Decolonizing Native Histories : Collaboration, Knowledge, and Language in the Americas / Florencia E. Mallon, Gladys McCormick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mallon, Florencia E., author.

Contributor:

McCormick, Gladys, translator.

Series:

Narrating native histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Place of Publication:

Duke University Press 2011

[s.l.] : Duke University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Decolonizing Native Histories is an interdisciplinary collection that grapples with the racial and ethnic politics of knowledge production and indigenous activism in the Americas. It analyzes the relationship of language to power and empowerment, and advocates for collaborations between community members, scholars, and activists that prioritize the rights of Native peoples to decide how their knowledge is used. The contributors-academics and activists, indigenous and nonindigenous, from disciplines including history, anthropology, linguistics, and political science-explore the challenges of decolonization. These wide-ranging case studies consider how language, the law, and the archive have historically served as instruments of colonialism and how they can be creatively transformed in constructing autonomy. The collection highlights points of commonality and solidarity across geographical, cultural, and linguistic boundaries and also reflects deep distinctions between North and South. Decolonizing Native Histories looks at Native histories and narratives in an internationally comparative context, with the hope that international collaboration and understanding of local histories will foster new possibilities for indigenous mobilization and an increasingly decolonized future.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

About the series

Introduction: Decolonizing Knowledge, Language, and Narrative

Part one. Land, Sovereignty, and Self- Determination

Introduction

Hawaiian Nationhood, Self- Determination, and International Law

Issues of Land and Sovereignty: The Uneasy Relationship between Chile and Rapa Nui

Part two. Indigenous Writing and Experiences with Collaboration

Quechua Knowledge, Orality, and Writings: The Newspaper Conosur Ñawpagman

Collaboration and Historical Writing: Challenges for the Indigenous–Academic Dialogue

The Taller Tzotzil of Chiapas, Mexico: A Native Language Publishing Project, 1985–2002

Part Three. Generations of Indigenous Activism and Internal Debates

Dangerous Decolonizing: Indians and Blacks and the Legacy of Jim Crow

Nationalist Contradictions: Pan- Mayanism, Representations of the Past, and the Reproduction of Inequalities in Guatemala

Conclusion

References

Contributors

Index

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781478092148

1478092149

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access