Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain
Berkeley: University of California Press (2002), xvi, 413 pp.
Contains index
ISBN 0-520-22448-5 (hbk); 0-520-23231-3 (pbk)
Signature commbox: 10-Culture-E 2002
Introduction, 1
I. CULTURAL ACTIVISM AND MINORITY CLAIMS
1 Screen Memories: Resignifying the Traditional in Indigenous Media / Faye D. Ginsburg, 39
2 Visual Media and the Primitivist Perplex: Colonial Fantasies, Indigenous Imagination, and Advocacy in North America / Harald E. L. Prins, 58
3 Representation, Politics, and Cultural Imagination in Indigenous Video: General Points and Kayapo Examples / Terence Turner, 75
4 Spectacles of Difference: Cultural Activism and the Mass Mediation of Tibet / Meg McLagan, 90
II. THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF NATION-STATES
5 Egyptian Melodrama-Technology of the Modern Subject? / Lila Abu-Lughod, 115
6 Epic Contests: Television and Religious Identity in India / Purnima Mankekar, 134
7 The National Picture: Thai Media and Cultural Identity / Annette Hamilton, 152
8 Television, Time, and the National Imaginary in Belize / Richard R Wilk, 171
III. TRANSNATIONAL CIRCUITS
9 Mass Media and Transnational Subjectivity in Shanghai: Notes on (Re)Cosmopolitanism in a Chinese Metropolis / Mayfair Mei-hui Yang, 189
10 A Marshall Plan of the Mind: The Political Economy of a Kazakh Soap Opera / Ruth Mandel, 211
11 Mapping Hmong Media in Diasporic Space / Louisa Schein, 229
IV. THE SOCIAL SITES OF PRODUCTION
12 Putting American Public Television Documentary in Its Places / Barry Dornfeld, 247
13 Culture in the Ad World: Producing the Latin Look / Arlene Dávila, 264
14 "And Yet My Heart Is Still Indian": The Bombay Film Industry and the (H)Indianization of Hollywood / Tejaswini Ganti, 281
15 Arrival Scenes: Complicity and Media Ethnography in the Bolivian Public Sphere / Jeff D. Himpele, 301
V. THE SOCIAL LIFE OF TECHNOLOGY
16 The Materiality of Cinema Theaters in Northern Nigeria / Brian Larkin, 319
17 Mobile Machines and Fluid Audiences: Rethinking Reception through Zambian Radio Culture / Debra Spitulnik, 337
18 The Indian Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Or, What Happens When Peasants "Get Hold" of Images / ChristopherPinney, 355
19 Live or Dead? Televising Theater in Bali / Mark Hobart, 370
20 A Room with a Voice: Mediation and Mediumship in Thailand's Information Age / Rosalind C. Morris, 383
I. CULTURAL ACTIVISM AND MINORITY CLAIMS
1 Screen Memories: Resignifying the Traditional in Indigenous Media / Faye D. Ginsburg, 39
2 Visual Media and the Primitivist Perplex: Colonial Fantasies, Indigenous Imagination, and Advocacy in North America / Harald E. L. Prins, 58
3 Representation, Politics, and Cultural Imagination in Indigenous Video: General Points and Kayapo Examples / Terence Turner, 75
4 Spectacles of Difference: Cultural Activism and the Mass Mediation of Tibet / Meg McLagan, 90
II. THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF NATION-STATES
5 Egyptian Melodrama-Technology of the Modern Subject? / Lila Abu-Lughod, 115
6 Epic Contests: Television and Religious Identity in India / Purnima Mankekar, 134
7 The National Picture: Thai Media and Cultural Identity / Annette Hamilton, 152
8 Television, Time, and the National Imaginary in Belize / Richard R Wilk, 171
III. TRANSNATIONAL CIRCUITS
9 Mass Media and Transnational Subjectivity in Shanghai: Notes on (Re)Cosmopolitanism in a Chinese Metropolis / Mayfair Mei-hui Yang, 189
10 A Marshall Plan of the Mind: The Political Economy of a Kazakh Soap Opera / Ruth Mandel, 211
11 Mapping Hmong Media in Diasporic Space / Louisa Schein, 229
IV. THE SOCIAL SITES OF PRODUCTION
12 Putting American Public Television Documentary in Its Places / Barry Dornfeld, 247
13 Culture in the Ad World: Producing the Latin Look / Arlene Dávila, 264
14 "And Yet My Heart Is Still Indian": The Bombay Film Industry and the (H)Indianization of Hollywood / Tejaswini Ganti, 281
15 Arrival Scenes: Complicity and Media Ethnography in the Bolivian Public Sphere / Jeff D. Himpele, 301
V. THE SOCIAL LIFE OF TECHNOLOGY
16 The Materiality of Cinema Theaters in Northern Nigeria / Brian Larkin, 319
17 Mobile Machines and Fluid Audiences: Rethinking Reception through Zambian Radio Culture / Debra Spitulnik, 337
18 The Indian Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Or, What Happens When Peasants "Get Hold" of Images / ChristopherPinney, 355
19 Live or Dead? Televising Theater in Bali / Mark Hobart, 370
20 A Room with a Voice: Mediation and Mediumship in Thailand's Information Age / Rosalind C. Morris, 383
