Further Reading
To deepen your understanding of issues and concepts raised this week, consult these sources:
Marcus, George and Michael Fischer. "The Repatriation of Anthropology
as Cultural Critique," Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental
Moment in the Human Sciences, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
(25 pp.)
Peters, John Durham. "Seeing Bifocally: Media, Place, Culture,"
in Gupta and Ferguson, eds, Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical
Anthropology. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.
Gupta, Akhil and J. Ferguson. "Beyond 'Culture': Space, Identity
and the Politics of Difference," in Gupta and Ferguson, eds, Culture,
Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology. Durham: Duke University
Press, 1997.
Spitulnik, Debra. "Anthropology and the Mass Media," in Annual
Review of Anthropology 22, 1993: 293-315. (Available on-line thru J-STOR).
Donald, Stephanie and Michael Keane. "Media in China: New Convergences,
New Approaches," in Donald et al, eds., Media in China: Consumption,
Content and Crisis. New York: Routledge, 2002.
Schnell, James. Perspectives on Communication in China
John Berger Ways of Seeing
Tang, Xiaobing. Chinese Modern : The Heroic and Quotidian (Post-Contemporary
Interventions). Duke UP, April 2000.
Schell, Orville. Discos and Democracy