Kulick, Don (author) and Willson, Margaret (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
Papua New Guinea
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00876
Notes:
Pages 270-285 in Kelly Askew and Richard R. Wilk (eds.), The anthropology of media: a reader. Blackwell Readers in Anthropology. Blackwell Publishers Inc., Malden, Massachusetts. 416 pages., Describes how village residents interpret and react to Western-made films.
From a conference of this title at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, in June 2001. Includes six views of the culture clash between the traditional Old Orders and the modern media of mass communication. Presenters and their topics included the following: Thomas W. Cooper, "The Amish, Old Orders, and media: a report on the conference;" Tamara L. Gillis, "When cultures clash: reporting on a sensational story within a community of faith;" Donald B. Kraybill, "Culture clash: the Amish and the media;" Ann Rodgers-Melnick, "Don't say 'cult': reporting on minority religions;" Diane Zimmerman Umble, "Collisions of culture: covering the death of an Amish child;" and Robert Rhodes, "Communal concerns about the media." Use title search or author search for full citation of each.
About a conference, The Amish, Old Orders and the Media, at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, in June 2001. One of six papers related to the culture clash between the traditional Old Orders and the modern media of mass communication.
