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The Anthropology of Media : A Reader, Hardback Book

The Anthropology of Media : A Reader Hardback

Edited by Kelly (University of Michigan) Askew, Richard R. (Indiana University) Wilk

Part of the Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology series

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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 timeIntegrates key themes in the anthropology of media by means of editorial commentaryExplores 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.

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