Anthropology and Mass Communication

Anthropology and Mass CommunicationAnthropological 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.

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This chapter describes cultivation of vegetables using the no-tillage cultivation system developed in Brazil (SPDH+: Sistema de Plantio Direto de Hortaliças)

and people’s choices of “traditional” (local) medicine (plants and sacrifices)

and how they experience less successful vocational outcomes than their disabled male or nondisabled female peers upon leaving school

the first staff political cartoonist on a daily newspaper in Britain

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and advancements in simulations and clinical teaching

Looks at how the Anglican Church coped with mass migration from Britain in the first half of the nineteenth century

Examines repair as a dynamic social

Make it easier to perform basic daily living tasks

Interrogating the Christian preoccupation with a superseded Jewish past