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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commis- Ansar Dine, 134, 139, 140
sion (ATSIC), 203n16 Appadurai, Arjun, 68n1, 284–285
Aboriginal Australians: anthropologists’ ¤lms ArtScroll Publications, 9–10, 73–87, 87nn1–2,
on, 188–194, 199, 200, 201nn4–5, 202n13; 88nn13,15
civil rights movement of, 196; collaboration Asad, Talal, 68–69n3
with, to produce Fire Ceremony television Ashkenazim, 1, 10, 87n5, 92, 93–94, 99, 108
program, 195–200, 202–203n14, 203n15; Assembly of God, 55, 70n13
and Dreamtime, 193; ¤lm and video proj- Association of Jewish Outreach Profession-
ects of Warlpiri ¤re ceremony of, 2, 14–15, als, 80
190, 191–201; ¤lming of secret ceremonies ATR (African Traditional Religion), 175–177
of, 189; and Howard government, 199, ATSIC (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
203n16; and Jukurrpa (rules governing life), Commission), 203n16
193; protests of, against ¤lming of secret Atwood, Margaret, 152, 159
ceremonies, 189–190; taboos and sanctions Audio cassettes. See Video and audio cassettes
of, concerning media, 189, 194, 195, 197, Aura: Benjamin on, 253, 254–256, 268, 269–
200, 202n11; and television, 196, 198–200; 270, 293; and Ghana’s ¤lm-video industry,
videorecording of Fire Ceremony made 305–306; in public sphere in India, 251–270
by, 194–195; voice of God narration on Australia: Aboriginals in, 2, 14–15, 188–201;
¤lms of, 190, 203n15; and welfare colonial- indigenous public sphere in, 198–201,
ism, 189; and Whitlam Labor government, 203n16; television in, 196, 198–200; Warl-
202n8 piri ¤re ceremony in, 14–15, 190, 191–201,
Adab al-da"wa, 46–47 191, 197, 198; welfare colonialism in, 189;
Advertising: on Egyptian television, 211– Whitlam Labor government in, 202n8
217, 219–220, 222–223n14, 223nn15–16, Australian Film Finance Corporation, 197
224n22; in “®ow” of television, 211–213, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies,
217, 222n10; on India’s television, 258, 265– 188–190, 202n8
267; and marketing research, 213, 222n13;
of Pentecostal-Charismatic churches in Bahia, 65–67, 182n40
Ghana, 297–298, 298; in United States, Baker, Russell, 170, 178–179, 182n39
22n16, 212–213 Al-Banna, Hassan, 31–32, 39–40, 49n3,
Aestheticization of politics, 256 207, 209
Africa: religious freedom in, 168–169, 178; Barker, Joshua, 157, 158, 164n12
Universal Church of the Kingdom of God BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation),
(UCKG) in, 65. See also Ghana; Nigeria; 170, 259
South Africa Beauty pageant of West Africa, 142–143,
African Renaissance movement, 175 148nn26–27
African Traditional Religion (ATR), 175–177 Ben-Gurion, David, 10, 105
Agudat Israel, 9, 74, 75, 79, 81, 85, 87n5 Benjamin, Walter, 195, 253, 254–257, 259, 261,
Ahmad, Fayza, 223n18 268, 269, 270n1, 293, 300, 308
AIDS and HIV, 65, 152 Bible, 301–302
Algeria, 128n20 Blood Brothers, 198
American Hindu Students’ Council, 262 Bobby, 279
Anderson, Benedict, 2–3 Bombay, 277, 280, 281
Anderson, Jon W., 5, 6 Border, 279, 286n18
Ansar al-Din, 134 Bosnian Muslims, 29–30, 39