| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 415 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Wenner-Gren International Symposium series
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Wenner-Gren International Symposium series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 -- 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 -- Terrible nearness of distant places : making history at the national museum of the American Indian / Paul Chaat Smith -- Indigeneity today / Mary Louise Pratt. |
| Summary |
Draws together essays by prominent scholars in anthropology and other fields examining the varied face of indigenous politics in Bolivia, Botswana, Canada, and Chile, amongst others. This book challenges accepted notions of indigeneity as it examines the transnational dynamics of contemporary native culture and politics around the world. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- Social conditions.
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Indigenous peoples -- Social conditions. |
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Indigenous peoples -- Government relations.
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Indigenous peoples -- Government relations. |
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Culture and globalization.
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Culture and globalization. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Cadena, Marisol de la.
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Starn, Orin.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Indigenous experience today. Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2007 (DLC) 2007012821 |
| ISBN |
1847883370 (electronic book) |
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9781847883377 (electronic book) |
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1282473689 |
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9781282473683 |
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9781845205188 (cloth) |
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9781847883377 |
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1845205189 (cloth) |
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9781845205195 (paperback) |
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1845205197 (paperback) |
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