By Robert J. Foster
"Foster indicates us how likely banal actions like creating a cell name, chewing betel nut, staring at a Coke advertisement can give vital insights into the ways that the state is developed, materialized or contested."—Orvar Löfgren, writer of On vacation: A historical past of Vacationing
Why, within the present period of globalization, does nationality stay an enormous measurement of private and collective identities? In Materializing the country, Robert J. Foster argues that the contested technique of state making in Papua New Guinea unfolds not just via equipped politics but additionally via mundane engagements with commodities and mass media. He bargains a considerate critique of modern methods to nationalism and intake and an ethnographic viewpoint on constructs of the kingdom present in professional coverage files, letters to the editor, university textbooks, tune lyrics, ads, and different fabrics. This quantity will attract readers attracted to the hyperlinks between nationalism, intake, and media, in Melanesia and elsewhere.
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