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University of Rochester: Rochester, NY, US

2016 to present | Richard L. Turner Professor (Humanities)
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Robert Foster

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University of Chicago: Chicago, IL, US

1981 to 1988 | Ph.D. (Anthropology)
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Funding (10)

The moral and cultural economy of mobile phones in the Pacific

2014-01-01 to 2016-12-31 | Grant
Australian Research Council (Canberra, AU)
URL: https://grants.uberresearch.com/501100000923/DP140103773/The-moral-and-cultural-economy-of-mobile-phones-in-the-Pacific
GRANT_NUMBER: grant.DP140103773
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Central New York Humanities Corridor Award

2013 to 2013 | Award
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (NY, NY, US)
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A Cultural Biography of the P. G. Black Collection of Pacific Islands Artifacts

2011-07-01 to 2012-06-30 | Grant
National Endowment for the Humanities (n/a, US)
URL: https://grants.uberresearch.com/100000103/FA-55803-11/A-Cultural-Biography-of-the-P-G-Black-Collection-of-Pacific-Islands-Artifacts
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Australian National University Vice-Chancellor’s Travel Award for Visiting International Academics

2009 to 2009 | Award
Australian National University (ACT, ACT, AU)
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A Cultural History of the P.G. Black Collection of Pacific Islands Artifacts

2008-07-01 to 2008-08-31 | Grant
National Endowment for the Humanities (n/a, US)
URL: https://grants.uberresearch.com/100000103/FT-55891-08/A-Cultural-History-of-the-P-G-Black-Collection-of-Pacific-Islands-Artifacts
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grant.FT-55891-08
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Robert B. Goergen Award for Distinguished Achievement and Artistry in Undergraduate Teaching

2008 to 2008 | Award
University of Rochester (NY, NY, US)
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Consuming Modernity in Papua New Guinea: An Anthropological Approach to Globalization

2000-01-01 to 2000-12-31 | Grant
National Endowment for the Humanities (n/a, US)
URL: https://grants.uberresearch.com/100000103/FB-35513-99/Consuming-Modernity-in-Papua-New-Guinea-An-Anthropological-Approach-to-Globalization
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Globalization, Modernity and Social Life in Papua New Guinea

1997-05-01 to 1997-09-30 | Grant
National Endowment for the Humanities (n/a, US)
URL: https://grants.uberresearch.com/100000103/FT-42163-97/Globalization-Modernity-and-Social-Life-in-Papua-New-Guinea
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Moral Education and Nation-State Formation in Australia and Papua New Guinea

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The Creation of a National Culture in Papua New Guinea

1990-05-01 to 1990-09-30 | Grant
National Endowment for the Humanities (n/a, US)
URL: https://grants.uberresearch.com/100000103/FT-33455-90/The-Creation-of-a-National-Culture-in-Papua-New-Guinea
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Uneven Connections: A Partial History of the Mobile Phone in Papua New Guinea

2024 | Book
DOI: 10.22459/UC.2024
Contributors: Robert J. Foster
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Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African By Sara Byala Oxford : Oxford University Press , (2023), 366 pp., $37.50 (hardback), ISBN: 9780197758427 (hardback)

The Journal of Development Studies
2024-06-16 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2024.2365040
Contributors: Robert J. Foster
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5G and the digital imagination: Pacific Islands perspectives from Fiji and Papua New Guinea

Media International Australia
2024-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/1329878X231199815
Contributors: Heather A. Horst; Robert J. Foster
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Tenuous Connectivity: Time, Citizenship, and Infrastructure in a Papua New Guinea Telecommunications Network

The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
2023-03-15 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/14442213.2023.2177330
Contributors: Robert J. Foster
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“A Little Out of Temper”: When Lewis Henry Morgan Met Abraham Lincoln

History of Anthropology Review 44
2020 | Journal article
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The Future of Shareholder Activism

Anthropology News
2020-06-25 | Newsletter article
DOI: 10.14506/AN.1447
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The Politics of Media Infrastructure: Mobile Phones and Emergent Forms of Public Communication in Papua New Guinea

Oceania
2020-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/ocea.5241
Contributors: Robert J. Foster
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The Moral Economy of Mobile Phones

Australian Nantional University Press
2018 | Edited book
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Entropy, alchemy and negative pigs: Obviating the matter of wealth

History and Anthropology
2018-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2018.1460601
Part of ISSN: 0275-7206
Contributors: Robert J. Foster
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Art/Artifact/Commodity: Perspectives on the P.G.T. Black Collection

Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural History, Vol. 42, 2015
2017 | Edited book
ISBN: 978-0-944032-00-8
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The Corporation in Anthropology

The Corporation: A Critical, Interdisciplinary Handbook.
2017 | Book chapter
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The Undersea Network

The Journal of Pacific History
2016 | Book review
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Adversaries into Partners? Brand Coca-Cola and the Politics of Consumer-Citizenship

Green Consumption : The Global Rise of Eco-Chic
2014 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.5040/9781474214049.ch-002
Part of ISBN: 9780857855015
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Corporations as Partners: “Connected Capitalism” and The Coca-Cola Company

PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review
2014-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/plar.12073
Part of ISSN: 1081-6976
Contributors: Robert J. Foster
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Things to do with brands

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
2013-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.14318/hau3.1.004
Part of ISSN: 2049-1115
Contributors: ROBERT J. FOSTER
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Managing Modernity in the Western Pacific. Edited by Mary Patterson and Martha Macintyre

The Journal of Pacific History
2012 | Book review
DOI: 10.1080/00223344.2012.723309
Part of ISSN: 0022-3344
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Big men and business: morality, debt and the corporation A perspective by Robert J. Foster

