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"Foster shows us how seemingly banal activities like making a phone call, chewing betel nut, watching a Coke commercial may give important insights into the ways in which the nation is constructed, materialized or contested."--Orvar Lfgren, author of On Holiday: A History of Vacationing

Why, in the current era of globalization, does nationality remain an important dimension of personal and collective identities? In Materializing the Nation, Robert J. Foster argues that the contested process of nation making in Papua New Guinea unfolds not only through organized politics but also through mundane engagements with commodities and mass media. He offers a thoughtful critique of recent approaches to nationalism and consumption and an ethnographic perspective on constructs of the nation found in official policy documents, letters to the editor, school textbooks, song lyrics, advertisements, and other materials. This volume will appeal to readers interested in the links among nationalism, consumption, and media, in Melanesia and elsewhere.

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Title Materializing the Nation: Commodities, Consumption, and Media in Papua New Guinea
Author Robert J. Foster
Binding Hardback
Pages 216
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Indiana University Press
Publication date October 2002
Illustrated Yes
ISBN 9780253341471 / 0253341477
Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
Dimensions 9.76 x 6.36 x 0.78 in (24.79 x 16.15 x 1.98 cm)
Category Archaeology / Anthropology
Library of Congress subjects Anthropology - Papua New Guinea, Ethnopsychology - Papua New Guinea
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2002001480
Dewey Decimal Code 305.800

About the author

Robert J. Foster is Professor of Anthropology and Mercer Brugler Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Rochester. He is author of Social Reproduction and History in Melanesia and Coca-Globalization: Following Soft Drinks from New York to New Guinea and editor of Nation Making: Emergent Identities in Postcolonial Melanesia.

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