Interpretando la(s) cultura(s) después de la televisión: sobre el método1

Arguing that Geertz notion of “thick description” needs creative stretching to fit mass-mediated lives, this essay explores the questions and methods appropriate for an anthropology of television. The big questions a multi-sited study of reception, texts, and production of television soap operas in...

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Autor principal: Abu-Lughod, Lila
Formato: Revistas
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador 2006
Acceso en línea:https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/148
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Sumario:Arguing that Geertz notion of “thick description” needs creative stretching to fit mass-mediated lives, this essay explores the questions and methods appropriate for an anthropology of television. The big questions a multi-sited study of reception, texts, and production of television soap operas in Egypt can speak to concern the nature of culture (recognizing its hegemonic or ideological aspects) and cultures (cosmopolitan in unlikely places like village Egypt) in postcolonial postmodernity.