What is the point of media anthropology?

After long decades of neglect, the anthropological study of media is now booming. The period between 2002 and 2005 alone saw the publication of no less than four overviews of this emerging subfield (Askew and Wilk 2002; Ginsburg et al. 2002; Peterson 2003; Rothenbuhler and Coman 2005) as well as the...

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Published in:Social Anthropology
Main Author: Postill, John
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2009
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8676.2009.00079_1.x