Indigenous Experience Today

by Starn, Orin; de la Cadena, Marisol

• ISBN13: 9781845205188
• ISBN10: 1845205189
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-08-15
• Publisher: INGRAM

Summary

A century ago, the idea of indigenous people as an active force in the contemporary world was unthinkable. It was assumed that native societies everywhere would be swept away by the forward march of the West and its own peculiar brand of progress and civilization.Nothing could be further from the truth. Indigenous social movements wield new power, and groups as diverse as Australian Aborigines, Ecuadorian Quichuas, and New Zealand Maoris, have found their own distinctive and assertive ways of living in the present world. Indigenous Experience Today draws together essays by prominent scholars in anthropology and other fields examining the varied face of indigenous politics in Bolivia, Botswana, Canada, Chile, China, Indonesia, and the United States, amongst others. The book challenges accepted notions of indigeneity as it examines the transnational dynamics of contemporary native culture and politics around the world.

Author Biography

Orin Starn is Sally Dalton Robinson Professor of Cultural Antropology, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, USA. Marisol de la Cadena teaches in the Anthropology Department, University of California-Davis.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Marisol de la Cadena and Orin Starn

Indigenous Identities, Old and New*

Indigenous VoiceAnna Tsing*

Tibetan Indigeneity: Translations, Resemblances, and UptakeEmily T. Yeh*

"Our Struggle Has Just Begun": Experiences of Belonging and Mapuche Formations of SelfClaudia Briones

Territory and Questions of Sovereignty*

Indigeneity as Relational Identity: The Construction of Australian Land RightsFrancesca Merlan*

Choctaw Tribal Sovereignty at the Turn of the 21st CenturyValerie Lambert*

Sovereignty's BetrayalsMichael F. Brown

Indigeneity Beyond Borders*

Varieties of Indigenous Experience: Diasporas, Homelands, SovereigntiesJames Clifford*

Diasporic Media and Hmong/Miao Formulations of Nativeness and DisplacementLouisa Schein*

Bolivian Indigeneity in Japan: Folklorized Music PerformanceMichelle Bigenho

The Boundary Politics of Indigeneity*

Indian Indigeneities: Adivasi Engagements with Hindu Nationalism in IndiaAmita Baviskar*

"Ever-Diminishing Circles": The Paradoxes of Belonging in BotswanaFrancis B. Nyamnjoh*

The Native and the Neoliberal Down Under: Neoliberalism and "Endangered Authenticities"Linda Tuhiwai Smith

Indigenous Self-Representation, Non-Indigenous Collaborators and the Politics of Knowledge*

Melting Glaciers and Emerging Histories in the Saint Elias MountainsJulie Cruikshank*

The Terrible Nearness of Distant Places: Making History at the National Museum of the American IndianPaul Chaat Smith*

Afterword: Indigeneity TodayMary Louise Pratt

Index

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