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Book SynopsisConsiders Ecuador's united indigenous movement and compares it to the more fragmented situation in Bolivia. This book analyzes the mechanisms at work in political and social structures to explain the different outcomes in various cases.

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Book SynopsisOn December 22, 1997, forty-five unarmed members of the indigenous organization Las Abejas (The Bees) were massacred in a prayer meeting in the village of Acteal, Mexico. This work contrasts the accounts of the Acteal massacre and other events with state attempts to frame the past, control subaltern populations, and legitimatize its own authority.

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Book SynopsisHow native people—from the Miwoks of Yosemite to the Maasai of eastern Africa—have been displaced from their lands in the name of conservation.Since 1900, more than 108,000 officially protected conservation areas have been established worldwide, largely at the urging of five international conservation organizations. About half of these areas were occupied or regularly used by indigenous peoples. Millions who had been living sustainably on their land for generations were displaced in the interests of conservation. In Conservation Refugees, Mark Dowie tells this story. This is a “good guy vs. good guy” story, Dowie writes; the indigenous peoples' movement and conservation organizations have a vital common goal—to protect biological diversity—and could work effectively and powerfully together to protect the planet and preserve biological diversity. Yet for more than a hundred years, these two forces have been at odds. The result: thousa

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Book SynopsisOn January 1, 1994 in the far southeast of Mexico, a guerrilla army of indigenous Mayan peasants calling itself the Zapatista Army of National Liberation rose up in rebellion against 500 years of colonialism, imperialism, genocide, racism, and neoliberal capitalism. Zapatismo Beyond Borders examines how Zapatismo, the political philosophy of the Zapatistas, crossed the regional and national boundaries of the isolated indigenous communities of Chiapas to influence diverse communities of North American activists.Providing readers with anthropological perspectives that draw on a year of fieldwork with activists, and also enriched by the author's own experience with contemporary social justice struggles, Alex Khasnabish examines the "transnational resonance" of the Zapatista movement. He shows how the spread of Zapatismo has unexpectedly produced new imaginations and practices of radical political action in diverse socio-political movements throughout North America. Trade Review"'Khasnabish's research is solid, the conceptual framework is innovative and interesting with a logical progress from theory to history and case studies. This is a very good work: engaging, sometimes enraging, alive, and well-informed.' Philippe Couton, Department of Sociology, University of Ottawa"

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Book SynopsisWho can lay claim to a legally-recognized Indian identity? Who decides whether or not an individual qualifies? The right to determine tribal citizenship is fundamental to tribal sovereignty, but deciding who belongs has a complicated history, especially in the South.Indians who remained in the South following removal became a marginalized and anomalous people in an emerging biracial world. Despite the economic hardships and assimilationist pressures they faced, they insisted on their political identity as citizens of tribal nations and rejected Euro-American efforts to reduce them to another racial minority, especially in the face of Jim Crow segregation. Drawing upon their cultural traditions, kinship patterns, and evolving needs to protect their land, resources, and identity from outsiders, southern Indians constructed tribally-specific citizenship criteria, in part by manipulating racial categories - like blood quantum - that were not traditional elements of indigenous cultures. MikTrade ReviewA much-needed exploration of the complexities and stresses that Native nations face in their efforts to maintain control over citizenship and national identity within their communities.Who Belongs? is a wonderfully detailed testament to the many complexities of identity, community, territory, and cultural connectivity that constitute not just the Native nations explored in this text but also others spreadacross Indian country.It is a valuable addition to the historiography of the Native South, to critical identity and race studies in the United States, and to the wider canon of federal Indian law and American Indian sovereignty. * Paul McKenzie-Jones, Journal of Southern History *Adams has taken on an incredible task in chronicling the histories of six tribes from colonialism to citizenship, and readers will appreciate the legal ethnohistory of tribal citizenship practices she offers * Katrina Jagodinsky, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Journal