Television's interpellation: Heeding, missing, ignoring, and resisting the call for pan-national identity in the Brazilian Amazon

American Anthropologist

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 407-419

  Pace, Richard ^a  

^a MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audience ethnography; Brazilian Amazon; National identity; Television

Indexed keywords

EID: 77349122591     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: 15481433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2009.01151.x     Document Type: Article

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