Developing Alternative Media Traditions in Nepal

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Chautari Book Series 56

Writer: Michael Wilmore
Publisher: Martin Chautari
First Published: 2009
Page 241+, Rs. 500
ISBN: 978-9937-8194-1-1

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Himal South Asian, Vol. 23, No. 3

Developing Alternative Media Traditions in Nepal examines how these innovative media came about and the many obstacles their producers faced when attempting to speak of and to their own community. The book is based on long-term ethnographic research in Nepal in the mid-1990s and subsequent accounts of the continuing development of Tansen’s community media organizations. Micheal Wilmore offers a unique perspective on how people in developing nations use mass media. This book is one of the first full-length, detailed accounts in English of new media developments in Nepal and is suitable for advanced students and researchers of anthropology and media studies.

Michael Wilmore is a lecture in the Discipline of Media at the University of Adelaide.

Table of contents

List of Tables ix
List of Abbreviations xi
Preface xiii

1.     Introduction: How Television Came to Tansen 1
2.     Conceptualizing Media Outside the Mainstream 27
3.     Communication for Development: Nepal’s Media Revolution 63
4.     The Rise and Fall of a Hill Town 91
5.     Diversity and Distinction: The People of Tansen 119
6.     Community, Development and Empowerment  159
7.     Televising Tradition: The Mediation of Culture  187
8.     Conclusion: Our People 205

Bibliography  215
Index 233
About the Author 241

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