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Media anthropology / editors, Eric W. Rothenbuhler, Mihai Coman.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthropology in popular culture.
- Anthropology--Computer network resources.
- Anthropology.
- Mass media and anthropology.
- Visual anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 350 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An overview of anthropological approaches to the study of the mass media, this book identifies major concepts, methods & bibliography from current research.
- Contents:
- Cover Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The Promise of Media Anthropology; Part I: Histories and Debates; 2. Media Anthropology: An Introduction; 3. The Profanity of the Media; 4. Proposal for Mass Media Anthropology; 5. Cultural Anthropology and Mass Media: A Processual Approach; Part II: Concepts and Methods; 6. Media Rituals: Beyond Functionalism; 7. Ritual Media: Historical Perspectives and Social Functions; 8. The Emergence of Religious Forms in Television; 9. The Church of the Cult of the Individual; 10. News as Myth: Daily News and Eternal Stories
- 11. News Stories and Myth-the Impossible Reunion?12. News as Stories; 13. Performing Media: Toward an Ethnography of Intertextuality; 14. Audience Ethnographies: A Media Engagement Approach; 15. Picturing Practices: Visual Anthropology and Media Ethnography; Part III: Events, Stories, Activities; 16. The Pope at Reunion: Hagiography, Casting, and Imagination; 17. Ground Zero, the Firemen, and the Symbolics of Touch on 9-11 and After; 18. Myths to the Rescue: How Live Television Intervenes in History; 19. Finding Aids to the Past: Bearing Personal Witness to Traumatic Public Events
- 20. Telling What-a-Story News Through Myth and Ritual: The Middle East as Wild West21. CJ's Revenge: A Case Study of News as Cultural Narrative; 22. Ritualized Play, Art, and Communication on Internet Relay Chat; 23. The Anthropology of Religious Meaning Making in the Digital Age; 24. Weaving Trickster: Myth and Tribal Encounters on the World Wide Web; 25. The Mass Media and the Transformation of Collective Identity: Québec and Israel; Part IV: Theory into Practice; 26. Activist Media Anthropology: Antidote to Extremist Worldviews
- 27. Speaking With the Sources: Science Writers and Anthropologists28. The Journalist as Ethnographer? How Anthropology Can Enrich Journalistic Practice; 29. Journalism Education and Practice; 30. The Public Sphere: Linking the Media and Civic Cultures; Index; About the Editors; About the Authors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781506319704
- 150631970X
- 9781452267203
- 1452267200
- 9781322306988
- 1322306982
- 9781452233819
- 1452233810
- OCLC:
- 809772522
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