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Book SynopsisWhether discussing Maori cinema in New Zealand or activist community radio in Colombia, this title describes how native peoples are utilizing both traditional and new media to combat discrimination, to advocate for resources and rights, and to preserve their cultures, languages, and aesthetic traditions.
Trade Review“
Global Indigenous Media is a necessary, urgent, and conceptually brilliant volume. Each essay is a gem. Taken together, they change how one thinks about Indigenous media and they reveal its importance in the transnational media landscapes of the twenty-first century.”—
Patricia R. Zimmermann, author of
States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies“All scholars and practitioners interested in the global Indigenous mediascape will want to have access to this excellent volume packed with original contributions from all over the world.”—
Harald E. L. Prins, former visual anthropology editor,
American Anthropologist, and past president, Society for Visual Anthropology
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Introduction: Indigeneity and Indigenous Media on the Global Stage / Pamela Wilson and Michelle Stewart 1
Part I: From Poetics and Politics: Indigenous Media Aesthetics and Style
1. Imperfect Media and the Politics of Indulgence Video in Latin America / Juan Francisco Salazar and Amalia Cordova 39
2. "Lest Others Speak for Us": The Neglected Roots and Uncertain Future of Maori Cinema in New Zealand / Jennifer Gautheir 58
3. Cache: Provisions and Productions in Contemporary Igloolik Video / Cache Collective 74
4. Indigenous Animation: Educational Programming, Narrative Interventions, and Children's Cultures / Joanne Hearne 89
Part II: Indigenous Activism, Advocacy, and Empowerment Through Media
5. Media as our Mirror: Indigenous Media of Burma (Myanmar) / Lisa Brooten 111
6. Transistor Resistors: Native Women's Radio in Canada and the Social Organization of Political Space from Below / Kathleen Buddle 128
7. Weaving a Communication Quilt in Colombia: Civil Conflict, Indigenous Resistance, and Community Radio in Northern Cauca / Mario A. Murillo 145
8. Outside the Indigenous Lens: Zapatistas and Autonomous Videomaking / Alexander Halkin 160
Part III: Cultural Identity, Preservation, and Community-Building Through Media
9. The Search for Well-Being: Placing Development with Indigenous Identity / Laurel Smith 183
10. "To Breathe Two Airs": Empowering Indigenous Sami Media / Sari Pietikainen 197
11. Indigenous Media as an Important Resource for Russia's Indigenous Peoples / Galina Diatchkova 214
12. Indigenous Minority-Language Media: S4C, Cultural Identity, and the Welsh-Language Televisual Community / Ruth McElroy 232
Part IV: New Technologies, Timeless Knowledges: Digital and Interactive Media
13. Recollecting Indigenous Thinking in a CD-ROM / Priscila Faulhaber and Louis Forline 253
14. Digital Tools and the Management of Australian Aboriginal Desert Knowledge / Michael Christie 270
15. Rethinking the Digital Age / Faye Ginsburg 287
References 307
About the Contributors 335
Index 341
