Periodicals and Indigenous Modernity: Building a Text Corpus of American Indian Magazines, 1890-1930

期刊与本土现代性：建立美洲印第安人杂志文本语料库，1890-1930

• 批准号: 441689155
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Oliver Scheiding
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2019-12-31 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/441689155?language=en
• 关键词: Periodicals; Indigenous; Modernity; Building; Text

This research project examines Native American periodicals and how they function as particular media formats to shape society and culture. Current research understands periodicals as serialized and aesthetic artifacts serving both as means of socialization and for establishing textual communities. Moreover, communication and media studies focus primarily on content, topic and the overall subject matter of periodicals. Scholarship tends to overlook, however, the indigenous periodicals’ aesthetic and material dimensions to address questions of sovereignty and modernity. Despite the central role of periodicals as public institutions that fulfill social functions, innovations in print and public communication specific to indigenous periodicals have yet to be empirically and theoretically integrated into the fields of periodical studies and Native American studies. The project aims at differentiating Native American periodicals as aesthetic products and curated artifacts (i.e. the magazine as an experience not as a commodity), addressing questions of collaboration, interaction, and ethnic differentiation in a period of social and technological transition. The project seeks to find out more about what makes Native American periodicals a powerful middle ground to affect the wider culture and mediate various types of indigenous modernity.

这项研究项目考察了美洲原住民期刊，以及它们如何作为特定的媒体形式塑造社会和文化。目前的研究将期刊理解为连载的审美产物，既是社会化的手段，也是建立文本社区的手段。此外，传播学和传媒学主要关注期刊的内容、主题和整体题材。然而，学术倾向于忽视本土期刊的美学和材料维度，以解决主权和现代性问题。尽管期刊作为履行社会职能的公共机构发挥着核心作用，但针对土著期刊的印刷和公共传播创新尚未从经验和理论上整合到期刊研究和美洲原住民研究领域。该项目旨在区分美洲原住民期刊作为美学产品和精心策划的艺术品(即杂志作为一种体验，而不是作为一种商品)，解决社会和技术转型时期的合作、互动和种族分化问题。该项目试图找出更多关于是什么使美洲原住民期刊成为影响更广泛的文化和调解各种类型的原住民现代性的强大的中间地带。