Indigenous Media in Mexico

Culture, Community, and the State

Autor: Wortham, Erica Cusi
Editor: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822354840
eISBN Pdf: 9780822378273
Lloc de publicació: Durham , United States
Any de publicació digital: 2013
Mes: Setembre
Pàgines: 288
DDC: 323.11
Idioma: Anglés

Descripció

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 variations in cultural identity and autonomy based on specific histories of marginalization, accommodation, and resistance.

Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Making Culture Visible: Indigenous Media in Mexico
Part 1. Broader Contexts for Situating Video Indigena
- 1. Global and National Contexts of Video Indígena
- 2. Inventing Video Indígena: Transferring Audiovisual Mediato Indigenous Organizations and Communities
Part 2. Indigenous Media Organizations in Oaxaca
- 3. Regional Dimensions: Video Indígena beyond State Sponsorship
- 4. Dilemmas in Making Culture Visible: Achieving Community Embeddedness in Tamazulapam del Espíritu Santo, Mixe
Part 3. Points of Comparison
- 5. Revolutionary Indigenous Media: The Chiapas Media Project/Promedios
- 6. Conclusions: Indigenous Media on the International Stage
Notes
References
Index