From home base to database … and back? The circulation and virtualities of Amerindian knowledge in the digital era

As the Internet, electronic mail, compact discs, and digital telephones sweep through much of the United States, Native American activists are asking themselves whether and how the new technology can empower Native communities. Or will the new technology of telecommunications and computers serve on...

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Argitaratua izan da:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/jsa,
Egile nagusia: Vapnarsky, Valentina
Formatua: Article ou chapitre numérique
Hizkuntza:Anglais
Argitaratua: Journal de la Société des américanistes 2021
Sarrera elektronikoa:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Gaia:As the Internet, electronic mail, compact discs, and digital telephones sweep through much of the United States, Native American activists are asking themselves whether and how the new technology can empower Native communities. Or will the new technology of telecommunications and computers serve only as a modern-day version of the telegraph and railroad that ran right through Indian lands with little benefit to the tribes? (US Congress 1995)In the mid-1960s, in an essay that reverberated wid...