LEARNING OUTCOMES By the end of this section, you will be able to: Broadcast media are, of course, not always grassroots tools of community expression and development. Even outside of the commercial domain, forms of radio and television are produced by…
LEARNING OUTCOMES By the end of this section, you will be able to: The media scholar Marshall McLuhan is famous for his aphorism “the medium is the message” (1964, 23). What he meant by this is that each genre of media has…
LEARNING OUTCOMES By the end of this section, you will be able to: While photography arrests attention with images, the various genres of news media draw people in with narratives about what’s going on in their local communities and the…
LEARNING OUTCOMES By the end of this section, you will be able to: In addition to creating their own visual media, visual anthropologists conduct research on how the people they study produce visual media to represent themselves as well as…
LEARNING OUTCOMES By the end of this section, you will be able to: Although the subfield of media anthropology is relatively new, anthropologists have been incorporating media technologies into their methods of research and ethnographic representation since the early 20th…
LEARNING OUTCOMES By the end of this section, you will be able to: Figure 15.2 Technophiles of the world. Modern communication technologies are widely used in most cultures of the contemporary world. (credit: top left, “Sinaw, Bedouin Woman with Mobile Phone” by…
Figure 15.1 Anas Aremeyaw Anas, an investigative journalist from Ghana, participating in the Global Conference for Media Freedom in London, 2019. He keeps his face hidden during all public appearances in order to protect himself from retaliation. (credit: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development…
Food is a ubiquitous artifact. Found everywhere during all periods of history, it is diverse and symbolic. The study of early human diets is important for understanding the evolution of humans, and archaeologists use various kinds of evidence to determine…
LEARNING OUTCOMES By the end of this section, you will be able to: Globalization of Food Most people, when they think about food, consider it a local, individual choice based on personal preferences and economic possibilities. But food is a…
LEARNING OUTCOMES By the end of this section, you will be able to: Food and Cultural Identity Food travels across cultures perhaps more often and with more ease than any other tradition. Sometimes food carries with it related culinary practices…