Media worlds : anthropology on new terrain / edited by Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, and Brian Larkin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: INTRODUCTION 2 -- I. CULTURAL ACTIVISM AND MINORITY CLAIMS. 1. Screen Memories: Resignifying the Traditional in Indigenous Media -- Faye D. Ginsburg 39 -- 2. Visual Media and the Primitivist Perplex: Colonial Fantasies, Indigenous Imagination, and Advocacy in North America -- Harald E. L. Prins 58 -- 3. Representation, Politics, and Cultural Imagination in Indigenous Video: General Points and Kayapo Examples -- Terence Turner 75 -- 4. Spectacles of Difference: Cultural Activism and the Mass Mediation of Tibet -- Meg McLagan 90 --II. THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF NATION-STATES. 5. Egyptian Melodrama-Technology of the Modern Subject? -- Lila Abu-Lughod zx5 -- 6. Epic Contests: Television and Religious Identity in India -- Purnima Mankekar z34 -- 7. The National Picture: Thai Media and Cultural Identity -- Annette Hamilton 52 -- 8. Television, Time, and the National Imaginary in Belize -- Richard R Wilk 171 -- III. TRANSNATIONAL CIRCUITS. 9. Mass Media and Transnational Subjectivity in Shanghai: Notes on (Re)Cosmopolitanism in a Chinese Metropolis -- Mayfair Mei-hui Yang 189 -- 10. A Marshall Plan of the Mind: The Political Economy of a Kazakh Soap Opera -- Ruth Mandel 201 -- 11. Mapping Hmong Media in Diasporic Space -- Louisa Schein 229 --IV. THE SOCIAL SITES OF PRODUCTION. 12. Putting American Public Television Documentary in Its Places -- Barry Dornfeld 247 -- 13. Culture in the Ad World: Producing the Latin Look -- Arlene Ddvila 264 -- 14. "And Yet My Heart Is Still Indian": The Bombay Film Industry and the (H)Indianization of Hollywood -- Tejaswini Ganti 281 -- 15. Arrival Scenes: Complicity and Media Ethnography in the Bolivian Public Sphere -- Jeff D. Himpele 301 --V. THE SOCIAL LIFE OF TECHNOLOGY. 16. The Materiality of Cinema Theaters in Northern Nigeria -- Brian Larkin 319 -- 17. Mobile Machines and Fluid Audiences: Rethinking Reception through Zambian Radio Culture -- Debra Spitulnik 337 -- 18. The Indian Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Or, What Happens When Peasants "Get Hold" of Images -- Christopher Pinney 355 -- 19. Live or Dead? Televising Theater in Bali -- Mark Hobart 370 -- 20. A Room with a Voice: Mediation and Mediumship in Thailand's Information Age -- Rosalind C. Morris 383.