Robert J. Foster is Professor of Anthropology and Mercer Brugler Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Rochester. He is author of Social Reproduction and History in Melanesia and Coca-Globalization: Following Soft Drinks from New York to New Guinea and editor of Nation Making: Emergent Identities in Postcolonial Melanesia.

• Preliminary Table of Contents: AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Everyday Nation Making: The Case of Papua New Guinea1. Take Care of Public Telephones: Moral Education and Nation-State Formation2. Your Money, Our Money, the Government's Money: Finance and Fetishism in Melanesia3. Print Advertisements and Nation Making4. Commercial Mass Media: Notes on Agency, Bodies, and Commodity Consumption5. The Commercial Construction of 'New' Nations6. News of the World: Millenarian Christianity and the Olympic Torch Relay7. Globalization: A Soft Drink PerspectiveNotesReferencesIndex

"Foster shows us how seemingly banal activities like making a phone call, chewing betel nut, watching a Coke commercial may give important insights into the ways in which the nation is constructed, materialized or contested."-Orvar Lofgren, author of On Holiday: A History of Vacationing