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

这个研究项目考察了美洲土著期刊，以及它们如何作为特殊的媒体形式来塑造社会和文化。目前的研究将期刊理解为作为社会化和建立文本社区的手段的序列化和美学人工制品。此外，传播和媒介研究主要关注期刊的内容、主题和整体主题。然而，学术往往忽视了本土期刊的审美和物质维度，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，但土著期刊在印刷和公共传播方面的创新尚未从经验和理论上纳入期刊研究和土著研究领域。该项目旨在区分美国土著期刊作为审美产品和策划文物（即杂志作为一种体验而不是商品），解决在社会和技术转型时期的合作、互动和种族分化问题。这个项目试图找到更多关于是什么使美国土著期刊成为一个强大的中间地带，影响更广泛的文化，调解各种类型的土著现代性。

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.