of American Ethnic Hisory *Adams has authored a wonderful study of citizenship and belonging in the Native South. The book is well conceived, thoroughly researched, and lucidly written. Her arguments are clearly outlined in the introduction and cleverly tied together in the conclusion. In between she effectively illustrates how six southern tribal nations strategically acted to define and protect their identity in the twentieth century. Scholarship on southern Indians in the post-removal era is flourishing, and this book is a significant contribution to the field. * Christopher Arris Oakley, North Carolina Historical Review *Mikaela Adams has produced a very original, well-researched, and badly needed study of citizenship and sovereignty in the modern Native American South....Her narrative is carefully crafted and the stories lively. Her usage of the available sources is comprehensive. Most important, the issues of nationhood, citizenship, and sovereignty that she grapples with swirl today in Native communities, and as more scholars begin to reevaluate Native American history of all eras, this book will prove incredibly insightful. * Kevin Kokomoor, H-AmIndian *This is a stunning piece of scholarship on Native identity. By understanding Native communities in the South through the lenses of sovereignty and self-determination, this book upends old approaches and makes a vital contribution to our understanding of Native histories and cultures. It places their voices and experiences first, reminding us that those communities have never ceded control of their own narratives. * Clyde Ellis, author of A Dancing People: Powwow Culture on the Southern Plains *Written in clear and engaging prose, Adams provides a sweeping analysis of the politics of belonging among six indigenous nations of the American South. The research is staggering in its breadth. But the discussion of each tribe's strategy in defining citizenship is still deeply attentive to local circumstances, showing the convergent and divergent ways in which Native peoples negotiated race, religion, resources, and relationships as they defined and refined their nationhood. It is an essential read in studies of the Native South. * Angela Pulley Hudson, author of Real Native Genius: How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon became Famous Indians *In compelling fashion, Who Belongs? reveals the complicated chemistry and history behind the contemporary struggles over tribal citizenship. Contemporary Indian tribes are free to choose their own qualifications for membership, but Adams deftly shows us how different cultural and political terrains have led Natives to choose differently. This is an important and timely book and one that will undoubtedly shape the future of tribal sovereignty. * Andrew K. Frank, author of Creeks and Southerners: Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier *Adams's prose is readable and engaging as she interweaves complex, theoretical principles with accessible examples."-Jeff Fortney, EthnohistoryAs anyone who has studied citizenship definitions in modern North American Indian tribes knows, Adams has taken on a topic rife with a constantly shifting matrix of rules, regulations, criteria and transformations that boggle the mind and defy easy understanding....Adams's signature accomplishment is addressing tribal citizenship criteria in the modern South in a clear, relatively concise way that addresses a glaring regional gap in Native American historiography....Who Belongs? is a significant contribution to scholarship on the Native South that effectively addresses a difficult issue vital to both the past and present. This work should be used by scholars and teachers alike to provide a different perspective on native peoples in the South that treats them not as historical relics but as resourceful modern groups and individuals who continue to navigate impediments to community survival successfully.>"-Daniel S. Murphree, HistoryAdams skillfully combines an ethnohistorical take on the evolving conception of race with legal scholarship to present an argument that tribal citizenship, shaped by notions of belonging and practical economic and political concerns, is necessarily dynamic as a response to American intervention....A worthy read for those in history and ethnic studies."-Alaina E. Roberts, Western Historical QuarterlyA much-needed exploration of the complexities and stresses that Native nations face in their efforts to maintain control over citizenship and national identity within their communities. In an era when these nations are again threatened by federal and congressional attempts to subvert their sovereignty in order to gain access to extractable fuel on reservations and Native lands, this text is a timely reminder of the legal and political strength of that sovereignty in matters as apparently straightforward as defining one's own citizenry....Using oral histories and an impressive number of archival collections, Adams seamlessly blends tribal, settler, and state histories with an impressive analysis of federal Indian law to provide an exhaustively researched examination of the contours and strictures of belonging that have framed identity and community within these six Native nations."