Dr John Postill

Articles

(in preparation) Dramas, fields, and threads: exploring sociality in a Malaysian cyberdistrict , Ethnos

(in press) Localising the internet beyond communities and networks, New Media and Society.
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(2003) ‘The mediated production of ethnicity and nationalism among the Iban of Sarawak (II), 1977-1997. Borneo Research Bulletin, Vol. 33. [pdf]

(2003) ‘ Knowledge, literacy, and media among the Iban of Sarawak: a reply to Maurice Bloch', in Social Anthropology, Vol 11, no. 1, 79-100.
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(2002) ‘ Clock and calendar time [pdf]: a missing anthropological problem', in Time & Society, 11, 251-270. 

(2002) ‘Using maps and diagrams to teach a region-based anthropology', in Anthropology in Action, Special Issue on the Uses of Visual Methods in the Teaching and Learning of Anthropology, June 2002.

(2002) ‘The mediated production of ethnicity and nationalism among the Iban of Sarawak, 1954-1976' in Borneo Research Bulletin, Vol. 32. 

(1999) ‘The impact of television and radio on rural Iban: an ethnographic report'. Sarawak Development Journal 2 (2): 91-109.

(1998) ‘Little by little, a national subculture is made: the role of modern media in the institutional  transformations of Iban society', in Borneo Research Bulletin 29: 95-128.

(1997) 'Social Significance of Media Among the Iban of Sarawak', in Borneo Research Bulletin 28:156.  

(1996) ‘A Sandinist counterattack in Borneo: a late reply to Derek Freeman' (in Spanish), in Anales del Museo Nacional de Antropologia III: 53-62, Madrid. 

(1994) ‘Making the most of the Media', in Anthropology Today 10 (6).