Includes bibliographical references (p. [394]-405) and index
Contents:
The medium is the message / Marshall McLuhan -- The technology and the society / Raymond Williams -- On the use of the camera in anthropology / Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson -- The ambiguity of the photograph / John Berger -- Save, save the lore / Erika Brady -- The gaze of western humanism / James C. Faris -- The color of sex: postwar photographic histories of race and gender / Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins -- The imperial imaginary / Ella Shohat and Robert Stam -- Complicities of style / David MacDougall -- Hollywood and the USA / Hortense Powdermaker -- Yoruba photography: how the Yoruba see themselves / Stephen F. Sprague -- Relationships / Daniel Miller and Don Slater -- Mediating culture: indigenous media, ethnographic film, and the production of identity / Faye Ginsburg -- Radio texture: between self and others / Jo Tacchi -- The Tongan tradition of going to the movies / Elizabeth Hahn -- Rambo's wife saves the day: subjugating the gaze and subverting the narrative in a Papua New Guinean swamp / Don Kulick and Margaret Willson -- "It's destroying a whole generation": television and moral discourse in Belize / Richard R. Wilk -- National texts and gendered lives: an ethnography of television viewers in a north Indian city / Purnima Mankekar -- Image-based culture: advertising and popular culture / Sut Jhally -- The global and the local in international communications / Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi -- Media and cultural politics in Nicaragua, 1920-1956 / David E. Whisnant -- The objects of soap opera: Egyptian television and the cultural politics of modernity / Lila Abu-Lughod