-Paul McKenzie-Jones, Journal of Southern HistoryTribal citizenship is not a static concept; rather, Native peoples have used citizenship in a variety of ways: to assert a particular identity, to protect resources, or to push back against the segregation of the Jim Crow South....Adams's careful analysis shows how tribes have defined Indian identity as a political status based on citizenship in a particular group, rather than race, and the consequences that then follow."-Fay A. Yarbrough, American Historical ReviewAdams's research is thorough, her analysis insightful, and her story rather ironic. The introductory chapter...is a model for how historians ought to open an argument."-Tim Alan Garrison, Pacific Historical ReviewAdams draws evidence from a range of ethnographic, tribal, state, and federal sources. Each one of these chapters could be its own book, and yet her concise, detailed treatment of the five case studies is comprehensive and nuanced....This book will be a welcome addition to classes on the histories of Native peoples, the South, and race. A strength is Adams's pivot between policy and personal stories. She infuses the book with just enough genealogy to provide a human face to decisions that often had less to do with relationships than with protecting resources; asserting sovereignty; or, in the case of the federal government, just finishing the job....This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand Native Southerners today."-Rose Stremlau, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive EraAn essential and ongoing conversation about the historical and contemporary challenges to indigenous sovereignty and self-determination."-Brandi Hilton-Hagemann, Reviews in American HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Citizenship and Sovereignty Chapter 1: Policing Belonging, Protecting Identity: The Pamunkey Indian Tribe of Virginia Chapter 2: From Fluid Lists to Fixed Rolls: The Catawba Indian Nation of South Carolina Chapter 3: Learning the Language of "Blood": The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians Chapter 4: Contests of Sovereignty: The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Chapter 5: Nation Building and Self-Determination: The Seminole Tribe of Florida and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida Conclusion: Who Belongs? Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis 1999 book relates how an aristocratic discourse on American Indians took shape in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Titled and educated European visitors to North America, with the background of the French Revolution in mind, developed a new belief in their affinity with the warrior elites of Indian societies.Trade Review"...this smoothly written, carefully constructed book is of interest to Indian historians. By broadening perspectives beyond American shores on the processes by which non-Indians have historically reinterpreted the meaning of Indianness, Liebersohn makes a contribution to a vital area of scholarship." American Indian Quarterly"[Liebersohn's] book will interest all students of Romanticism, travel writing, and modernism. Evocative and gracefully written, Aristocratic Encounters brings to life the diverse culture of North American Indians and the images and categories through which European travelers tended to interpret that culture." Journal of Modern History"...Aristocratic Encounters has many strong suits. It is clearly written and lacks jargon. It also possesses a creative structure." June Namias, The Journal of American History"...the significance of this work for understanding the ways that nineteenth-century French and German elites perceived themselves and the ways that they employed symbols of the New World to demonstrate their social status in a new Europe is exceptional." The Historian"Aristocratic Encounters is a valuable contribution to the history of travel writing and its relation to empire." Itinerario"Harry Liebersohn has provided a compact, concise addition to the burgeoning literature on European contact with non-Europeans and European constructions of the 'other'...this book is truly European in its authorship and approach. The entire book, indeed, is a series of useful summaries of historical knowledge to date...admirable book." American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. From Neoclassicism to Romanticism: France and American Indians 1682–1815; 1. Indians in the French Enlightenment; 2. Chateaubriand and the fiction of Native Aristocrats; Part II. Ending a Tradition: The French Romantic Travelers, 1815–48; 3. Critics and nostalgics; 4. Tocqueville and the sociology of native aristocrats; Part III. Founding a Tradition: The German Romantic Travelers: 5. Immigrants and educated observers; 6. Maximilian and the ethnography of Native Aristocrats; Epilogue: a world of new aristocrats.

