Materializing the nation : commodities, consumption, and media in Papua New Guinea / Robert J. Foster.

By: Foster, Robert John, 1957-Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bloomington ; Indianapolis, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2002]Copyright date: 2002Description: 1 online resource (216 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780253013613Subject(s): Anthropology -- Papua New Guinea | Ethnopsychology -- Papua New Guinea | Nationalism -- Papua New Guinea | Consumption (Economics) -- Papua New Guinea | Materialism -- Social aspects -- Papua New GuineaGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Materializing the nation : commodities, consumption, and media in Papua New Guinea.DDC classification: 305.8/009953 LOC classification: GN671.N5 | F67 2002Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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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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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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