Delocalized Ethnographies. Rethinking the Community from the Anthropology of the Indigenous Media

  • Francisco M. Gil García Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Keywords: comunicación indígena; método etnográfico; etnografía virtual; comunidad

Abstract

The community always constituted a first order concept both for anthropological reflection, and especially for the exercise of ethnography: localized, contextualized, encapsulated communities. However, modernity has generated variants of community that have delocalized an a priori objective concept, and have turned it into something subjective based on identification and the feeling of belonging. This paper reviews the concept of community in the framework of an anthropology of the indigenous media, proposing a methodological game between the local and the global, the heterogeneous and the homogeneous, the alternative and the hegemonic. A game that constitutes a challenge for the practice of a delocalized ethnography and rather focused on communities of listeners and media landscapes.

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Published
2020-09-28
How to Cite
Gil García F. M. (2020). Delocalized Ethnographies. Rethinking the Community from the Anthropology of the Indigenous Media. Revista Española de Antropología Americana, 50, 253-264. https://doi.org/10.5209/reaa.70422