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The Anthropology of Media: A Reader

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

ISBN: 978-0-631-22094-7

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432 pages

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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.