The Commercial Construction of 'New Nations

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2391385
AutoresJoel Sherzer (0000-0003-4353-956X, University of Rochester, autor de correspondencia), Robert J Foster (University of Rochester)
Año1999
Volumen4
Número3
Páginas263-282
Fecha de publicación1999-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Material Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/135918359900400302
OpenAlexW2441686153
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas37
Referencias citadas12

This article considers the instrumental role of commodity marketing and mass consumption in producing nationality as a dimension of personal and collective identities. It asks: if nation-ness and nationality no longer necessarily refer to political identities, then to what sort of imagined communities, if any, do they refer? It addresses this question in part through a discussion of commercial images from Papua New Guinea, one of the 'new nations' of the South Pacific

Commodity · Consumption (sociology · Dimension (graph theory · Economics · Ethnology · Immigration · Market economy · Nationality · New guinea · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · sort · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Cultural Identity and Heritage · Gender Studies · Law · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies