A Landscape of Respect Relations: Television, Status, Houses

Halstead, Narmala

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“…With images of comfortably seated parents and children before television sets within prettily furnished living rooms, the small screen has been associated with the modern lifestyles of the urban middle-class nuclear family for decades (Bryce and Leichter 1983; Chambers 2016; Church et al, 2010; Halstead 2009; Holloway and Green 2008; Morley 1992). Deviations from these idealized images are often associated with dysfunctional households of absent parents and unsupervised children (Davis et al 2004; de Mediros et al 2009; Livingstone 2009; Zoeller 2009).…”

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Skeuomorphic Domestic Television’s Analog Divide: Television and Social Stratification in Singapore

Khiun¹,

Lin

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2019

Television & New Media

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Through the ethnographic survey of the ownership, use, and display of television-related devices of forty households in Singapore, this article frames the concept of Skeuomorphic Domestic Television. This term describes the continued centrality of the traditional “living room television” amid digital media’s portability. Results from the stocktaking of the ownership of television-related devices in the surveyed households point to the narrowing of the digital divide arising from the greater affordability of media technologies. However, within the highly densely populated city-state, it was found that social distinctions from television cultures were maintained in the skeuomorphic luxury of the “TV-Sofa space” in living rooms of surveyed households. Such a space that distinguishes individuals watching television in cluttered rooms against the more communal viewing practices in designated spacious living rooms characterizes the “Analog Spatial Divide” of skeuomorphic domestic television cultures.

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Skeuomorphic Domestic Television’s Analog Divide: Television and Social Stratification in Singapore

Khiun¹,

Lin

Leng³

2019

Television & New Media

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“…The issue of status (see Halstead ) draws on Chandra Jayawardena's () work on eyepass (to insult or lower someone's standing) and considers Brackette Williams’ () discussion of deferential categories in Guyana. Concern to avoid eyepass emphasizes public equality rather than deference.…”

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“…Early research focused on rural residents; some appeared poor. However, remittances, temporary migrant work, multiple self‐employed activities, benefits from departing relatives, for instance, and related factors affect the category of “poor.” By the 2000s, for instance, an extended family in “Better Prospects” had moved from a small house to several large new buildings they describe as mansions (see also Halstead , , ).…”

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Gift Practices in Guyanese East Indian Diaspora: Belonging, Loss, and Status

Halstead¹

2011

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R e s u m e n La población Indo-Guyanesa en Guyana y New York, intercambia regalos como parte de una ideología del dar sin recibir, la cual, no obstante, se encuentra inmersa en las representaciones de status social. Esta noción india del regalo se está viendo desplazada por los cambios relacionados con la emigración de Guyana: elénfasis en el amor y el deber es cambiado por demostraciones de status más obvias y por la pérdida explícita de relaciones. Este artículo resalta un escenario interactivo de las prácticas del regalar y de emigración, donde las personas continúan dando en una modalidad de amor, pero donde también deben enfrentar la distancia y la separación de su familia cercana. El regalo expresa cómo el hogar está constituido en una localidad extendida donde la pérdida está representada o alterada a través de una concentración en el status social. A b s t r a c tGuyanese East Indians in Guyana and New York exchange gifts as part of an ideology of giving without receiving, which is nevertheless embedded in status performances. Changes in relation to ongoing outward migration from Guyana displace this Indian notion of the gift. However, the emphasis on love and duty is shifted through both displays of status and an explicit loss of relationships. Some East Indians are perceived to "become big," where they forget how to be Indian in a particular context and, thus, allow other aspects of their identities to dominate. They are seen to focus on being knowledgeable and competent in relation to the foreign rather than being particular persons who give without needing to receive. This article brings out a processual setting of gifting practices and outward migration where people continue to give in a mode of love, but have also to deal with distance and separation from close family members. The

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East Indians as Familiars and Partial Others in New York

Halstead¹

2012

History and Anthropology

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A Landscape of Respect Relations: Television, Status, Houses

Cited by 6 publications

References 16 publications

Skeuomorphic Domestic Television’s Analog Divide: Television and Social Stratification in Singapore

Skeuomorphic Domestic Television’s Analog Divide: Television and Social Stratification in Singapore

Gift Practices in Guyanese East Indian Diaspora: Belonging, Loss, and Status

East Indians as Familiars and Partial Others in New York

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