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Indigenous Media in Mexico: Culture, Community, and the State

Indigenous Media in Mexico: Culture, Community, and the State

Wortham, Erica Cusi

Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral SociologyIndigenous Studies

ISBN10: 0822355000
ISBN13: 9780822355007
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Sep 23 2013
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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.

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