Research Catalog

Title

Media anthropology / editors, Eric W. Rothenbuhler, Mihai Coman.

Publication

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, [2005], ©2005.

Supplementary Content

• Publisher description
• Contributor biographical information
• Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Additional Authors

• Rothenbuhler, Eric W.
• Coman, Mihai.

Description

xii, 350 pages; 26 cm

Summary

• "Media Anthropology is an interdisciplinary reader that represents a convergence of issues and interests on anthropological approaches to the study of media. While other books on this topic examine traditional anthropology and push that field toward the media, in this book, editors Eric W. Rothenbuhler and Mihai Coman take a novel approach by analyzing media studies and guiding that field toward anthropological thinking. This anthology charts media anthropology as a field of study and provides examples of current research that identify its major concepts and methods in chapters written by leading scholars from several countries and academic disciplines." "Media Anthropology is an excellent textbook for undergraduate and graduate students studying media anthropology in Communication and Media Studies, Journalism, Anthropology, Sociology, and Cultural Studies programs."--BOOK JACKET.
• "In various disciplines and under a variety of labels, work relevant to media anthropology has been accumulating for years. This growth has not been well organized, though, and this name for a field of study has not yet been widely recognized. Media Anthropology represents a convergence of issues and interests on anthropological approaches to the study of media. The purpose of this reader is to promote the identity of the field of study; identify its major concepts, methods, and bibliography; comment on the state of the art; and provide examples of current research. Based on original articles by leading scholars from several countries and academic disciplines, Media Anthropology provides essays introducing the issues, reviewing the field, forging new conceptual syntheses." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0658/2004026098-d.html.

Subjects

• Anthropologie
• Médias et anthropologie
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Anthropologie visuelle
• Antropologische aspecten
• Massamedia
• Anthropology > Computer network resources
• Anthropology in popular culture
• Visual anthropology
• Ritual
• Mass media and anthropology
• Massenmedien

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also issued online.

Contents

Preface -- 1. The Promise of Media Anthropology -- Mihai Coman and Eric W. Rothenbuhler -- PART I: HISTORIES AND DEBATES -- 2. Media Anthropology, An Introduction -- Faye Ginsburg -- 3. The Profanity of the Media -- Mark Hobart -- 4. Proposal for Mass Media Anthropology -- Francisco Osorio -- 5. Cultural Anthropology and Mass Media: A Processual Approach -- Mihai Coman -- PART II: CONCEPTS AND METHODS -- 6. Media Rituals: Beyond Functionalism -- Nick Couldry -- 7. Ritual Media: Historical Perspectives and Social Functions -- Pascal Lardellier -- 8. The Emergence of Religious Forms in Television -- Günter Thomas -- 9. The Church of the Cult of the Individual -- Eric W. Rothenbuhler -- 10. News as Myth: Daily News and Eternal Stories -- Jack Lule -- 11. News Stories and Myth?the Impossible Reunion? -- Mihai Coman -- 12. News as Stories -- Michael Schudson -- 13. Performing Media: Toward an Ethnography of Intertextuality -- Mark Peterson -- 14. Audience Ethnographies: A Media Engagement Approach -- Antonio La Pastina -- 15. Picturing Practices: Visual Anthropology and Media Ethnography -- Graham Murdock and Sarah Pink -- PART III: EVENTS, STORIES, ACTIVITIES -- 16. The Pope?s Visit to Reunion Island -- Daniel Dayan -- 17. Ground Zero, the Firemen, and the Symbolics of Touch on 9/11 and After -- Eric W. Rothenbuhler -- 18. Myths to the Rescue: How Live Television Intervenes in History -- Tamar Liebes and Menahem Blondheim -- 19. Finding Aids to the Past: Bearing Personal Witness to Traumatic Public Events -- Barbie Zelizer -- 20. Telling What-a-Story News Through Myth and Ritual: The Middle East as Wild West -- Daniel Berkowitz -- 21. CJ?s Revenge: A Case Study of News as Cultural Narrative -- S. Elizabeth Bird -- 22. Ritualized Play, Art, and Communication on Internet Relay Chat -- Brenda Danet -- 23. Religion and Meaning in the Digital Age: Field Research on Internet/Web Religion -- Stewart M. Hoover and Jin Kyu Park -- 24. Weaving Trickster: Myth and Tribal Encounters on the World Wide Web -- Anita Hammer -- 25. The Mass Media and the Transformation of Collective Identity: Quebec and Israel -- Dov Shinar -- PART IV: THEORY INTO PRACTICE -- 26. Activist Media Anthropology: Antidote to Extremist Worldviews -- Susan L. Allen -- 27. Speaking with the Sources: Science Writers and Anthropologists -- Merry Bruns -- 28. The Journalist as Ethnographer? How Anthropology can Enrich Journalistic Practice -- S. Elizabeth Bird -- 29. Journalism Education and Practice -- Gerd G. Kopper -- 30. The Public Sphere: Linking the Media and Civic Cultures -- Peter Dahlgren -- About the Authors

ISBN

• 1412906709 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781412906708 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 141292555X
• 9781412925556

LCCN

2004026098

OCLC

• ocm56924719
• 56924719
• SCSB-5199890

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries