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

Main Author: Foster, Robert John, 1957-
Format: Book
Language:English
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10799748
Table of 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.