Social Anthropology
2012-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8676.2012.00226.x
Part of ISSN: 0964-0282
Contributors: Robert J. Foster
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Notes for a Networked Biography: The P. G. T. Black Collection of Oceanic Things

Museum Anthropology
2012-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1379.2012.01129.x
Part of ISSN: 0892-8339
Contributors: Robert J. Foster
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Art/Artefact/Commodity: Installation design and the exhibition of Oceanic things at two New York museums in the 1940s

The Australian Journal of Anthropology
2012-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1757-6547.2012.00178.x
Part of ISSN: 1035-8811
Contributors: Robert J. Foster
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Coca-Globalization

The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization
2012-02 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1002/9780470670590.wbeog077
Part of ISBN: 9780470670590
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The Uses of Use Value: Marketing, Value Creation, and the Exigencies of Consumption Work

Inside Marketing
2011 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199576746.003.0003
Part of ISBN: 9780199576746
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The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen

Pacific Affairs
2010 | Book review
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Corporate oxymorons and the anthropology of corporations

Dialectical Anthropology
2009-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10624-009-9126-5
Part of ISSN: 0304-4092
Contributors: Robert J. Foster
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Coca-Globalization

2008 | Book
DOI: 10.1057/9780230610170
Part of ISBN: 9780230603868
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Unstable Images: Colonial Discourse on New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, 1875-1935

The Australian Journal of Anthropology
2008 | Book review
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Show and Tell: Teaching Critical Fetishism with a Bottle of Coke?

Anthropology News
2008-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1525/an.2008.49.4.38
Part of ISSN: 1541-6151
Contributors: Robert J Foster
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Commodities, brands, love and kula

Anthropological Theory
2008-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/1463499607087492
Part of ISSN: 1463-4996
Contributors: Robert J. Foster
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THE WORK OF THE NEW ECONOMY: Consumers, Brands, and Value Creation

Cultural Anthropology
2007-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1525/can.2007.22.4.707
Part of ISSN: 0886-7356
Contributors: ROBERT J. FOSTER
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Author’s Response. Book Review Forum. Materializing the Nation

Pacific Studies
2006 | Book review
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Tracking Globalization: Commodities and Value in Motion

Handbook of Material Culture
2006 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.4135/9781848607972.n19
Part of ISBN: 9781412900393
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From Trobriand cricket to rugby nation: The mission of sport in Papua New Guinea

The International Journal of the History of Sport
2006-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/09523360600673138
Part of ISSN: 0952-3367
Contributors: Robert J. Foster
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Afterword: Frustrating Modernity in Melanesia

The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia: Humiliation, Transformation and the Nature of Cultural Change.
2005 | Book chapter
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Consumer Citizenship, Nationalism, and Neoliberal Globalization in Turkey: The Advertising Launch of Cola Turka

Advertising & Society Review
2005 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1353/asr.2006.0001
Part of ISSN: 1534-7311
Contributors: Derya Ozkan; Robert John Foster
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Commodity futures: Labour, love and value

Anthropology Today
2005-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/j.0268-540x.2005.00366.x
Part of ISSN: 0268-540X
Contributors: ROBERT J. FOSTER
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Negotiating Globalization: Contemporary Pacific Perspectives

Ethnohistory
2005-01-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1215/00141801-52-1-167
Part of ISSN: 0014-1801
Contributors: R. J. Foster
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Bargains with Modernity in Papua New Guinea and Elsewhere

Critically Modern: Alterities, Alternatives, Anthropologies
2002 | Book chapter
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Materializing the Nation: Commodities, Consumption and Media in Papua New Guinea

Indiana University Press
2002 | Book
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Bargains with modernity in Papua New Guinea and elsewhere

Anthropological Theory
2002-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/1469962002002002632
Part of ISSN: 1463-4996
Contributors: Robert J. Foster
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Interview with Myra Stark

Advertising & Society Review
2001 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1353/asr.2001.0007
Part of ISSN: 1534-7311
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Oceania, Sociocultural Overviews: Melanesia

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
2001 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-08-097086-8.12120-8
Part of ISBN: 9780080970875
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Unvarnished Truths: Maslyn Williams and Australian Government Film in Papua and New Guinea

Colonial New Guinea
2001 | Book chapter
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Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa

American Ethnologist
2000-11 | Book review
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2000.27.4.961
Part of ISSN: 0094-0496
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In God We Trust? The Legitimacy of Melanesian Currencies

Money and Modernity: State and Local Currencies in Melanesia
1999 | Book chapter
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Melanesianist Anthropology in the Era of Globalization

The Contemporary Pacific
1999 | Journal article
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The Commercial Construction of ‘New Nations’

Journal of Material Culture
1999-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/135918359900400302
Part of ISSN: 1359-1835
Contributors: Robert J. Foster
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TV Talk in Papua New Guinea: A Search for Policy in a Weak State

Pacific Journalism Review
1998 | Journal article
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Your Money, Our Money, the Government’s Money: Finance and Fetishism in Melanesia

Border Fetishisms: Material Objects in Unstable Places
1998 | Book chapter
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To Remember the Faces of the Dead: The Plenitude of Memory in Southwest New Britain

The Contemporary Pacific
1997 | Book review
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Nation Making

University of Michigan Press
1996 | Edited book
DOI: 10.3998/mpub.13869
Part of ISBN: 9780472105588
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State Ritual: Ethnographic Notes on Voting in the Tanga Islands, Namatanai Electorate, New Ireland Province, June, 1992

The 1992 Papua New Guinea Election: Change and Continuity in Electoral Politics
1996 | Journal article
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