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Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain

By Brian Larkin , Faye D. Ginsburg , Lila Abu-Lughod

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2002
ISBN
0520224485, 9780520224483, 9781417520305
LCC
P94.6 .M426 2002
Open Library ID
OL23240128M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2955240 bytes)
Pages
410\433
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05

Description

This groundbreaking volume showcases the exciting work emerging from the ethnography of media, a burgeoning new area in anthropology that expands both social theory and ethnographic fieldwork to examine the way media-film, television, video-are used in societies around the globe, often in places that have been off the map of conventional media studies. The contributors, key figures in this new field, cover topics ranging from indigenous media projects around the world to the unexpected effects of state control of media to the local impact of film and television as they travel transnationally. Their essays, mostly new work produced for this volume, bring provocative new theoretical perspectives grounded in cross-cultural ethnographic realities to the study of media. 23 b/w photographs

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