Media Worlds Anthropology on New Terrain [Paperback]

This groundbreaking volume showcases the exciting work emerging from the ethnography of media, a burgeoning new area in anthropology that expands both social theory and ethnographic fieldwork to examine the way mediafilm, television, videoare used in societies around the globe, often in places that have been off the map of conventional media studies. The contributors, key figures in this new field, cover topics ranging from indigenous media projects around the world to the unexpected effects of state control of media to the local impact of film and television as they travel transnationally. Their essays, mostly new work produced for this volume, bring provocative new theoretical perspectives grounded in cross-cultural ethnographic realities to the study of media.

Faye D. Ginsburgis David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Media, Culture and History at New York University. She is author of the award-winningContested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community(California, second edition 1998) and coeditor ofConceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction(California, 1995), among other books.Lila Abu-Lughodis Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies at Columbia University and author of the award-winning booksWriting Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories(California, 1993) andVeiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society(California, 1986, 2000), among others.Brian Larkinis Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College, Columbia University.

List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction

I. Cultural Activism and Minority Claims
1. Screen Memories: Resignifying the Traditional in Indigenous Media
Faye Ginsburg
2. Visual Media and the Primitivist Perplex: Colonial Fantasies, Indigenous Imagination, and Advocacy in North America
Harald E.L. Prins
3. Representation, Politl*