Indigenous Media in Mexico

Wortham Erica Cusi Wortham

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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 indigena 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.

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique
• México
• Indigenous peoples
• Media studies
• Mexico

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 23 septembre 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822378273
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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indigenous media in mexico

indigenous media in mexico Culture, Community, and the State

erica cusi wortham Duke University PressDurham & London2013

∫2013 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper$ Designed by Amy Ruth Buchanan Typeset in Arno Pro by Keystone Typesetting, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wortham, Erica Cusi. Indigenous media in Mexico : culture, community, and the state / Erica Cusi Wortham. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8223-5484-0 (cloth : alk. paper) isbn 978-0-8223-5500-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Indigenous peoples and mass media—Mexico. 2. Video recordings—Production and direction— Mexico. 3. Indians of Mexico—Civilization. 4. Indians of Mexico—Government relations. I. Title. f1 219. w 67 2013 323.11—dc23 2013010724

to phillip, ricky, annelies, and emilia, my cherished husband and children, and to my parents, elena and richard wortham—— for their enduring support and encouragement, I dedicate this book to them and to the tenacious individuals whose stories I tell.

Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv

contents

introduction Making Culture Visible: Indigenous Media in Mexico1

part 1 broader contexts for situating video ind{gena

one Global and National Contexts of Video Indígena25 two Inventing Video Indígena: Transferring Audiovisual Media to Indigenous Organizations and Communities58

part 2 indigenous media organizations in oaxaca

three Regional Dimensions: Video Indígena beyond State Sponsorship93 four Dilemmas in Making Culture Visible: Achieving Community Embeddedness in Tamazulapam del Espíritu Santo, Mixe130

part 3 points of comparison

five Revolutionary Indigenous Media: The Chiapas Media Project/ Promedios177 six Conclusions: Indigenous Media on the International Stage207

Notes 223 References 243 Index 261

illustrations

figure i.1‘‘Channel 8—Culture, too, can be seen’’4 figureto focus2.1 Learning 75 figureout for a video exercise2.2 Heading 76 figure2.3 El Pípila’s municipal building77 figurethe final exercise2.4 Discussing 77 figuretitles2.5 Shooting 78 figure3.1 ‘‘¡No a la Presa!’’ Amate drawing125 figureto tequio4.1 Heading 141 figure4.2tv tamixtelevision studio building153 figure4.3dvdcover art171 figureare in Zapatista territory’’5.1 ‘‘You 180 figure5.2 Soraida at the first Chiapas Media Project workshop198 figure6.1Dulce convivencia/Sweet Gathering 211

map2.1 map3.1 map4.1 map5.1

Map of the Centros de Video Indígena79 Sierra Norte and Cajonos regions, Oaxaca95 Mixe District, Oaxaca134 Area of Zapatista rebel territory, Chiapas178