Media Worlds

by Ginsburg, Faye D.

• ISBN13: 9780520232310
• ISBN10: 0520232313
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: Ingram Pub Services

Summary

A pathbreaking collection of essays in the ethnography of media--a burgeoning new area in anthropology. The co-editors are powerhouses, as are the contributors.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xi
Preface	xiii
Introduction	1	(38)
I. CULTURAL ACTIVISM AND MINORITY CLAIMS
Screen Memories: Resignifying the Traditional in Indigenous Media	39	(19)
Faye D. Ginsburg
Visual Media and the Primitivist Perplex: Colonial Fantasies, Indigenous Imagination, and Advocacy in North America	58	(17)
Harald E. L. Prins
Representation, Politics, and Cultural Imagination in Indigenous Video: General Points and Kayapo Examples	75	(15)
Terence Turner
Spectacles of Difference: Cultural Activism and the Mass Mediation of Tibet	90	(25)
Meg McLagan
II. THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF NATION-STATES
Egyptian Melodrama-Technology of the Modern Subject?	115	(19)
Lila Abu-Lughod
Epic Contests: Television and Religious Identity in India	134	(18)
Purnima Mankekar
The National Picture: Thai Media and Cultural Identity	152	(19)
Annette Hamilton
Television, Time, and the National Imaginary in Belize	171	(18)
Richard R. Wilk
III. TRANSNATIONAL CIRCUITS
Mass Media and Transnational Subjectivity in Shanghai: Notes on (Re)Cosmopolitanism in a Chinese Metropolis	189	(22)
Mayfair Mei-hui Yang
A Marshall Plan of the Mind: The Political Economy of a Kazakh Soap Opera	211	(18)
Ruth Mandel
Mapping Hmong Media in Diasporic Space	229	(18)
Louisa Schein
IV. THE SOCIAL SITES OF PRODUCTION
Putting American Public Television Documentary in Its Places	247	(17)
Barry Dornfeld
Culture in the Ad World: Producing the Latin Look	264	(17)
Arlene Davila
``And Yet My Heart Is Still Indian'': The Bombay Film Industry and the (H)Indianization of Hollywood	281	(20)
Tejaswini Ganti
Arrival Scenes: Complicity and Media Ethnography in the Bolivian Public Sphere	301	(18)
Jeff D. Himpele
V. THE SOCIAL LIFE OF TECHNOLOGY
The Materiality of Cinema Theaters in Northern Nigeria	319	(18)
Brian Larkin
Mobile Machines and Fluid Audiences: Rethinking Reception through Zambian Radio Culture	337	(18)
Debra Spitulnik
The Indian Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Or, What Happens When Peasants ``Get Hold'' of Images	355	(15)
Christopher Pinney
Live or Dead? Televising Theater in Bali	370	(13)
Mark Hobart
A Room with a Voice: Mediation and Mediumship in Thailand's Information Age	383	(16)
Rosalind C. Morn's
Contributors	399	(4)
Index	403