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  • Acknowledgments  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
  • Pamela Wilson

    Michelle Stewart

    Juan F. Salazar

    Jennifer Gauthier

    Joanna Hearne

    Lisa Brooten

    Kathleen Buddle

    Mario Alfonso Murillo

    Alex Halkin

    Laurel C. Smith

    Sari Pietikäinen

    Galina Diatchkova

    Ruth McElroy

    Priscila Faulhaber

    Louis Forline

    Michael Christie

    Faye Ginsburg

  • “Global Indigenous Media is certainly an important contribution to knowledge regarding Indigenous media, and I do not hesitate to recommend it strongly to scholars in relevant areas of study.”—Ross Watson, M/C Reviews

    “Global indigenous Media is a remarkably eclectic and timely group of essays that are presented and arranged into a fascinating collection with a thorough and insightful introduction by the editors Wilson and Stewart. This book will be of significance to ethnographers and anthropologists with interests in the scholarship and practice of indigenous media, visual anthropology, communications and media studies, as well as indigenous artistic practice and production, to name only some of the fields on which this collection touches.—Paul Wolfram, Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology

    “[T]he collection successfully contributes to our understandings of Indigenous
    mass mediations, both as a diverse range of products and processes. . . . [T]he strongest essays in Global Indigenous Media should remind all communication and media scholars that they should be reading about Indigenous media experiences.”—Vicki Mayer, Global Media and Communication

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  • “Global Indigenous Media is certainly an important contribution to knowledge regarding Indigenous media, and I do not hesitate to recommend it strongly to scholars in relevant areas of study.”—Ross Watson, M/C Reviews

    “Global indigenous Media is a remarkably eclectic and timely group of essays that are presented and arranged into a fascinating collection with a thorough and insightful introduction by the editors Wilson and Stewart. This book will be of significance to ethnographers and anthropologists with interests in the scholarship and practice of indigenous media, visual anthropology, communications and media studies, as well as indigenous artistic practice and production, to name only some of the fields on which this collection touches.—Paul Wolfram, Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology

    “[T]he collection successfully contributes to our understandings of Indigenous
    mass mediations, both as a diverse range of products and processes. . . . [T]he strongest essays in Global Indigenous Media should remind all communication and media scholars that they should be reading about Indigenous media experiences.”—Vicki Mayer, Global Media and Communication

  • “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

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  • Description

    In this exciting interdisciplinary collection, scholars, activists, and media producers explore the emergence of Indigenous media: forms of media expression conceptualized, produced, and created by Indigenous peoples around the globe. Whether discussing Maori cinema in New Zealand or activist community radio in Colombia, the contributors describe how native peoples use both traditional and new media to combat discrimination, advocate for resources and rights, and preserve their cultures, languages, and aesthetic traditions. By representing themselves in a variety of media, Indigenous peoples are also challenging misleading mainstream and official state narratives, forging international solidarity movements, and bringing human rights violations to international attention.

    Global Indigenous Media addresses Indigenous self-representation across many media forms, including feature film, documentary, animation, video art, television and radio, the Internet, digital archiving, and journalism. The volume’s sixteen essays reflect the dynamism of Indigenous media-making around the world. One contributor examines animated films for children produced by Indigenous-owned companies in the United States and Canada. Another explains how Indigenous media producers in Burma (Myanmar) work with NGOs and outsiders against the country’s brutal regime. Still another considers how the Ticuna Indians of Brazil are positioning themselves in relation to the international community as they collaborate in creating a CD-ROM about Ticuna knowledge and rituals. In the volume’s closing essay, Faye Ginsburg points out some of the problematic assumptions about globalization, media, and culture underlying the term “digital age” and claims that the age has arrived. Together the essays reveal the crucial role of Indigenous media in contemporary media at every level: local, regional, national, and international.

    Contributors: Lisa Brooten, Kathleen Buddle, Cache Collective, Michael Christie, Amalia Córdova,
    Galina Diatchkova, Priscila Faulhaber, Louis Forline, Jennifer Gauthier, Faye Ginsburg, Alexandra Halkin, Joanna Hearne, Ruth McElroy, Mario A. Murillo, Sari Pietikäinen, Juan Francisco Salazar,
    Laurel Smith, Michelle Stewart, Pamela Wilson

    About The Author(s)

    Pamela Wilson is Associate Professor of Communication at Reinhardt College in Waleska, Georgia.

    Michelle Stewart is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at Purchase College, State University of New York.
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