Special Issue Introduction—Autonomy Through Collaboration: Memory and Media in Indigenous Print and Editorial Projects

ABSTRACT This special issue explores the encounter between cultural memory, media, and autonomy in collaborative printing and editorial projects. In recent years, there has been a rise in Indigenous publishing involving collaboration with anthropologists and/or anthropological knowledge. Indigenous collectives often invite anthropologists to support their autonomous publishing projects centered around history and cultural revitalization, due to their presumed interest in recording everyday performances and mobilizing diverse publics. In contemporary Latin America, cultural revitalization is often linked to Indigenous autonomy, interrogating and rekindling memory when salvage anthropology is considered unfashionable and impractical. Yet the reappropriation and repurposing of ethnographic knowledge may offer the possibility to retrace what no longer is, remember and retransmit in various ways, make present anew, or even create alternative forms of (re)presentation. The articles in this special issue explore the dynamics of collaboration in the context of decolonial initiatives and the persistence and transformation of mediatic forms.