Research Catalog

Title

Cultural politics and the mass media : Alaska Native voices / Patrick J. Daley and Beverly A. James.

Author

Daley, Patrick, 1950-

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2004.

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Additional Authors

James, Beverly A. (Beverly Ann), 1947-

Description

x, 235 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

• "The book investigates the inextricable connections between indigenous people's profound sense of place, their subsistence cultural practices, and their needs and desires to communicate through community and mass media. It is arranged chronologically, and describes the advent of indigenous media outlets such as the Alaska Fisherman.
• "Through these empirically grounded studies, the authors demonstrate that freedom for indigenous peoples is not only premised on control over their political economy, but also on their capacity to tell their own stories. In so doing, they develop a powerful, historically grounded argument for understanding cultural persistence as a valuable and vital form of self-determination."--Jacket.
• Founded in 1923, it was the territory's first Native-owned-and-operated newspaper and quickly became the voice of Native opposition to commercial fishing interests. Similarly, the authors detail the formation of KYUK-AM in 1971, the first community radio station to program in both the English and Yup'ik languages."

Series Statement

The history of communication

Uniform Title

History of communication.

Alternative Title

Alaska Native voices

Subject

• Alaska Native mass media
• Alaska Native radio stations
• Alaska Natives > Ethnic identity
• Indian mass media > Alaska
• Indian radio stations > Alaska
• Indians of North America > Alaska > Ethnic identity
• Indigenous peoples and mass media > Alaska

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-213) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : Alaska Natives' mass-mediated challenges to Euro-American cultural hegemony -- Missionary voices as the discursive terrain for Native resistance -- How raven gave voice to a talking newspaper : the case of the Alaska fisherman -- Voices of subsistence in the technocratic wilderness : Alaska Natives and the tundra times -- Warming the arctic air : cultural politics and Alaska Native radio -- Whose vision is it anyway? : technology, community television and cultural politics.

ISBN

0252029380 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003024633

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library