Foster, Robert John,  1957- <br/><br/>
Materializing the nation :  commodities, consumption, and media in Papua New Guinea / 
Robert J. Foster. 
 - Bloomington and Indianapolis, Ind. :  Indiana University Press,  (c)2002. 
 - 1 online resource (x, 202 pages) :  illustrations. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : everyday nation making: the case of Papua New Guinea --  State-sponsored nation making. Take care of public telephones : moral education and nation-state formation. Your money, our money, the government's money : finance and fetishism in Melanesia --  Commercial nation making. Print advertisements and nation making. Commercial mass media : notes on agency, bodies, and commodity consumption. The commercial construction of "new" nations --  Nation making in this era of globalization. News of the world : Millenarian Christianity and the Olympic Torch Relay. Globalization : a soft drink perspective. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780253013613 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Anthropology--Papua New Guinea.<br/>Ethnopsychology--Papua New Guinea.<br/>Nationalism--Papua New Guinea.<br/>Consumption (Economics)--Papua New Guinea.<br/>Materialism--Social aspects--Papua New Guinea.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GN671  / .M384 2002