ISBN:
9780253341471
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (216 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Materializing the Nation : Commodities, Consumption, and Media in Papua New Guinea
DDC:
305.8/009953
Keywords:
Consumption (Economics)
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
""Foster shows us how seemingly banal activities like making a phone call, chewing betel nut, watching a Coke commercial may give important insights into the ways in which the nation is constructed, materialized or contested.""-Orvar Löfgren, author of On Holiday: A History of VacationingWhy, in the current era of globalization, does nationality remain an important dimension of personal and collective identities? In Materializing the Nation, Robert J. Foster argues that the contested process of nation making in Papua New Guinea unfolds not only through organized politics but also through munda
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Everyday Nation Making: The Case of Papua New Guinea; Part I: State-Sponsored Nation Making; 1 Take Care of Public Telephones: Moral Education and Nation-State Formation; 2 Your Money, Our Money, the Government's Money: Finance and Fetishism in Melanesia; Part II: Commercial Nation Making; 3 Print Advertisements and Nation Making; 4 Commercial Mass Media: Notes on Agency, Bodies, and Commodity Consumption; 5 The Commercial Construction of ""New"" Nations; Part III: Nation Making in This Era of Globalization
Description / Table of Contents:
6 News of the World: Millenarian Christianity and the Olympic Torch Relay7 Globalization: A Soft Drink Perspective; Notes; References; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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