| From Filmmaker Warriors to Flash Drive Shamans: Indigenous Media Production and Engagement in Latin America Contributor(s): Pace, Richard (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0826522122 ISBN-13: 9780826522122 Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press OUR PRICE: $39.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Social Science | Indigenous Studies - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 302.230 |
| LCCN: 2017053890 |
| Series: Vanderbilt Center for Latin American Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.3" W x 8.8" (0.80 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From Filmmaker Warriors to Flash Drive Shamans broadens the base of research on Indigenous media in Latin America through thirteen chapters that explore groups such as the Kayap of Brazil, the Mapuche of Chile, the Kichwa of Ecuador, and the Ayuuk of Mexico, among others, as they engage video, DVDs, photography, television, radio, and the internet. The authors cover a range of topics such as the prospects of collaborative film production, the complications of archiving materials, and the contrasting meanings of and even conflict over embedded aesthetics in media production--i.e., how media reflects in some fashion the ownership, authorship, and/or cultural sensibilities of its community of origin. Other topics include active audiences engaging television programming in unanticipated ways, philosophical ruminations about the voices of the dead captured on digital recorders, the innovative uses of digital platforms on the internet to connect across generations and even across cultures, and the overall challenges to obtaining media sovereignty in all manner of media production. The book opens with contributions from the founders of Indigenous Media Studies, with an overview of global Indigenous media by Faye Ginsburg and an interview with Terence Turner that took place shortly before his death. |
Contributor Bio(s): Pace, Richard: - Richard Pace is a media anthropologist who works with the Kayapó and ribeirinhos (former rubber tappers) from the Brazilian Amazon. He is co-author of Amazon Town TV: An Audience Ethnography in Gurupá, Brazil and author of The Struggle for Amazon Town: Gurupá Revisited. |
