Radiodifusión Mapuche en Gulumapu (Chile): Formatos y Contenidos Temáticos para Disputar la Autorepresentación

Abstract

Latin American indigenous peoples have been not only marginalized and excluded, but also folklorized by social representation and omitted or distorted by mass media. Radio broadcasting, however, has been a powerful tool with which native peoples have disseminated their own identities and arguments, in a clear symbolic collective actions of self-representation that reflect their cultures and oralities. The Mapuche people of Gulumapu has been no exception. This article presents the issues and formats that Mapuche broadcasters have used to challenge the dominant narratives in Chilean mass media.