"Media and Ethnic Identity carries a Native American perspective to media and its role in ethnic identity construction. This perspective is gained through a case study of the Hopis, who live in northeast Arizona and are known for their devotion to their indigenous culture. The research data is built
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on a number of interviews with Hopis of a variety of ages from nine villages. The study also makes use of the results of a survey of a large number of students in the Hopi Jr./Sr. High School. The framework for examining the research data is intercultural communication (both interpersonal and media-mediated) between an indigenous group and a majority from the viewpoint of the indigenous group. This book provides tools for understanding the experiences of communication between social and political minorities and majorities from the indigenous perspective." (Publisher description)
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"Visual anthropology has proved to offer fruitful methods of research and representation to applied projects of social intervention. Through a series of case studies based on applied visual anthropological work in a range of contexts (health and medicine, tourism and heritage, social development, co
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nflict and disaster relief, community filmmaking and empowerment, and industry) this volume examines both the range contexts in which applied visual anthropology is engaged, and the methodological and theoretical issues it raises." (Publisher description)
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"This report presents the results of the first national qualitative research study into Australian community broadcasting audiences. It explores why a significant and increasing number of Australians listen to community radio and/or watch community television, what they value about it, and how it me
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ets their needs. Community broadcasting in Australia began in the early 1970s with the establishment of the first metropolitan community radio stations. Community television is a comparatively recent development dating from the early 1990s. Today, Australian community radio is a mature industry catering to a wide variety of interests. Our study deals with audiences for ‘generalist’ stations in metropolitan and regional Australia and explores responses from two major interest groups — Indigenous and ethnic communities. Audiences for the nascent community television industry provide a further focus." (Executive summary, page 1)
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"Girlfriend als Teil des afrikanischen Videobooms zeigt, dass die Produktion von Filmen im Videoformat eine Möglichkeit für tansanische Regisseure ist, Filme mit ihren eigenen Themen in ihrer eigenen Sprache für den ostafrikanischen Markt gewinnbringend zu vermarkten. Die Swahili-Videofilme sind
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Teil einer populären Kultur Ost-, wie Westafrikas, die ihre eigenen ästhetischen Maßstäbe setzt. Die in Girlfriend sprachlich artikulierten Themen umfassen sowohl populäre Themen wie die Hip-Hop Kultur, als auch für Tansania eher traditionelle Themen, wie die Probleme des Lebens in der Stadt sowie zwischenmenschliche Konflikte. Der Film gewährt Einblicke in die Heterogenität der Menschen Dar es Salaams, insbesondere in die verschiedenen sozialen Gruppen, wie die der Jugendlichen der Hip-Hop-Szene, der Bürgerlichen, der schicken Akademiker und der einfachen ärmlichen Immigranten aus den ländlichen Gegenden Tansanias. Diese Figuren sind im Film besonders durch ihre sprachlichen Merkmale charakterisiert, die entweder von dem Regisseur oder Autor geplant wurden oder die von den für diese Rollen ausgewählten Darsteller automatisch mitgebracht wurden. Girlfriend ist durch seine Verwendung mehrerer Sprachvarietäten ausgezeichnet und zeigt, welch wichtige Rolle die Sprache und der Dialog in tansanischen Filmen spielt. Die Sprachvarietäten Englisch, Swahili, Kiswahili cha Mitaani und Swahili-Englisch Codeswitching dienen der Einordnung der Figuren in soziale Gruppen und charakterisieren die Figuren des Films." (Zusammenfassung S. 84-85)
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"Die deutsche staatliche Entwicklungszusammenarbeit erkennt die besondere Situation der indigenen Völker an und unterstützt ihre Beteiligung auf verschiedenen Ebenen. Sie geht davon aus, dass eine aktive Beteiligung indigener Völker unverzichtbar ist, um ihre Menschenrechte zu verwirklichen und d
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en sozialen Zusammenhalt in den Gesellschaften zu stärken. Darüber hinaus ist ihre Einbeziehung unerlässlich, um zunehmende Konflikte um Ressourcen und deren Verteilung friedlich zu lösen und eine nachhaltige Entwicklung zu fördern. Insbesondere in Ländern mit hohem indigenen Bevölkerungsanteil können die Millenniums-Entwicklungsziele ohne die Anerkennung der Entwicklungsbeiträge von Indigenen und die konkrete Verbesserung ihrer Lebenssituation nicht erreicht werden. Die deutsche staatliche Entwicklungspolitik wird ihre Zusammenarbeit stärker auf die Rechte, Bedürfnisse und Organisationsprozesse indigener Völker ausrichten. Einerseits werden in einem Querschnittsansatz indigene Völker in allen Vorhaben angemessen einbezogen und ihre Belange berücksichtigt. Andererseits werden indigene Organisationen direkt gefördert, sowohl auf nationaler Ebene als auch länderübergreifend (zum Beispiel Förderung indigener Dachorganisationen). Regionale Schwerpunkte liegen in Ländern und Regionen mit hohem indigenen Bevölkerungsanteil sowie in Lebens- und Kulturräumen von internationaler Bedeutung (zum Beispiel Amazonasraum). Sektorale Schwerpunkte der Förderung sind: Demokratie, Zivilgesellschaft und öffentliche Verwaltung; Management natürlicher Ressourcen und nachhaltige ländliche Entwicklung; Friedensentwicklung und Krisenprävention; sowie soziale Entwicklung." (Zusammenfassung, Seite 3)
