Chapter 1: The Promise of Media Anthropology Part I: Histories and Debates
Chapter 2: Media Anthropology: An Introduction Chapter 3: The Profanity of the Media Chapter 4: Proposal for Mass Media Anthropology Chapter 5: Cultural Anthropology and Mass Media: A Processual Approach Part II: Concepts and Methods
Chapter 6: Media Rituals: Beyond Functionalism Chapter 7: Ritual Media: Historical Perspectives and Social Functions Chapter 8: The Emergence of Religious Forms in Television Chapter 9: The Church of the Cult of the Individual Chapter 10: News as Myth: Daily News and Eternal Stories Chapter 11: News Stories and Myth—the Impossible Reunion? Chapter 12: News as Stories Chapter 13: Performing Media: Toward an Ethnography of Intertextuality Chapter 14: Audience Ethnographies: A Media Engagement Approach Chapter 15: Picturing Practices: Visual Anthropology and Media Ethnography Part III: Events, Stories, Activities
Chapter 16: The Pope at Reunion: Hagiography, Casting, and Imagination Chapter 17: Ground Zero, the Firemen, and the Symbolics of Touch on 9-11 and after Chapter 18: Myths to the Rescue: How Live Television Intervenes in History Chapter 19: Finding Aids to the Past: Bearing Personal Witness to Traumatic Public Events Chapter 20: Telling What-a-Story News Through Myth and Ritual: The Middle East as Wild West Chapter 21: CJ's Revenge: A Case Study of News as Cultural Narrative Chapter 22: Ritualized Play, Art, and Communication on Internet Relay Chat Chapter 23: The Anthropology of Religious Meaning Making in the Digital Age Chapter 24: Weaving Trickster: Myth and Tribal Encounters on the World Wide Web Chapter 25: The Mass Media and the Transformation of Collective Identity: Québec and Israel Part IV: Theory into Practice
Chapter 26: Activist Media Anthropology: Antidote to Extremist Worldviews Chapter 27: Speaking with the Sources: Science Writers and Anthropologists Chapter 28: The Journalist as Ethnographer?: How Anthropology Can Enrich Journalistic Practice Chapter 29: Journalism Education and Practice Chapter 30: The Public Sphere: Linking the Media and Civic Cultures