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Book SynopsisPrehistoric Native Americans and Ecological Change demonstrates the importance of prehistoric human activities in the ecology of eastern North America, and as such has important implications for conservation biology, forest management and ecological restoration today.Trade Review'… the book is a welcome addition to the study on human ecosystems in prehistoric times … [it] merits attention as an important study in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology.' International StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Part I. Panarchy as an Integrative Paradigm: Overview; 1. The need for a new synthesis; 2. Panarchy theory and Quaternary ecosystems; 3. Holocene human ecosystems; Part II. Ecological Feedbacks and Processes: Overview; 4. Gene-level interactions; 5. Population-level interactions; 6. Community-level interactions; 7. Landscape-level interactions; 8. Regional-level interactions; Part III. Application and Synthesis: Overview; 9. The ecological legacy of prehistoric Native Americans; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe debate on indigenous rights has revealed some serious difficulties for current international law, posed mainly by different understandings of important concepts. This book explores the extent to which indigenous claims, as recorded in the United Nations forums, can be accommodated by international law. By doing so, it also highlights how the indigenous debate has stretched the contours and ultimately evolved international human rights standards. The book first reflects on the international law responses to the theoretical arguments on cultural membership. After a comprehensive analysis of the existing instruments on indigenous rights, the discussion turns to self-determination. Different views are assessed and a fresh perspective on the right to self-determination is outlined. Ultimately, the author refuses to shy away from difficult questions and challenging issues and offers a comprehensive discussion of indigenous rights and their contribution to international law.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: '… this book provides a useful introduction to indigenous rights. … It offers a helpful overview of a difficult subject, and may well whet the appetite of the interested student.' Gordon BennettReview of the hardback: '… a real contribution to the on-going debate regarding the rights of indigenous peoples. It is written clearly, in an interesting and easy-for-reading style and is supported by a substantial bibliography. It can be recommended to all who are interested in an in-depth analysis regarding the international rights or indigenous peoples.' Netherlands Quarterly of Human RightsReview of the hardback: 'The book succeeds in capturing the substantial dimension of indigenous claims and related challenges to traditional international law, offering an important contribution to the growing international literature on indigenous rights. It suits both a reader without specialist knowledge of the subject, who can benefit from the general analysis of the current, and emerging, indigenous rights regime, and a more expert reader who can delve into interesting discussions on some of the most controversial issues arising within the indigenous debate in the international arena.' International and Comparative QuarterlyReview of the hardback: 'This book is nowhere more successful than when it is dealing with the 'thorny topic' of self-determination. The author has a deep knowledge of this area and she writes about it with a sure touch. … In this impressive book, Xanthaki explores a rich variety of international standards that support the evolution of indigenous rights. She marshals these often fragmentary sources, organising them into a coherent account of current international law. She condenses the voluminous literature on each of the book's themes into accessible chapters without diminishing the quality of her scholarship, which is a considerable achievement given the explosion in the discourse on indigenous rights during the last two decades. For the most part, she adopts a pragmatic approach to identifying the lex lata on indigenous rights and she sharpens the existing set of tools so that they can be applied with maximum effect. In this respect, her book is a worthy successor to Thornberry's Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights.' Wiley InterScienceReview of the hardback: '… an impressively researched, well written textbook-like book on indigenous peoples' rights and United Nations' standards that is also an immensely valuable teaching tool.' Human Rights Law ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Recognition of cultural membership; 2. United Nations instruments on indigenous peoples; 3. Emerging law: the United Nations draft declaration on indigenous peoples; 4. Do indigenous peoples have the right to self-determination?; 5. Indigenous cultural rights; 6. Indigenous land rights; Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a survey of studies so far made on various aspects of current Aboriginal economic life in different environments in Australia, and raises questions of economic policy which follow from their results. In this the authors break new ground in the breadth of their canvass and by their extension of issues previously limited to the realm of social welfare to that of economic policy.Table of ContentsList of Tables; List of Maps; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Inequality: an overview; 2. Remote Australia I: government settlements and missions; 3. Remote Australia II: pastoral stations; 4. Remote Australia III: decentralised communities; 5. Settled Australia I: urban and rural communities; 