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Transborder Media Spaces: Ayuujk Videomaking Between Mexico and the US

New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2017), xvii, 336 pp.

Contains illustrations

Series: Anthropology of Media, 7

ISBN 978-1-80073-019-9 (pbk); 978-1-78533-583-9 (ebook)

"Transborder Media Spaces offers a new perspective on how media forms like photography, video, radio, television, and the Internet have been appropriated by Mexican indigenous people in the light of transnational migration and ethnopolitical movements. In producing and consuming self-determined media genres, actors in Tamazulapam Mixe and its diaspora community in Los Angeles open up media spaces and seek to forge more equal relations both within Mexico and beyond its borders. It is within these spaces that Ayuujk people carve out their own, at times conflicting, visions of development, modernity, gender, and what it means to be indigenous in the twenty-first century." (Publisher description)
Introduction: media diversity in an 'indigenous' community-approaches to the dynamics of media spaces, 1
1 Tamazulapam-Los Angeles: media fields of a transnational Ayuujk village, 51
2 Ayuujk audiovisuality today: generating media spaces through practices, 97
3 Mediatization and "our own" spaces for development, 131
4 Communal and commercial audiovisuality and their transnational expansion, 197
5 Tama's media fields and the Pan-American indigenous movement, 261
Conclusion: media spaces of an 'indigenous' community-comunalidad on the move, 295