Edmund Carpenter. 
 
Holt Rinehart Winston: 1973.  First edition. Hardcover in a jacket. Octavo. Slight wear along the top of the jacket. A few small stains on the back panel of the jacket. Corners of the boards are bumped. Minor water staining on the top edge of the text block and one stain on the fore edge. 192 pages. Very good. 
 
We've included a DVD. It's the documentary that revisits Carpenter's startling and exuberant idea: mass media has reshaped the imagination of the world's tribal peoples. (Included are backcountry discoveries of high tech toys and a Sepik River tribal initiation in which a crocodile skin pattern is cut into an initiate's skin.) Anthropology in its wildest form, and content meets object with a deserved classic getting a media appendage.  
 
"Electricity has made angels of us all - not angels in the Sunday school sense of being good or having wings, but spirits freed from flesh, capable of instant transportation anywhere. The moment we pick up a phone, we're nowhere in space, everywhere in spirit. Nixon on TV is everywhere at once. That is Saint Augustine's definition of God: a Being whose center is everywhere, whose borders are nowhere. When a clerk stops waiting on us to answer a phone, we accept this without protest, yet it violates one of our most precious values - barbershop democracy. We accept it because pure spirit now takes precedence over spirit in flesh."