6. Settled Australia II: the major urban areas; 7. Some economic issues; Appendixes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe BarÃ, or Fish People, of the Northwest Amazon form part of an unusual network of intermarrying local communities scattered along the rivers of this region. Each community belongs to one of sixteen different groups that speak sixteen different languages, and marriages must take place between people not only from different communities but with different primary languages. In a network of this sort, which defies the usual label of 'tribe', social identity assumes a distinct and unusual configuration. In this book, Jean Jackson's incisive discussions of Barà marriage, kinship, spatial organization, and other features of the social and geographic landscape show how Tukanoans (as participants in the network are collectively known) conceptualize and tie together their universe of widely scattered communities, and how an individual's identity emerges in terms of relations with others. As theoretically challenging as it is unique, the Tukanoan system bears on a wide range of issues of curreTable of ContentsList of figures, maps and tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Note on orthography; 1. Purpose and organization of the book; 2. Introduction to the central Northwest Amazon; 3. Longhouse; 4. Economic and political life; 5. Vaupés social structure; 6. Kinship; 7. Marriage; 8. Tukanoans and Makú; 9. The role of language and speech in Tukanoan identity; 10. Male and female identity; 11. Tukanoans' place in the cosmos; 12. Tukanoans and the outside world; 13. Conclusions: themes in Tukanoan social identity; Notes; Glossary; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a survey of studies so far made on various aspects of current Aboriginal economic life in different environments in Australia, and raises questions of economic policy which follow from their results. In this the authors break new ground in the breadth of their canvass and by their extension of issues previously limited to the realm of social welfare to that of economic policy.Table of ContentsList of Tables; List of Maps; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Inequality: an overview; 2. Remote Australia I: government settlements and missions; 3. Remote Australia II: pastoral stations; 4. Remote Australia III: decentralised communities; 5. Settled Australia I: urban and rural communities; 6. Settled Australia II: the major urban areas; 7. Some economic issues; Appendixes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisA Population History of the Huron-Petun, A.D. 500â1650, reconstructs the population history of the Wendat-Tionontatà (Huron-Petun) people using archaeological, paleodemographic, historical, and epidemiological research. This book argues that the Wendat-Tionontatà occupied southern Ontario for thousands of years and that maize agriculture was gradually adopted by groups who were not experiencing population pressure, but who were simply interested in supplementing their hunting, gathering, and fishing diet with a reliable food that could also be stored to avert winter famine deaths. The book demonstrates that gradual population growth followed the adoption of maize agriculture, but that rapid population growth did not occur until the fourteenth century, encouraged by the colonization of new lands. The book also documents and explains why epidemic diseases of European origin did not occur among the Wendat-Tionontatà and other Native peoples of eastern North America until the 1630s.Trade Review“Gary Warrick’s population history of the Wendat-Tiononataté (Huron-Petun) is a must read for all scholars of Native American demographic history. His historiographic analysis of population numbers combined with a critical archaeological assessment of prehistoric population estimates make for a compelling argument that, although devastating, infectious diseases were a late introduction to the region. Disease outbreaks postdated indirect contact by nearly 100 years and direct contact by at least 20 years.” -Anne F. Ramenofsky, University of New Mexico“The rare peculiarities of Northern Iroquoian archaeology make the study of population history possible even in the absence of documentary sources. Gary Warrick’s landmark study of the Huron-Petun is in the grand tradition of Canadian scholarship founded by Bruce G. Trigger, a foundation upon which much future scholarship will certainly be based. While future research will no doubt lead to revisions here than there, as a whole this book is certain to be an enduring classic.” -Dean R. Snow, Penn State University“Garry Warrick's idea of ‘community-based archaeology’, as evinced in this beautiful book he has given us, offers living people of all traditions a simple way for understanding how other fellow-humans have gone about living. Since Life works in cycles, the wisdom of the Huron-Petun can guide and inspire us all in times to come. As a Huron-Wyandot, I feel that Gary Warrick’s respectful, vibrant, future-oriented gaze on my people’s tragic history can help my people and other Indigenous peoples come to terms with the grief we have had.” -Georges Sioui, University of Ottawa"In this major study, Warrick (anthropology, Wilfrd Laurier U., Brantford, Ontario, Canada) offers a detailed history of the Wendat- Tionontat<'e> people of what is now Ontario, Canada. Using a wide range of sources, Warrick reconstructs the population size of the Wendat-Tionantat<'e> over a lengthy period, with detailed discussion of the shifts in family size, in part through the development of maize agriculture. The process of determining population size and change from archaeology, and the theory of population change are discussed at length. A history