Indigenous textual cultures : reading and writing in the age of global empire / Tony Ballantyne, Lachy Paterson and Angela Wanhalla, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ballantyne, Tony, 1972- editor.

Paterson, Lachy, 1958- editor.

Wanhalla, Angela, editor.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literacy--Social aspects.

Literacy.

Indigenous peoples--Education.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--Communication.

Indigenous peoples--Books and reading.

Indigenous peoples--Colonization.

Colonization--Social aspects.

Colonization.

Books and reading.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

"The contributors to Indigenous Textual Cultures examined the ways in which indigenous peoples created textual cultures to navigate, shape, and contest empire, colonialism, and modernity."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Indigenous textual cultures, the politics of difference, and the dynamism of practice / Tony Ballantyne and Lachy Paterson

Ka Waihona Palapala Manaleo : research in a time of plenty. Colonialism and the Hawaiian Language Archives / Noelani Arista

Kanak writings and written tradition in the Archive of New Caledonia's "1917" War / Alban Bensa and Adrian Muckle

Māori literacy practices in colonial New Zealand / Lachy Paterson

"Don't destroy the writing" : time- and space-based communication and the colonial strategy of mimicry in nineteenth-century Salish-missionary relations on Canada's Pacific Coast / Keith Thor Carlson

Talking traditions : orality, ecology, and spirituality in Mangaia's Textual cultures / Michael P.J. Reilly

Polynesian family manuscripts (Puta Tupuna) from the Society and Austral Islands : interior history, formal logic, and social uses / Bruno Saura

Print media, the Swahili language, and textual cultures in twentieth century Tanzania, c.1923-1939 / Emma Hunter

Going off script : Aboriginal rejection and repurposing of English literacies / Laura Rademaker

"Read it, don't smoke it"! Developing and maintaining literacy in Papua New Guinea / Evelyn Ellerman

Colonial copyright, customs, and indigenous textualities : literary authority and textual citzenship / Isabel Hofmeyr

He Pukapuka Tataku i ngā Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui : reading Te Rauparaha through time / Arini Loader

Writing and beyond in indigenous North America : The Occom network / Ivy Schweitzer.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Indigenous textual cultures.

ISBN:

9781478012344

147801234X

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.