Mark Pedelty

Mark Pedelty is a media ethnographer whose research has involved Mexico, Central America, and the United States. He is the author of War Stories: The Culture of Foreign Correspondents (Routledge 1995), and Musical Ritual in Mexico City: From the Aztec to NAFTA (University of Texas 2004).

Education

Ph.D., M.A., Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

B.A., Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles

Current Research Interests

• Media ethnography
• Music as mass communication

Selected Publications

Pedelty, Mark. (2004). Musical Ritual in Mexico City: From the Aztec to NAFTA. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.

Pedelty, Mark. (2001). Jenny¹s Painting: Multiple Forms of Communication in the Classroom. In Barbara Leigh Smith and John McCann (Eds.), Reinventing Ourselves: Interdisciplinary Education, Collaborative Learning and Experimentation in Higher Education (Pp.230-252). Boston: Anker.

Pedelty, Mark. (1997). The Marginal Majority: Women War Correspondents in the Salvadoran Press Corps Association. Critical Studies in Mass
Communication 14(1): 49-76.

Pedelty, Mark. (1995). War Stories: The Culture of Foreign Correspondents. New York: Routledge. 1995.