The Ethnography of Media

From: Anthropological Quarterly | Date: October 1, 2004| Author: Armbrust, Walter | Copyright information

The Ethnography of Media Lila Abu-Lughod. Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 324 pp.

Lila Abu-Lughod's Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt joins a steadily growing body of ethnographies on the effects of mass media. In this case the focus is mainly on how two communities of womenmaids employed by wealthy, mostly foreign, patrons in Cairo, and rural villagers-respond to narrative genres. The book a...

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