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Robert J. Foster
Professor
Mercer Brugler Distinguished Teaching Professor
Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies

Office: Lattimore 436, Telephone: (585) 275-8741
E-mail: RFTR@mail.rochester.edu

CV | Courses | Publications | Research

Books

2008 Coca-Globalization: Following Soft Drinks from New York to New Guinea .  New York: Palgrave/St. Martin's Press.
2002 Materializing the Nation: Commodities, Consumption and Media in Papua New Guinea.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
1995 Social Reproduction and History  in Melanesia: Mortuary Ritual, Gift Exchange and Custom in the Tanga Islands.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1995

Nation Making: Emergent Identities in Postcolonial Melanesia.  Edited Volume.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. (1997, paper edition).

Chapters In Books

2006 "Tracking Globalization: Commodities and Value in Motion." In The Sage Handbook of Material Culture.  Eds. C. Tilley et. al.  London: Sage. Pp. 285-302.
2005 "Afterword: Frustrating Modernity in Melanesia."  In The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia: Humiliation, Transformation and the Nature of Cultural Change. J. Robbins and H. Wardlow, (eds.).  U.K.:Ashgate Publishing. pp. 207-216.        
2002 "Bargains with Modernity in Papua New Guinea and Elsewhere." In Critically Modern: Alterities, Alternatives, Anthropologies.  B. Knauft, (ed.).  Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp. 57-81.
2001 "Oceania, sociocultural overviews: Melanesia." International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Oxford: Elsevier Science Limited.
2001 "Unvarnished Truths: Maslyn Williams and Australian Government Film in Papua and New Guinea." In N. MacPherson, (ed.) In Colonial New Guinea.  Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.  pp. 64-81.
1999 "In God We Trust? The Legitimacy of Melanesian Currencies."  In J. Robbins and D. Akin, (eds.)  Money and Modernity: State and Local Currencies in Melanesia.  Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 214-231. 
1998  "Your Money, Our Money, the Government's Money: Finance and Fetishism in Melanesia."  In Patricia Spyer (ed.) Border Fetishisms: Material Objects in Unstable Places. New York: Routledge. pp. 60-90.
1996 "State Ritual: Ethnographic Notes on Voting in the Tanga Islands, Namatanai Electorate, New Ireland Province, June, 1992."  In Yaw Saffu (ed.) The 1992 Papua New Guinea Election: Change and Continuity in Electoral Politics.  Canberra: Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. pp. 144-167.
1995 "Introduction: The Work of Nation Making."  In  Robert Foster (ed.)  Nation Making: Emergent Identities in Postcolonial Melanesia.
1995 "Nation Making and Print Advertisements in Papua New Guinea."  In Robert Foster (ed.)  Nation-Making: Emergent Identities in Postcolonial Melanesia. (Reprinted in Advertising and Society Review, Issue 1, 2000; Reprinted in Consumption: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences.  Daniel Miller, ed.  London: Routledge, 2001; Reprinted in Globalization and Culture Change in the Pacific Islands. Victoria Lockwood, ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004.)
1993 "Dangerous Circulation and Revelatory Display:  Exchange Practices in a New Ireland Society."  In Jane Fajans (ed.)  Exchanging Products: Producing Exchange.  Sydney: Oceania Monograph Series, No. 43, pp. 15-31.

Articles

2005 "Consumer Citizenship, Nationalism, and Neoliberal Globalization in Turkey: The Advertising Launch of Cola Turka" (Derya Özkan and Robert Foster) Advertising & Society Review 6:3.
2005 "Commodity Futures: Labor, Love and Value." Anthropology Today 21 (4): 8-12.
2005 "Negotiating Globalization: Contemporary Pacific Perspectives."  In M. Kaplan, ed. Outside Gods, Foreign Powers: Making Local History with Global Means in the Pacific, Special Issue, Ethnohistory 52(1):167-77.
2003 Comment. "The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Exchange in Precolonial and Colonial Roviana: Gifts, Commodities and Inalienable Possessions" by S. Aswani and P. Sheppard.  Current Anthropology 44.
2002 "Boys and Their Trading Cards." In Consumers, 1e.  Eric J. Arnould, Linda Price, George Zinkhan.  Boston: McGraw-Hill, p. 682. (Excerpt from Foster and Foster 1994; see Papers Presented).
2002 "Bargains with Modernity in Papua New Guinea and Elsewhere." Anthropological Theory  2(2):233-251.
2001 Interview with Myra Stark, Director of Knowledge Management and Consumer Insights, Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising.  Advertising and Society Review (2)2.
1999 "The Commercial Construction of 'New' Nations."  Journal of Material Culture 4(3):263-282
1999 "TV Talk in Papua New Guinea: A Search for Policy in a Weak State."  Pacific Journalism Review 5 (1):53-78, November 1998/March 1999.
1999 "Melanesianist Anthropology in the Era of Globalization." The Contemporary Pacific.  Vol 11 (1):140-159, February 1999.
1996/97 "Commercial Mass Media in Papua New Guinea: Notes on Agency, Bodies, and Commodity Consumption."  Visual Anthropology Review 12(2):1-17.
1992 "Commoditization and the Emergence of Kastam as a Cultural Category: A New Ireland Case in Comparative Perspective."  In M. Jolly and N. Thomas (eds.)  The Politics of Tradition in the South Pacific, Special Issue, Oceania 62(4): 284-94.
1992 "Take Care of Public Telephones: Moral Education and Nation-State Formation in Papua New Guinea."  Public Culture 4(2): 31-45.
1991 "Making National Cultures in the Global Ecumene."  Annual Review of Anthropology  20: 235-60.  (Chinese translation in Bulletin of Anthropological and Folkloric Research, Institute of Sociology and Anthropology, Peking University, Issues 26-27, September 1996, Beijing, trans. by Yue Mei.)
1990 "Nurture and Force-feeding: Mortuary Feasting and the Construction of Collective Individuals in a New Ireland Society."  American Ethnologist  17(3): 431-448.
1990 "Value Without Equivalence: Exchange and Replacement in a Melanesian Society."  Man  (N.S.) 25(1): 54-69.
1987 "Thick Beyond Description: Ethnography and Culture as Trope."  Review Article on Asiwinarong: Ethos, Image, and Social Power among the Usen Barok of New Ireland, and Symbols That Stand for Themselves by Roy Wagner.  Oceania 58(2): 148-156.
1987 "Komine and Tanga: A Note on Writing the History of German New Guinea."  Journal of Pacific History 12(1): 56-64.
1985 "Production and Value in the Enga Tee."  Oceania 55(3): 182-196.
 
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