Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1: Disciplinary Dilemmas: Canons and Orthodoxies 1. So-Called Cultural Studies: Dead Ends and Reinvented Wheels 2. Cultural Studies and Media Studies: Contexts, Coundaries and Politics Part 2: Methodological Matters: Interdisciplinary Approaches 3. Methodological Problems and Research Practices: Opening up the Black Box 4. Visions of the Real: The Ethnographic Arts Part 3: The Geography of Modernity and the Orientation of the Future 5. EurAm, Modernity, Reason and Alterity: After the West? 6. Beyond Global Abstraction: Regional Theory and the Spatialisation of History Part 4: Domesticity, Mediation and the Technologies of 'Newness' 7. Public Issues and Intimate Histories: Mediation, Domestication and Dis-Location 8. Rhetorics of the Technological Sublime: the Paradoxes of Technical Rationality Part 5: Techno-Anthropology: Icons, Totems and Fetishes 9. Television: not so much a Visual Medium, more a Visible Object 10. Magical Technologies: the New, the Shiny and the Symbolic Coda 11. Marvels and Wonders: Modernity, Tradition and Technology