Comparative Indigenous studies / Mita Banerjee (ed.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Banerjee, Mita, editor.

Series:

American studies (Munich, Germany) ; Volume 268.

American Studies - A Monograph Series ; Volume 268

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (430 p.)

Place of Publication:

Heidelberg, Germany : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016.

Summary:

This volume explores the complexity, vibrancy, and contemporaneity of indigenous cultures today. It understands the concept of "Comparative Indigenous Studies" in such a transnational and interdisciplinary sense. It links indigenous communities in the Americas, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia. Bringing together scholars from the humanities and social sciences, from law, economics, cultural geography, and medicine, this book highlights the ways in which indigenous cultures have resisted, time and again, the myth of their own disappearance.

Contents:

Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Table of Contents; Mita BANERJEE, Introduction: Comparative Indigenous Studies and the Politics of Reconciliation; Michael BACHMANN, Theaters of Identity: Theatrical Discourse and Representations of Indigeneity in the Writings of Gerald Vizenor; Sabine KIM, Traveling Totems and Networks of Mobility: Indigenous Challenges to Dispossession; René DIETRICH, Biopolitics and Indigenous Literary Studies: Settler Colonial Hierarchies, Relational Lives, and the Political Potential of Native Writing in N. Scott Momaday's ""The Way to Rainy Mountain""

Sabine N. MEYER, Incorporating the Indigenous Subject: Environmental Justice, Human Rights, and Independent FilmEva RIEMPP, The New Wild West? Gold Rush in the Rainforest of Guyana and Suriname; Leslie E. KORN, Burying the Umbilicus: Traditional Medicine on the West Coast of Mexico; Hsinya HUANG, Trans-Pacific Ecological Imaginary; Mita BANERJEE, The Myth of the "Vanishing" Indian: Transnational Perspectives and Indigenous Lives; Ulrich BREUER, "Dead Redskins": ""Winnetou"" as Knowledge Gap

Jan KUSBER, Sibiryaks and Indigenous Peoples: Indigeneity in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Siberian DiscourseAnton ESCHER, Driving the Cheyenne Dream: The Hero's Journey Dreamed by Philbert Bono a.k.a. "Whirlwind Dreamer" in the Feature Film "Powwow Highway"; Dieter DÖRR, Cheyenne Autumn: The Historical Background of the Film ""Pow Wow Highway""; Franz ROTHLAUF, Claus-Peter H. ERNST, AND Rafaél Rivera Azañedo, Production Factors and Economic Success of Indian Gambling: A Case Study on the Harrah's Cherokee Casino Resort

Elke WAGNER, Native Americans on the Net: A Media Sociological PerspectiveKatja SARKOWSKY, "Out of the Belly of Christopher's Ship": Mapping the 'Red Atlantic' and Indigenous Modernity; Frank SCHULZE-ENGLER, Global History, Indigenous Modernities, Transcultural Memory: World War I and II in Native Canadian, Aboriginal Australian, and Maori Fiction

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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ISBN:

9783825375874

3825375870