Performing indigeneity : global histories and contemporary experiences / edited by Laura R. Graham and H. Glenn Penny.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Graham, Laura R., 1956- editor.

Penny, H. Glenn, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Ethnic identity.

Indigenous peoples.

Ethnicity--Social aspects.

Ethnicity.

Group identity.

Public spaces--Social aspects.

Public spaces.

Physical Description:

ix, 431 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2014]

Summary:

"This engaging collection of essays discusses the complexities of "being" indigenous in public spaces. Laura R. Graham and H. Glenn Penny bring together a set of highly recognized junior and senior scholars, including indigenous scholars, from a variety of fields to provoke critical thinking about the many ways in which individuals and social groups construct and display unique identities around the world. The case studies in Performing Indigeneity underscore the social, historical, and immediate contextual factors at play when indigenous people make decisions about when, how, why, and who can "be" indigenous in public spaces. Performing Indigeneity invites readers to consider how groups and individuals think about performance and display and focuses attention on the ways that public spheres, both indigenous and nonindigenous ones, have received these performances. The essays demonstrate that performance and display are essential to the creation and persistence of indigeneity, while also presenting the conundrum that in many cases "indigeneity" excludes some of the voices or identities that the category purports to represent. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Performing Indigeneity : Emergent Identity, Self-Determination, and Sovereignty / Laura R. Graham and H. Glenn Penny

Living Traditions : A Manifesto for Critical Indigeneity / Bernard Perley

Culture Claims : Being Maasai at the United Nations / Dorothy L. Hodgson

A White Face for the Cofán Nation? : Randy Borman and the Ambivalence of Indigeneity / Michael L. Cepek

Performed Alliances and Performative Identities : Tupinamba in the Kingdom of France / Beatriz Perrone-Moisés

Rethinking Sami Agency during Living Exhibitions : From the Age of Empire to the Postwar World / Cathrine Baglo

Not Playing Indian : Surrogate Indigeneity and the German Hobbyist Scene / H. Glenn Penny

The Return of K? : Re-membering Hawaiian Masculinity, Warriorhood, and Nation / Ty P. K'wika Tengan

Bone-Deep Indigeneity : Theorizing Hawaiian Care for the State and Its Broken Apparatuses / Greg Johnson

Haka : Colonized Physicality, Body-Logic, and Embodied Sovereignty / Brendan Hokowhitu

Genders of Xavante Ethnographic Spectacle : Cultural Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Brazil / Laura R. Graham

Showing Too Much or Too Little : Predicaments of Painting Indigenous Presence in Central Australia / Fred Myers

Cities : Indigeneity and Belonging / Mark K. Watson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

0803256868

9780803271951

0803271956

9780803256866

OCLC:

877370520

Publisher Number:

99960569395