Anthropology of media : a reader / edited by Kelly Askew and Richard R. Wilk.

Publication

Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Askew, Kelly Michelle.
• Wilk, Richard R.

Description

xi, 416 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Blackwell readers in anthropology ; 2

Uniform Title

Blackwell readers in anthropology ; 2.

Subject

Mass media and culture

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [394]-405) and index.

Contents

Introduction / Kelly Askew -- Pt. I. Seeing/Hearing is Believing: Technology and Truth -- 1. The Medium is the Message / Marshall McLuban -- 2. The Technology and the Society / Raymond Williams -- 3. On the Use of the Camera in Anthropology / Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson -- 4. The Ambiguity of the Photograph / John Berger -- 5. Save, Save the Lore! / Erika Brady -- Pt. II. Representing Others -- 6. The Gaze of Western Humanism / James C. Faris -- 7. The Color of Sex: Postwar Photographic Histories of Race and Gender / Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins -- 8. The Imperial Imaginary / Ella Shohat and Robert Stam -- 9. Complicities of Style / David MacDougall -- Pt. III. Representing Selves -- 10. Hollywood and the USA / Hortense Powdermaker -- 11. Yoruba Photography: How the Yoruba See Themselves / Stephen F. Sprague -- 12. Relationships / Daniel Miller and Don Slater -- 13. Mediating Culture: Indigenous Media, Ethnographic Film, and the Production of Identity / Faye Ginsburg -- Pt. IV. Active Audiences -- 14. Radio Texture: Between Self and Others / Jo Tacchi -- 15. The Tongan Tradition of Going to the Movies / Elizabeth Hahn -- 16. Rambo's Wife Saves the Day: Subjugating the Gaze and Subverting the Narrative in a Papua New Guinean Swamp / Don Kulick and Margaret Willson -- 17. "It's Destroying a Whole Generation": Television and Moral Discourse in Belize / Richard R. Wilk -- 18. National Texts and Gendered Lives: An Ethnography of Television Viewers in a North Indian City / Purnima Mankekar -- Pt. V. Power, Colonialism, Nationalism -- 19. Image-Based Culture: Advertising and Popular Culture / Sut Jhally -- 20. The Global and the Local in International Communications / Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi -- 21. Media and Cultural Politics in Nicaragua, 1920-1956 / David E. Whisnant -- 22. The Objects of Soap Opera: Egyptian Television and the Cultural Politics of Modernity / Lila Abu-Lughod.

ISBN

• 0631220933 (alk. paper)
• 0631220941 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2001043965

OCLC

• ocm48077399
• SCSB-5196791

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries