Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity Books

a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

Read more less

Book SynopsisRiley and her group of expert contributors supply a unique set of worldwide case studies and policy analyses as guidance for indigenous communities and their partners, in attempting to protect their intellectual property. Much of the existing literature already addresses the poor fit between western regimes of intellectual property rights and the requirements for safeguarding indigenous cultural resources. The manuscript gets beyond these negative claims in depicting positive efforts at protecting indigenous knowledge and cultures, notwithstanding these legal limitations. The reader is exposed to a wide array of legal, political, organizational, and contractual strategies deployed by indigenous groups to protect their intellectual property interests. It will be an important resource for social scientists, advocates for indigenous and human rights, bioprospecting, indigenous leaders, NGOs and law libraries.Trade ReviewThis kaleidoscopic collection explores legal strategies for defending the artistic and technological creations of indigenous peoples from misuse by outsiders. Each chapter illuminates a different facet of the problem. Together they offer fresh and urgently needed insight into one of the most vexing human-rights problems of the digital age. A superb addition to the required reading list of courses on globalization, intellectual property, and indigenous rights. -- Michael F. Brown, Williams College, author of Who Owns Native Culture?This book covers much of the enormous range of concerns Native peoples have today about appropriation and alienation of their cultural property and rights. . . . A good source for surveying the breadth of the IPR discourse today. -- Tom Greaves, Bucknell UniversityThe Convention on Biological Diversity is now ten years old, and more than a dozen years have passed since Darrell Posey called our attention to the possibility of intellectual property as a tool to benefit indigenous people. In this short time, indigenous people, governments, international agencies, conservationists, and human rights activists have explored different means to achieve the CBD's goal of recognizing the contributions of indigenous people to understanding, utilizing, and conserving biological diversity. We have expanded our search for equitable and effective means to protect a range of traditional knowledge. Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights reflects the broadening and maturing of scholarship about issues surrounding the protection of indigenous knowledge. Although medicinal and other plant knowledge remains central, this book shows that many more types of knowledge are now considered. Most importantly, the essays in Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights provide excellentexamples of how anthropologists and other scholars and activists have confronted the obstacles to such an ambitious agenda. As the world increasingly turns to legal mechanisms to protect people who have been marginalized and exploited for so long, this b -- Stephen B. Brush, University of California, DavisEach chapter demystifies indigenous intellectual property rights and explains why existing laws (attached to Western concepts and contructs) do not legally protect them. More importantly, the authors present actual cases that were resolved with respect to indigenous rights and consideration of their cultural values, beliefs and tradition...There are sufficient examples to assist in finding answers and defining solutions for a wide range of important concerns. * Muse *Dr. Mary Riley has edited an extremely timely and indispensable book for understanding the myriad issues impinging upon indigenous intellectual property rights. The legal protection of these intellectual achievements and the ability to control their dissemination by indigenous communities is a problem facing the world's legal and intellectual communities. In a world with a global economy and where local borders are ignored, indigenous property rights are constantly violated and exploited. The challenge is guidance from creative solutions and innovative programs to involve the people whose prior control is ignored. This thoughtful volume is a wonderful textbook for anthropology, business, and legal courses to enable students to propose solutions to local problems that defy easy answers for preserving indigenous knowledge and protecting economic interests of powerless communities. -- Richard I. Ford, University of MichiganThe Convention on Biological Diversity is now ten years old, and more than a dozen years have passed since Darrell Posey called our attention to the possibility of intellectual property as a tool to benefit indigenous people. In this short time, indigenous people, governments, international agencies, conservationists, and human rights activists have explored different means to achieve the CBD's goal of recognizing the contributions of indigenous people to understanding, utilizing, and conserving biological diversity. We have expanded our search for equitable and effective means to protect a range of traditional knowledge. Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights reflects the broadening and maturing of scholarship about issues surrounding the protection of indigenous knowledge. Although medicinal and other plant knowledge remains central, this book shows that many more types of knowledge are now considered. Most importantly, the essays in Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights provide excellent examples of how anthropologists and other scholars and activists have confronted the obstacles to such an ambitious agenda. As the world increasingly turns to legal mechanisms to protect people who have been marginalized and exploited for so long, this book will stand as a milestone and beacon. -- Stephen B. Brush, University of California, DavisTable of Contents1 Acknowledgments 2 Introduction 3 PART I: LEGAL OBSTACLES 4 CHAPTER 1: "As Long As the Grass Grows": Representing Indigenous Claims 5 CHAPTER 2: Digital Vibes and Radio Waves in Indigenous Peru 6 CHAPTER 3: Intellectual Property Protection and the Market for Alaska Native Arts and Crafts 7 CHAPTER 4: The Amerindian Rights Movement in Guyana and Its Influence 8 PART II: DEVELOPING INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS 9 CHAPTER 5: Land, Tenure Systems, and Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights 10 CHAPTER 6: Benefit-Sharing Under the Convention on Biological Diversity 11 CHAPTER 7: Ownership of Indigenous Languages: A case study from Guatemala 12 PART III: ACCESS AND CONTROL 13 CHAPTER 8: Intellectual Property Rights and Indigenous Peoples Rights and Responsibilities 14 CHAPTER 9: Biocolonialism and Isolates of Historic Interest 15 CHAPTER 10: Indigenous Knowledge and Traditional Plant Resources of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) Nation 16 CHAPTER 11: Intellectual Property Rights and Indigenous Cultural Heritage in Archaeology 17 CHAPTER 12: Prior Informed Consent and Bioprospecting Research in Chiapas 18 Index 19 About the Authors

Read more less

a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

Read more less

a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

Read more less

a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

Read more less

Book SynopsisShedding new light on regional developments in class, race, and culture, this groundbreaking study is the first to consider all Native Americans throughout southern New England.Trade ReviewOutstanding work... The book is filled with gems... Highly recommended. Choice 2008 Mandell has made a very valuable contribution to our understanding of Native American history in a period long overlooked. -- Jenny Pulsipher American Historical Review 2008 A carefully crafted, well-researched book... This review does not do justice to this rich account of the complex interactions of race, ethnicity, class, and gender in the survival of native peoples. -- Thomas D. Hall Journal of American History 2009 Mandell's superb book on a long-neglected subject should affect the way the larger narrative of this era of American history is written. -- Rachel Wheeler Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2009 A wide-ranging, intricately argued, and thoroughly researched book. It is well written and historiographically significant, and Mandell's nineteen-page essay on the source materials a the end of the volume is a boon for scholars. Overall, Mandell has produced an outstanding addition to the field of American Indian history in New England. -- Christopher J. Bilodeau Journal of American Ethnic History 2009 Consummate and exemplary researcher, Daniel Mandell has once again filled some significant gaps in our collective knowledge on the history of New England Native Americans... Very useful to the growing number of historians of this genre for generations to come. It will be a catalyst for many vital discussions and hopefully provoke some very important new research and writing. -- George Price H-SHEAR, H-Net Reviews 2009 This is a book that every scholar of Native Americans should own. The research is deep and thorough. The book makes excellent reading for a senior or honors class or a graduate class. The citations to sources are invaluable Connecticut History 2009 An impressive, timely and thoroughly researched piece of scholarship. Historical Journal of Massachusetts 2009 Mandell carefully reconstructs what the historical records tell us about how these communities adapted to the environments of their non-Native neighbors and states while maintaining regional ties withother Native communities... His detailed recording of these tribes and individuals shows that they did not disappear but were ignored when they no longer fit the new paradigm of 'Indian' shared by most Americans. Massachusetts Historical Review 2010 An ambitious book. -- D. Elliotte Draegor Journal of Social History 2011 Reveals the complex and hitherto poorly understood internal dynamics at play within these communities... an innovative work of cultural history. New England Quarterly 2011Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Land and LaborTribal ReservesSmall CommunitiesWork off the ReservationIndian Reserves as Refuges2. Community and FamilyIndian Networks in the Early RepublicMarriages with "Foreigners & Strangers"Anglo-American Views of Indian IntermarriageIndian Views of Race and IntermarriageIntermarriage and Assimilation3. Authority and AutonomyGuardians ReappointedMashpee and Gideon HawleyThe Standing Order, Class, and IndiansGuardians and Tribal ChallengesThe Mashpee Revolt4. Reform and RenascenceMaintaining InstitutionsIndians, the Society for Propagating the Gospel, and ReformsIndians, State Governments, and Economic EnterpriseRenascence and Resistance5. Reality and ImageryIndians at MidcenturyEmployment and WorkwaysTribal Identity and PoliticsImages of IndiansLocal Histories6. Citizenship and TerminationRace and Civil RightsProposing TerminationRejecting TerminationCompelling TerminationEpilogueList of AbbreviationsNotesEssay on SourcesIndex

Read more less

Book SynopsisThe Kiowas were once, along with the fighting Cheyennes, the most feared and hated of the Native tribes of the Great Plains. In The Kiowas, Mildred Mayhall tells the story of their evolution from mountain dwellers to fierce Plains nomads, explains how they lived, and traces the development of their unique pictographic calendars.

Read more less

Book SynopsisTrade Review[This] translation is the finest in English, and I think there is little doubt that this rendering of Cieza de León is the best all-round presentation of both the man and his writings."" - Gordon R. Willey,Science

Read more less

Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPlanned and executed upon a novel and striking pattern . . . this book appeals to the lawyer, the sociologist and the collector of Indian lore, as well as to the general reader."" - New York Times Book Review""Llewellyn and Hoebel have made a brilliant contribution. . . . not only to social anthropology and the sociology of law but to social science at large."" - Yale Law Journal""The Cheyenne Way is a stepping stone and a landmark in the program of social science. . . . and will prove of great value to social science, anthropology, and to the theory of law, primitive and crystalized."" - Lawyers Guild Review""A remarkable picture of the system of law and jurisprudence evolved by a primitive people . . . and as practiced by them over a long period of years. . . . The individual case histories reveal the working of the warrior societies, the degree of authority exercised by the chiefs, and the mores of a primitive people. . . . More than a study of the jurisprudence of this single tribe, [the book] deals with the evolution of law and legal procedure among various other primitive peoples of the world."" - Edward Everett Dale, Journal of Southern History""Here is pioneering in the Sociology of Law. . . . The cases themselves are so beautifully alive that an elementary school child will forget to go to sleep reading them; so will the adult."" - Columbia Law Review

Read more less

Trade ReviewThis study of racial and cultural stereotyping of the Indian in American culture is recounted with both wit and irony and makes delightful reading."" - Robert E. Bieder, Indiana Magazine of History""Strong, irreverent, capricious, useful and fun."" - True West

Read more less

Trade ReviewErnest Wallace and E. Adamson Hoebel, historian and anthropologist, . . . have re-created the life of the bold, confident people who . . . dominated the prairies of the Southwest. All of it is here: the toil and stress and joyous ingathering of the buffalo harvest, the exultant feats of horsemanship, the happy sociability of the tepee village, the excitement of war and raiding. Then military defeat and the loss of the buffalo, the frustrations of the reservation experience with the failure to bring back the old order by dancing and 'medicine,' and finally the mystical escape through Father Peyote. . . . In its interpretation of the Comanches' way of life, the book achieves its aim of satisfying both the general reader and the anthropologist. It is a good story well told, without romanticizing, but with understanding and detachment. Here [is] a people perfectly adapted to their environment, loving their life and their wild land and sky."" - Angie Debo, in the New York Times Book Review

Read more less

Trade ReviewA masterpiece of oral history…The [Apache] survivors tell a gripping story of danger and hardship - war in the Southwest, exile in Florida and Alabama, prisoner-of-war status in Oklahoma and , finally, the return home. Not only do we get a fresh view - the Indian view - of historical events, we come to understand and respect the Apache as a people."" - Publishers Weekly""Deeply touching are the sensitive discussions of Apache family life, rarely ever disclosed to outsiders. The book is well documented, appointed, edited and indexed, and the many photographers are well chosen."" - Arizona Highways""An extraordinarily valuable contribution to the history of the Apaches and to our knowledge of them. But for Eve Ball, these sincere and graphic accounts of the Apaches' side of the story would have been lost forever."" - Donald E. Worcester, Arizona and the West""This is a book that may be enjoyed and appreciated by the general reader while providing the serious scholar with insight into Apache thinking and emotions and a much broader comprehension of the years conflict than has previously been available…. Indeh is a worthwhile addition to anyone's southwestern library."" - Journal of Arizona History

Read more less

Book SynopsisThe first complete version in English of the “Book of the People” of the Quiche Maya, the most powerful nation of the Guatemalan highlands in pre-Conquest times. Generally regarded as America's oldest book, the Popol Vuh is the most important of the five pieces of the great library treasures of the Maya that survived the Spanish Conquest.

Read more less

Book SynopsisDevoted to a single contemporary Osage ceremonial, the I'n-Lon-Schka dance, this book recounts the dance, music, dress and social organization of a modern symbol of Osage identity.

Read more less

Trade ReviewA welcome addition to the study of cultural transformation and Indian struggle for survival."" - Southern Historian

Read more less

Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive account of Wounded Knee to appear in more than fifty years, this volume explores the complex events preceding the tragedy, the killings, and their troubled legacy. In this gripping tale, Jerome Greene explores why the bloody engagement happened and demonstrates how it became a brutal massacre.Trade ReviewJerome Greene's retelling of Wounded Knee is simply kili (awesome). Please read and understand."" - Her Many Horses, Michael, Wounded Knee community member""The story of Wounded Knee has been told many times, yet never from the vantage of such a wealth of new sources. Jerome A. Greene provides the definitive last word in this masterfully told account."" - R. Eli Paul, author of Blue Water Creek and the First Sioux War, 1854 - 1856""Wounded Knee is an inordinately complex story. Jerome A. Greene's thoughtful, artful, passionately written story is destined to become its new foundational history."" - Paul L. Hedren, author of After Custer: Loss and Transformation in Sioux Country

Read more less

Book SynopsisTells the story of one of the most influential - and controversial - American Indian activists of the twentieth century. Tadeusz Lewandowski offers the first full-scale biography of the woman whose passionate commitment to improving the lives of her people propelled her to the forefront of Progressive-era reform movements.Trade ReviewIn this definitive biography, Tadeusz Lewandowski carefully chronicles the challenges that Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša), her Dakota Nation, and many Native Americans endured during her lifetime. Red Bird, Red Power is a must-read for those interested in this remarkable woman and the history of Native and non-Native relations during the first half of the twentieth century."" - A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff, author of American Indian Literatures: An Introduction, Bibliographic Review, and Selected Bibliography""Red Bird, Red Power offers a complex portrait of a woman whose tenacious commitment to Native peoples produced unsettling alliances and political stances. Detailing the missing, misunderstood, and lesser-known periods of Gertrude Bonnin's life of advocacy and activism, Tadeusz Lewandowski provides an engrossing account of how she and a cohort of Native and non-Native people challenged and worked to change federal Indian policies in the first decades of the twentieth century. This book asks us to heed more fully the efforts of Native activists negotiating a difficult yet pivotal period of Indigenous political formation."" - Susan Bernardin, coauthor of Trading Gazes: Euro-American Women Photographers and Native North Americans, 1880 - 1940

Read more less

Book SynopsisThe first book to chronicle the attempt to recast the Native American burial mounds as the work of a lost white race of “true” native Americans. Jason Colavito traces this monumental deception from the farthest reaches of the frontier to the halls of Congress, mapping a century-long conspiracy to fabricate and promote a false ancient history.Trade ReviewJason Colavito explains how the myth of a 'lost white race' as the builders of North America's earthen mounds has survived for so long and still resonates with those Americans willing to believe in conspiracy theories or racial superiority. The Mound Builder Myth shows that the battle between science and superstition never ends."" - David La Vere, author of Looting Spiro Mounds: An American King Tut's Tomb

Read more less

Book SynopsisOn December 28, 1894 Lakota chief Two Sticks was hanged in Deadwood, South Dakota. On the gallows, Two Sticks declared, “My heart knows I am not guilty and I am happy.” The story of Two Sticks, as recounted in detail in this book, is at once the righting of a historical wrong and a record of the injustices visited upon the Lakota.

Read more less

Book SynopsisTaking in the full historical sweep of African Americans among the Creeks, from the sixteenth century through Oklahoma statehood, Gary Zellar unfolds a narrative history of the many contributions these people made to Creek history.

Read more less

Book SynopsisTells the story of the Cayuse people, from their early years through the nineteenth century, when the tribe was forced to move to a reservation. First published in 1972, this expanded edition is published in commemoration of the sesquicentennial of the treaty between the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla Confederated Tribes and the US government.

Read more less

Book SynopsisAlthough the Creeks constitute a sovereign nation today, the concept of the nation meant little to their ancestors in the Native South. Rather, as Steven Peach contends in Rivers of Power, the Creeks of present-day Georgia and Alabama conceptualized rivers as the basis of power, leadership, and governance in early America.

Read more less