Indigeneity and nation / edited by G.N. Devy and Geoffrey V. Davis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Devy, G. N., 1950- editor.

Davis, Geoffrey V., 1943-2018, editor.

Series:

Key concepts in indigenous studies.

Key concepts in indigenous studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (179 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2021.

Summary:

Part of the series Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies, this book focuses on the concepts that recur in any discussion of nature, culture and society among the indigenous. The book, the third in a five-volume series, deals with the two key concepts of indigeneity and nation of indigenous people from all the continents of the world. With contributions from renowned scholars, activists and experts across the globe, it looks at issues and ideas of indigeneity, nationhood, nationality, State, identity, selfhood, constitutionalism, and citizenship in Africa, North America, New Zealand, Pacific Islands and Oceania, India, and Southeast Asia from philosophical, cultural, historical and literary points of view. Bringing together academic insights and experiences from the ground, this unique book with its wide coverage will serve as a comprehensive guide for students, teachers and scholars of indigenous studies. It will be essential reading for those in social and cultural anthropology, tribal studies, sociology and social exclusion studies, politics, religion and theology, cultural studies, literary and postcolonial studies, Third World and Global South studies, as well as activists working with indigenous communities.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

Title

Copyright

Contents

Notes on contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Indigeneity in Southern Africa

2 Oceanic Identities: trans/national formations in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands region

3 Storied nationhood: literature, constitutionalism, and citizenship in Indigenous North America

4 Finding nation: the nation and the state in F. Sionil Jose's Mass and Edwin Thumboo's A Third Map

5 Indigenous peoples and nation interface in India

6 African indigeneity: the Southern African challenge

7 Two poets of the Pacific: Hone Tuwhare and Haunani-Kay Trask

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-000-19213-X

0-429-29183-3

1-000-19207-5

9780429291838

OCLC:

1182850775