Social movements and video indígena in Latin America : key challenges for ‘anthropologies otherwise’

Indigenous social movements in Latin America have been at the forefront of renewed struggles around cultural difference, the right to self-representation and self-determination, as well as calls for a plurality of ways of belonging and being. This chapter provides a brief critical account of the ongoing engagement by media anthropologists in indigenous media practices, arguing that media anthropology has been at the forefront of the study of social movements and their communication and media practices. I offer a brief description of how communication and media have taken a central role in rearticulating identity politics within indigenous social movements in Latin America by tracing the development since the 1980s of CLACPI, the Latin American Council of Indigenous Peoples’ Film and Communication.