Indigenous experience today / edited by Marisol de la Cadena and Orin Starn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cadena, Marisol de la.

Starn, Orin.

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.

Series:

Wenner-Gren International Symposium series.

Wenner-Gren International Symposium series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Social conditions.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--Government relations.

Culture and globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (424 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A century ago, the idea of indigenous people as an active force in the contemporary world was unthinkable. It was assumed that native societies everywhere would be swept away by the forward march of the West and its own peculiar brand of progress and civilization. Nothing could be further from the truth. Indigenous social movements wield new power, and groups as diverse as Australian Aborigines, Ecuadorian Quichuas, and New Zealand Maoris, have found their own distinctive and assertive ways of living in the present world. Indigenous Experience Today draws together essays by prominent scholars in anthropology and other fields examining the varied face of indigenous politics in Bolivia, Botswana, Canada, Chile, China, Indonesia, and the United States, amongst others. The book challenges accepted notions of indigeneity as it examines the transnational dynamics of contemporary native culture and politics around the world.

Contents:

pt. 1. Indigenous identities, old and new. Indigenous voice / Anna Tsing

Tibetan indigeneity : translations, resemblances, and uptake / Emily T. Yeh

"Our struggle has just begun": experiences of belonging and Mapuche formations of self / Claudia Briones

pt. 2. Territory and questions of sovereignty. Indigeneity as relational identity : the construction of Australian land rights / Francesca Merlan

Choctaw tribal sovereignty at the turn of the 21st century / Valerie Lambert

Sovereignty's Betrayals / Michael F. Brown

pt. 3. Indigeneity beyond borders. Varieties of indigenous experience : diasporas, homelands, sovereignties / James Clifford

Diasporic media and Hmong/Miao formulations of nativeness and displacement / Louisa Schein

Bolivian indigeneity in Japan : folklorized music performance / Michelle Bigenho

pt. 4. The boundary politics of indigeneity. Indian indigeneities : Adivasi engagements with Hindu nationalism in India / Amita Baviskar

"Ever-diminishing circles": the paradoxes of belonging in Botswana / Francis B. Nyamnjoh

The native and the neoliberal down under : neoliberalism and "endangered authenticities"/ Linda Tuhiwai Smith

pt. 5. Indigenous self-representation, non-indigenous collaborators and the politics of knowledge. Melting glaciers and emerging histories in the Saint Elias Mountains / Julie Cruikshank

The terrible nearness of distant places : making history at the national museum of the American Indian / Paul Chaat Smith

Indigeneity today / Mary Louise Pratt.

Notes:

At head of title: The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-00-308569-5

1-000-19018-8

1-000-18355-6

1-003-08569-5

1-4742-1493-2

1-282-47368-9

9786612473685

1-84788-337-0

9781003085690

OCLC:

646752374