Illustrations  ix

Preface  xi

Acknowledgments  xv

Introduction. Making Culture Visible: Indigenous Media in Mexico  1

Part 1. Broader Contexts for Situating Video Indígena  

1. Global and National Contexts of Video Indígena  25

2. Inventing Video Indígena: Transferring Audiovisual Media to Indigenous Organizations and Communities  58

Part 2. Indigenous Media Organizations in Oaxaca  

3. Regional Dimensions: Video Indígena beyond State Sponsorship  93

4. Dilemmas in Making Culture Visible: Achieving Community Embeddedness in Tamazulapam del Espíritu Santo, Mixe  130

Part 3. Points of Comparison  

5. Revolutionary Indigenous Media: The Chiapas Media Project/Promedios  177

6. Conclusions: Indigenous Media on the International Stage  207

Notes  223

References  243

Index  261

"This terrific book will make key contributions to several fields as an account of the fascinating, diverse histories of the emergence of indigenous video, including the remarkable experience of transformation in Mexico from its origins as a state-controlled project to distinct local expressions of cultural autonomy and resistance."—Charles R. Hale, author of Más Que un Indio (More Than an Indian): Racial Ambivalence and Neoliberal Multiculturalism in Guatemala

"Indigenous Media in Mexico is a landmark work, showing us the political and aesthetic creativity of video indígena that emerged, beginning in the 1990s, out of local communities in Oaxaca and Chiapas, eventually becoming part of a broader transnational circuit of indigenous collective self-expression, helping to establish a lively alternative public sphere. Erica Cusi Wortham's meticulous, long-standing, collaborative research has yielded rich insights into the worlds of these indigenous cultural activists and their complex relationships to the Mexican government and the national imaginary."—Faye Ginsburg, Director of the Center for Media, Culture, and History at New York University

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