THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF MEDIA by Kelly Askew (Editor), Richard R. Wilk (Editor) ( 9780631220930 )

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THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF MEDIA
A READER

By:

Kelly Askew (Editor), Richard R. Wilk (Editor)

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0631220933

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JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD

Pub. date:

29 January, 2002

Series:

Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology

Pages:

432

Description:

* Brings together key writings in the emergent field of the anthropology of media for the first time. * Offers critical overview of how mass media represents and constructs both Western and non--Western cultures. * Integrates key themes in the anthropology of media by means of editorial commentary.

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The Anthropology of Media: A Reader * Brings together key writings in the emergent field of the anthropology of media for the first time* Integrates key themes in the anthropology of media by means of editorial commentary* Explores the theoretical issues that have arisen from ethnographic studies of media offers a critical overview of how mass media represents and constructs both Western and non--Western cultures. Moving beyond earlier anthropological preoccupation with ethnographic film and drawing on the recent explosion of creative studies of culture and media, this volume heralds the emergence of a new field -- the anthropology of media -- and brings its key literature together for the first time.

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