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Indigenous media in Mexico : culture, community, and the state / Erica Cusi Wortham.
LIBRA F1219 .W67 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wortham, Erica Cusi.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indigenous peoples and mass media--Mexico.
- Indigenous peoples and mass media.
- Video recordings--Production and direction--Mexico.
- Video recordings.
- Indians of Mexico--Civilization.
- Indians of Mexico.
- Indians of Mexico--Government relations.
- Civilization.
- Video recordings--Production and direction.
- Mexico.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 265 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- In Indigenous Media in Mexico, Erica Cusi Wortham explores the use of video among indigenous peoples in Mexico as an important component of their social and political activism. Funded by the federal government as part of its "pluriculturalist" policy of the 1990s, video indígena programs became social processes through which indigenous communities in Oaxaca and Chiapas engendered alternative public spheres and aligned themselves with local and regional autonomy movements. Drawing on her in-depth ethnographic research among indigenous mediamakers in Mexico, Wortham traces their shifting relationship with Mexican cultural agencies; situates their work within a broader, hemispheric network of indigenous media producers; and complicates the notion of a unified, homogeneous indigenous identity. Her analysis of projects from community-based media initiatives in Oaxaca to the transnational Chiapas Media Project highlights the variations in cultural identity and autonomy based on specific histories of marginalization, accommodation, and resistance. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction : making culture visible : indigenous media in Mexico
- The global and national contexts of video indígena
- Inventing video indígena : "transferring" audiovisual media to indigenous organizations and communities
- Regional dimensions : video indígena beyond state sponsorship
- Dilemmas in making culture visible : achieving community embeddedness in Tamazulapam del Espíritu Santo, Mixe
- Revolutionary indigenous media : the Chiapas media project/promedios
- Conclusions : indigenous media on the international stage.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822354840
- 0822354845
- 9780822355007
- 0822355000
- OCLC:
- 816512645
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