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Fiesta Videos: ‘Home’ and Productive Nostalgia Between Oaxaca and California
Sociologus ( IF 0.429 ) Pub Date : 2017-12-01 , DOI: 10.3790/soc.67.2.131
Ingrid Kummels 1
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Abstract This article explores the spaces and temporalities of belonging that emerge from fiesta videos produced, circulated and consumed between Oaxaca and California. Fiesta videos, which depict festivities in the Mexican hometown, are an innovative popular film genre that people from Ayuujk (Mixe) villages of the Oaxacan Sierra Norte have created for their own purposes of transnational community building in the course of their migration to the United States. I examined the spaces and temporalities of belonging that emerge from fiesta videos by conducting multi-sited ethnographic research in Tamazulapam Mixe, Mexico, and in Los Angeles, USA, between 2012 and 2016. Fieldwork basically consisted in accompanying actors during their daily life and media practises. The actor-centred approach shows how transnational affiliations which seek to overcome the restrictive border and US policies towards migration from Latin America are established in diversified and often indirect ways. Actors whose life courses en...

中文翻译:

嘉年华视频:瓦哈卡和加利福尼亚之间的“家”和富有成效的怀旧

摘要 本文探讨了从瓦哈卡州和加利福尼亚州之间制作、传播和消费的节日视频中出现的归属感的空间和时间性。描述墨西哥家乡庆祝活动的嘉年华视频是一种创新的流行电影类型,来自北瓦哈卡山脉的 Ayuujk (Mixe) 村庄的人们在他们移民到美国的过程中为建立跨国社区的目的而创作. 我于 2012 年至 2016 年间在墨西哥塔马祖拉帕姆米塞和美国洛杉矶进行了多地点民族志研究,研究了节日视频中出现的归属感的空间和时间性。实地考察基本上包括在演员的日常生活和媒体中陪伴他们练习。以行动者为中心的方法表明,寻求克服限制性边界和美国对拉丁美洲移民政策的跨国从属关系是如何以多样化且通常是间接的方式建立的。演员的人生历程...
更新日期:2017-12-01
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