Book chapter
Transformations of Indigenous Media: The Life and Work of David Hernández Palmar
From Filmmaker Warriors to Flash Drive Shamans: Indigenous Media Production and Engagement in Latin America, pp.75-95
Vanderbilt University Press
10/22/2018
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv167571w.8
Abstract
Scholars of Indigenous (and other subaltern) media emphasize the many positive impacts that locally controlled new media—especially radio and video—have within communities and the ways that Indigenous peoples productively use media to advance their cultural and political agendas. Numerous studies, in communities stretching from Canada, the US, Australia, and New Zealand, to Mexico, Brazil, and Bolivia, that follow in the wake of Sol Worth and John Adair’s ([1972] 1997) first experiments in “subjectproduced film” repeatedly demonstrate that audio-visual media are powerful instruments for the creative expression of identity, self-reflection, political empowerment, cultural transmission, and the preservation of traditional,
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Transformations of Indigenous Media: The Life and Work of David Hernández Palmar
- Creators
- Laura R. Graham
- Contributors
- Richard Pace (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- From Filmmaker Warriors to Flash Drive Shamans: Indigenous Media Production and Engagement in Latin America, pp.75-95
- DOI
- 10.2307/j.ctv167571w.8
- Publisher
- Vanderbilt University Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/22/2018
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology; International Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9983997097702771
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