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Original Essays | September 9, 2013
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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsIndigenous Media in Mexico: Culture, Community, and the Stateby Erica Cusi Wortham
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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. About the AuthorErica Cusi Wortham is Assistant Research Professor of Anthropology at George Washington University. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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