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

Author/creator Foster, Robert John, 1957-
Format Book
Publication InfoBloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2002.
Descriptionx, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Anthropology--Papua New Guinea.
Ethnopsychology--Papua New Guinea.
Nationalism--Papua New Guinea.
Consumption (Economics)--Papua New Guinea.
Materialism--Social aspects. --Papua New Guinea.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 183-194) and index.
LCCN 2002001480
ISBN0253341477 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0253215498 (pbk. : alk. paper)