KELLY ASKEW and RICHARD WILK (eds.), The Anthropology of Media: A Reader. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002, 416 p.
I have been teaching an undergraduate "culture and media" course for seven years, and in the first class I tell students that media have not yet been recognized as a legitimate subfield of anthropological research, despite the growing evidence of anthropologists developing important arguments about media and its place in social life. I have always found this ...