Materializing the nation : commodities, consumption, and media in Papua New Guinea /

Foster, Robert John, 1957-

Materializing the nation : commodities, consumption, and media in Papua New Guinea / Robert J. Foster. - 1 online resource (216 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-194) and index.

Introduction : everyday nation making: the case of Papua New Guinea -- State-sponsored nation making. Take care of public telephones : moral education and nation-state formation. Your money, our money, the government's money : finance and fetishism in Melanesia -- Commercial nation making. Print advertisements and nation making. Commercial mass media : notes on agency, bodies, and commodity consumption. The commercial construction of "new" nations -- Nation making in this era of globalization. News of the world : Millenarian Christianity and the Olympic Torch Relay. Globalization : a soft drink perspective.

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Anthropology--Papua New Guinea.
Ethnopsychology--Papua New Guinea.
Nationalism--Papua New Guinea.
Consumption (Economics)--Papua New Guinea.
Materialism--Social aspects--Papua New Guinea.


Electronic books.

GN671.N5 / F67 2002

305.8/009953