Debra Spitulnik

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Emory University
dspitul@emory.edu

404 727-3651

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Selected Publications

2007 "Radio Talk Shows."  In International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition.  Macmillan Reference/Thomson.

2007"Media:  Radio and TV."  In New Encyclopedia of Africa, 2nd edition.  Scribners/The Gale Group.

2005   "Claiming Media Anthropology: The Minefield of Disciplinary Essentialism and Scholarly Agenda-Setting."  Comment on "Media Anthropology: An Overview" by Mihai Coman.  European Association of Social Anthropologists Media Anthropology Network, e-seminar.

2004 "Electronic Media and Oral Traditions."  In African Folklore:  An Encyclopedia.  P. M. Peek and K. Yankah, eds.  Pp. 109-113. New York and London:  Routledge.

2004    "Radio and Television Drama."  In African Folklore:  An Encyclopedia.  P. M. Peek and K. Yankah.  Pp. 385-386.  New York and London: Routledge.

2003    "Behind the Microphone."  In Personal Encounters in Anthropology:  An Introductory Reader.  L. Walbridge and A. Sievert, eds.  Pp. 185-192.  New York:  McGraw-Hill.

2002    "Alternative Small Media and Communicative Spaces." In Media and Democracy in Africa .G. Hyden, M. Leslie, and F. F. Ogundimu, eds.  Pp. 177-205. New Brunswick (NJ) and London: Transaction.

2002    "Accessing 'Local' Modernities: Reflections on the Place of Linguistic Evidence in Ethnography." In Critically Modern: Alterities, Alternatives, Anthropologies.  B. Knauft, ed.  Pp. 194-219.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

2002    "Mobile Machines and Fluid Audiences:  Rethinking Reception through Zambian Radio Culture."  In Media Worlds:  Anthropology on New Terrain. F. Ginsburg, L. Abu-Lughod, and B. Larkin, eds.  Pp. 337-354.  Berkeley and Los Angeles:  University of California Press. 

2000    "Documenting Radio Culture as Lived Experience:  Reception Studies and the Mobile Machine in Zambia."  In African Broadcast Cultures:  Radio in Transition.  R. Fardon and G. Furniss, eds.  Pp. 144-163.  Oxford: James Currey.  Westport, CT:  Praeger.

1999    "Media."  Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 9(1-2):148-151.  Special issue on "Lexicon for the New Millennium."  A. Duranti, ed. 

1999/98  "Mediated Modernities: Encounters with the Electronic in Zambia."  Visual Anthropology Review 14(2):63-84. 

1998    "Mediating Unity and Diversity: The Production of Language Ideologies in Zambian Broadcasting." In Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory. B. Schieffelin, K. Woolard, and P. Kroskrity, eds.  Pp. 163-188.  Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

1998    "The Language of the City: Town Bemba as Urban Hybridity."Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 8(1):30-59.  Link to discourse examples.

1996    "The Social Circulation of Media Discourse and the Mediation of Communities."Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 6(2):161-187.

1993    "Anthropology and Mass Media."  In Annual Review of Anthropology 22:293-315. 

1988 "Levels of Semantic Structuring in Bantu Noun Classification."  In Current Approaches to African Linguistics, Volume 5.  R. Botne and P. Newman, eds.  Pp. 207-220.  Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Foris.

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