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Bridging Two Worlds: Comparing Classical Political Thought and Statecraft in India and China
Oakland, Cal.: University of California Press (2023), xi, 318 pp.
Access Rules: Freeing Data from Big Tech for a Better Future
Oakland, Cal.: University of California Press (2022), 209 pp.
"Access Rules mounts a strong and hopeful argument for how informational tools at present in the hands of a few could instead become empowering machines for everyone. By forcing data-hoarding companies to open access to their data, we can reinvigorate both our economy and our society. Authors Viktor
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Connected: How a Mexican Village Built its Own Cell Phone Network
Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press (2020), xiii, 259 pp.
"This is the true story of how, against all odds, a remote Mexican pueblo built its own autonomous cell phone network – without help from telecom companies or the government. Anthropologist Roberto J. González paints a vivid and nuanced picture of life in a Oaxaca mountain village and the collect
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The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications
Key Guides
Oakland: University of California Press, 4th revised, updated and expanded ed. (2019), xx, 545 pp.
"The Copyeditor’s Handbook has become an indispensable resource both for new editors and for experienced hands who want to refresh their skills and broaden their understanding of the craft of copyediting. This fourth edition incorporates the latest advice from language authorities, usage guides, a
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Sounding Islam: Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World
Oakland, California: University of California Press (2018), xi, 174 pp.
"Sounding Islam provides a provocative account of the sonic dimensions of religion, combining perspectives from the anthropology of media and sound studies, as well as drawing on neo-phenomenological approaches to atmospheres. Using long-term ethnographic research on devotional Islam in Mauritius, P
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Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor
Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press (2016), x, 324 pp.
Preaching Islamic Renewal: Religious Authority and Media in Contemporary Egypt
Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press (2016), xi, 261 pp.
"Preaching Islamic Renewal examines the life and work of Muhammad Mitwalli Sha‘rawi, one of Egypt's most beloved and successful Islamic preachers. His wildly popular TV program aired every Friday for years until his death in 1998. At the height of his career, it was estimated that up to 30 million
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The Cost of Business: Gender Dynamics of Media Labor in Afghanistan
In: Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor
University of California Press (2016), pp. 104-117
"In this chapter I have strived to move beyond the simple neoliberal critique, attempting to consider more closely the specific, concrete impact of American policies on the work of female Afghan media workers. It would be foolish and dishonest to deny that the American-imposed system of media that c
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Sensational Movies: Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana
Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press (2015), xix, 380 pp.
"Tracing the rise and development of the Ghanaian video film industry between 1985 and 2010, Sensational Movies examines video movies as seismographic devices recording a culture in turmoil. Birgit Meyer captures the dynamic process of popular filmmaking in Ghana as a new medium for the imagination
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Representing Mass Violence: Conflicting Responses to Human Rights Violations in Darfur
Oakland: University of California Press (2015), xix, 341 pp.
"How do interventions by the UN Security Council and the International Criminal Court influence representations of mass violence? What images arise instead from the humanitarianism and diplomacy fields? How are these competing perspectives communicated to the public via mass media? Zooming in on the
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Playing to the World's Biggest Audience: The Globalization of Chinese Film and TV
London; Berkeley; Los Angeles: University of California Press (2007), x, 341 pp.
Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain
Berkeley: University of California Press (2002), xvi, 413 pp.
Cross-Cultural Filmmaking: A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos
Berkeley: University of California Press (1997), 555 pp.
"This extraordinary handbook was inspired by the distinctive concerns of anthropologists and others who film people in the field. The authors cover the practical, technical, and theoretical aspects of filming, from fundraising to exhibition, in lucid and complete detail―information never before as
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Black African Cinema
Berkeley et al.: University of California Press (1994), x, 371 pp.
Mexican Cinema: Reflections of a Society, 1896-1988
Berkeley: University of California Press, revised ed. (1989), xviii, 256 pp.
Third World Film Making and the West
Berkeley: University of California Press (1987), xiii, 381 pp.
"This volume is the first fully comprehensive account of film production in the Third World. Although they are usually ignored or marginalized in histories of world cinema," Third World countries now produce well over half of the world's films. Roy Armes sets out initially to place this huge output
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Communications and National Integration in Communist China
Berkeley: University of California Press (1971), 225 pp.
"Although the primary purpose of this study is to define the roles that the mass media play in achieving integration in China, it also serves as an excellent survey of radio, the press, book publishing, and film. In addition it details propagande methods. Appendixes give statistics. Contains notes,
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