Indigenous, yes: participatory documentary-making revisited (an Argentine case study)

Abstract: This Master in Communication for Development thesis –an essay- is based on two documentaries made with -and about- indigenous communities located in the North region of Argentina (the provinces of Misiones and Jujuy) which the author produced between 1997 and 2003 through the implementation of a participatory communication approach: Ayvü-Porä/The beautiful words (1998), and Candabare/Late summer celebration (2001). The essay is meant to be in itself a communication for development device: an investigation of examples, and a mapping exercise, intent at laying open and laying out the actual practices that led to the concrete products discussed.