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"Indigenous peoples from all corners of the globe continue to struggle for acknowledgement and recognition of their unique visions of water, both at home and in national, regional and international forums. But almost without exception, their voices remain obscured by a mainstream discourse rooted in
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the conception of water as a mere commodity. Water and Indigenous Peoples is based on the papers delivered on the occasion of the Second and the Third World Water Forums (The Hague in 2000 and Kyoto in 2003). It brings to the fore some of the most incisive indigenous critics of international debates on water access, use and management, as well as indigenous expressions of generosity that share community knowledge and insight in order to propose remedies for the global water crisis." (Back cover)
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"From the Taino Indians of the Caribbean, the U’wa of the Amazon rainforest, and the Tunomans and Assyrians of Iraq, to the Tingas and Zapatistas, Native on the Net is a lively and intriguing exploration of how new technologies have enabled these previously isolated peoples to reach new levels of
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communication and community: creating new communities online, confronting global corporations, or even challenging their own native traditions. Featuring case studies ranging from the Artic to the Australian outback, this book addresses important recurrent themes, such as the relationship between identity and place, community, traditional cultures and the nature of the ‘indigenous’." (Publisher description)
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"A collection of 22 papers on the indigenous language press (and other media) in Cameroon, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Uganda, and Zimbabwe, primarily devoted to the activities of African language newspapers and periodicals. Some papers examine the significant and pioneering role religious publications
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– both Christian and Islamic – have played in the development of indigenous languages presses in Africa, while others examine some of the socio-political and economic changes that have greatly affected indigenous language media over the years, and have lead to its demise to some extent. Also included as an Appendix is a paper in Dutch by Honoré Vinck, “Het belang van de periodieke koloniale pers in Afrikaanse talen”, which examines the role of the African language press during colonial days in the Belgian Congo." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2135)
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"One in a series of collections from the Nigerian Book Fair Trust containing the opening addresses, keynote speeches, and papers presented at the Nigeria International Book Fair, held annually since 2002, each fair focusing on a special topic or topics. The fourth collection focuses on the topic “
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Publishing in Indigenous Languages” and indigenous knowledge systems. It contains over 20 contributions, including some of those presented at Eastern and Western zones satellite book fair events. The papers emanating from the workshops held during the regional book fairs are primarily on issues relating to copyright protection and enforcement in Nigeria, rights administration, and the role of reproduction rights organizations." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2124)
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"Even before Robert Flaherty released Nanook of the North in 1922, anthropologists were producing films about the lifeways of native peoples for a public audience, as well as for research and teaching. Ethnographic Film (1976) was one of the first books to provide a comprehensive introduction to thi
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s field of visual anthropology, and it quickly became the standard reference. In this new edition, Karl G. Heider thoroughly updates Ethnographic Film to reflect developments in the field over the three decades since its publication, focusing on the work of four seminal filmmakers—Jean Rouch, John Marshall, Robert Gardner, and Timothy Asch. He begins with an introduction to ethnographic film and a history of the medium. He then considers many attributes of ethnographic film, including the crucial need to present "whole acts," "whole bodies," "whole interactions," and "whole people" to preserve the integrity of the cultural context. Heider also discusses numerous aspects of making ethnographic films, from ethics and finances to technical considerations such as film versus video and preserving the filmed record. He concludes with a look at using ethnographic film in teaching." (Publisher description)
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"This book argues that indigenous modes of communication - for example the oral tradition, drama, indigenous entertainment forms, cultural modes and local language radio - are essential to the societies within which they exist and which create them; and that coupled with newer, or modern forms of co
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mmunication technology such as the internet and digitised information, endogenous modes of communication are paramount to the processes of human development in Africa." (Publisher description)
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