Materializing the Nation

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Foster shows us how seemingly banal activities like making a phonecall, chewing betel nut, watching a Coke commercial may give important insights intothe ways in which the nation is constructed, materialized or contested." --Orvar L fgren, author of On Holiday: A History ofVacationingWhy, in the current era of globalization, doesnationality remain an important dimension of personal and collective identities? InMaterializing the Nation, Robert J. Foster argues that the contested process ofnation making in Papua New Guinea unfolds not only through organized politics butalso through mundane engagements with commodities and mass media. He offers athoughtful critique of recent approaches to nationalism and consumption and anethnographic perspective on constructs of the nation found in official policydocuments, letters to the editor, school textbooks, song lyrics, advertisements, andother materials. This volume will appeal to readers interested in the links amongnationalism, consumption, and media, in Melanesia and elsewhere.

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