Anthropology and Mass Communication: Media and Myth in the New Millennium

by Mark Allen Peterson

Book Overview

Anthropological interest in mass communication and media has exploded in the last two decades, engaging and challenging the work on the media in mass communications, cultural studies, sociology and other disciplines. This is the first book to offer a systematic overview of the themes, topics and methodologies in the emerging dialogue between anthropologists studying mass communication and media analysts turning to ethnography and cultural analysis...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571812776
• ISBN13: 9781571812773
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"