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Subject: [Medianthro] New Book: Global Indigenous Media:
Available June 2008
Global Indigenous Media:
Cultures, Poetics, and Politics
Pamela Wilson and Michelle Stewart, editors
In this exciting interdisciplinary collection, scholars, activists, and
media producers explore the emergence of Indigenous media: forms of media
expression conceptualized, produced, and/or 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
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. 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 broadcasting, Internet sites, 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
of 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 the creation of a CD-ROM featuring 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 “the digital age” and claims that it has arrived.
Taken 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 L. Gauthier, Faye Ginsburg, Alexandra Halkin, Joanna
Hearne, Ruth McElroy, Mario A. Murillo, Sari Pietikäinen, Juan Francisco
Salazar, Laurel Smith, Michelle Stewart, Pamela Wilson
Pamela Wilson is Associate Professor of Communication
at Reinhardt College in Waleska, Georgia. Michelle Stewart is Associate
Professor and Coordinator of Cinema Studies at the State University of New
York, Purchase.
June 2008. 360 pages, 30 illustrations
978-0-8223-4308-0, paper $24.95
978-0-8223-4291-5, library cloth $89.95
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For further information please contact:
Dr. Sigurjon Hafsteinsson
University of Iceland
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