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

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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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