Materializing the nation : commodities, consumption, and media in Papua New Guinea /
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| Author / Creator: | Foster, Robert John, 1957- |
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| Imprint: | Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2002. |
| Description: | x, 202 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4754549 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Everyday Nation Making: The Case of Papua New Guinea
- 1. Take Care of Public Telephones: Moral Education and Nation-State Formation
- 2. Your Money, Our Money, the Government's Money: Finance and Fetishism in Melanesia
- 3. Print Advertisements and Nation Making
- 4. Commercial Mass Media: Notes on Agency, Bodies, and Commodity Consumption
- 5. The Commercial Construction of 'New' Nations
- 6. News of the World: Millenarian Christianity and the Olympic Torch Relay
- 7. Globalization: A Soft Drink Perspective
- Notes
- References
- Index
