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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bloomington & Indianapolis, Ind. : Indiana University Press, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: 1 online resource (x, 202 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253013613 (electronic bk.)
  • 0253013615 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Materializing the nationDDC classification:
  • 305.8/009953 22
LOC classification:
  • GN671.N5 F67 2002eb
Online resources:
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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