Conclusion: Media Spaces of an ‘Indigenous’ Community—Comunalidad on the Move

The mediatization of Tamazulapam Mixe and its transnationalization between the hometown in Oaxaca and the satellite communities of, for example, Los Angeles is one chapter in a broader evolution that has seen the rapid and in some aspects radical transformation of ‘indigenous’ communities in Latin America.¹ Mass media are currently in the process of penetrating social life on a global scale, a phenomenon by no means confined to the urban contexts of the Global North. On the contrary, numerous mediatized ‘indigenous’ communities like Tama have emerged in Mexico’s rural areas. A key claim of this book was to show that