The Anthropology of Media

A Reader

Kelly Askew, Richard R. Wilk (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

432 Seiten

2002
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-0-631-22094-7 (ISBN)

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* Brings together key writings in the emergent field of the anthropology of media for the first time. * Offers critical overview of how mass media represents and constructs both Western and non--Western cultures. * Integrates key themes in the anthropology of media by means of editorial commentary.

The Anthropology of Media: A Reader

Brings together key writings in the emergent field of the anthropology of media for the first time
Integrates key themes in the anthropology of media by means of editorial commentary
Explores the theoretical issues that have arisen from ethnographic studies of media

offers a critical overview of how mass media represents and constructs both Western and non-Western cultures. Moving beyond earlier anthropological preoccupation with ethnographic film and drawing on the recent explosion of creative studies of culture and media, this volume heralds the emergence of a new field – the anthropology of media – and brings its key literature together for the first time.

Kelly Askew is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Center for Afroamerican and African Studiesat the University of Michigan. She is the author of Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania (2002). Richard R. Wilk is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University. He is the author of several books, including Household Ecology (1991) and Economies and Cultures (1996), as well as over a hundred papers and articles on topics as diverse as Maya archaeology, research ethics, and global consumer culture.

Acknowledgments viii

Timeline of Media Development x

Introduction 1
Kelly Askew

Part I Seeing/Hearing is Believing: Technology and Truth 15

Part II Representing Others 73

Part III Representing Selves 157

Part IV Active Audiences 237

Part V Power, Colonialism, Nationalism 323

Resource Bibliography 394

Index 406

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.1.2002
Reihe/Serie	Blackwell Readers in Anthropology
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	173 x 246 mm
Gewicht	753 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-631-22094-1 / 0631220941
ISBN-13	978-0-631-22094-7 / 9780631220947
Zustand	Neuware