of Native American population, depopulation, and Iroquoian archaeology are also provided. This is a substantial revision of Warrick's Ph.D. dissertation with the celebrated late archaeologist Bruce Trigger, at McGill U., Canada, and will be of interest to archaeologists, historians, and students of Native American history and culture." -Book News Inc"In this major study, Warrick offers a detailed history of the Wendat- Tionontaté people of what is now Ontario, Canada." -Reference & Research Book News"Overall, Warrick has written a well-researched and cogently argued book." -Roger M. Carpenter, Canadian Journal of History"Warrick previously studied under the late Bruce Trigger while a Ph.D. candidate at McGill University; this definitive study now makes him Trigger's heir apparent as principal scholar in the realm of Huron-Petun studies." -Timothy D. Willig, The HistorianTable of ContentsPart I. Native American Population History: Part II. The Wendat-Tionontaté: 1. Names; 2. The people; 3. The land - Wendake; 4. Study area; 5. Settlement pattern; 6. Subsistence; 7. Life and death; 8. Sociopolitics, trade, and warfare; 9. Wendat-Tionontaté history; Part III. Pre-Industrial Demography: 1. Theories of population change; 2. Culture history and population change; 3. Pre-industrial demography; Part IV. Archaeological Methods for Estimating Population Aize: 1. Middle-range theory in archaeology; 2. Carrying capacity; 3. Population density; 4. Historical census; 5. Artifacts and food remains; 6. Burials; 7. Settlement remains; Part V. Estimating Wendat-Tionontaté Population: 1. Seventeenth-century observations; 2. Iroquoian population research; 3. Estimating Wendat-Tionontaté population change from archaeological data; 4. Site data; 5. Identification of village sites; 6. Representativeness of site sample; 7. Site dating; 8. Ontario Iroquoian chronology; 9. Site periodization; 10. Site duration; 11. Village size data; 12. Hearth counts; 13. Site growth and contemporaneity; 14. Relative Wendat-Tionontaté population estimates; 15. Absolute Wendat-Tionontaté population estimates; Part VI. Pre-Contact Population of the Wendat-Tionontaté: 1. Wendat origins; 2. Middle woodland baseline; 3. Adoption of maize agriculture; 4. Early Iroquoian population growth; 5. Uren colonization; 6. Middleport population explosion; 7. Late pre-contact population nucleation and sociopolitical change; Part VII. Wendat-Tionontaté Depopulation: 1. Sixteenth-century Wendat-Tionontaté population; 2. Seventeenth-century Wendat-Tionontaté population; Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisIn the debates which followed the publication of Darwin's book on the origin of species, Australian Aborigines were used as the ideal exemplars of early human forms by European scholars bent on discovering the origins of social institutions. The Aborigines have consequently featured as the crucial case-study for generations of social theorists, including Tylor, Frazer, Durkheim and Freud. Arguments about Aborigines reviews a range of controversies such as family life, religion and ritual, and land rights, which marked the formative period of British social anthropology. Professor Hiatt also examines how changes in Aboriginal practices have affected scholarly debate. This elegant 1996 book will provide a valuable introduction to aboriginal ethnography for students, scholars and the general reader. It is also a shrewd and stimulating history of the great debates of anthropology, seen through the prism of Aboriginal studies.Trade Review'… handsome and elegantly written book … L. R. Hiatt leads us with a sure hand and dry humour through this personal selection of Arguments about Aborigines.' Ian Keen, The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Prologue; 2. Real estates and phantom hordes; 3. Group marriage; 4. The woman question; 5. People without politics; 6. High gods; 7. Conception and misconception; 8. Dangerous mothers-in-law and disfigured sisters; 9. Initiation: the case of the cheeky yam; 10. Epilogue; Notes; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisBy analysing the oral histories, myths and legends of the Kanyok, John Yoder describes the political and cultural development of a people who, before 1891, had no written records. His history forms the nucleus for a broader and more composite understanding of the entire southern savanna region of Zaire.Trade Review"...an important contribution to our understanding of precolonial intellectual history in Africa." David Newbury, American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsList of maps and figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chronology; Introduction; 1. Wood and wine, gardens and game; 2. Stratification, symbols and spirits; 3. New legends for new leaders; 4. Serpents and lightning; 5. Dances, moats and myths; 6. Combat, classes, titles and trade; 7. Schisms and slaves, ghosts and guns; 8. Assassinations, alliances and ambushes; Appendix: methodology; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisWho were the first Americans? What's their relationship to native peoples in today's Americas? The First Americans uses racial classification and population genetics to show how different methods and assumptions produce very different interpretations of the same skeletal data. Recommended for anthropologists interested in the history of the earliest Americans.Trade Review' … an interesting and provocative standpoint and an enrichment of the general debate.' Journal of Comparative Human BiologyTable of ContentsPrologue: The Kennewick Controversy; Part I. Race and Variation: 1. Debating the origins of Native Americans; 2. A brief history of race; 3. Evolutionary approaches to human variation; 4. Recent population variation in the Americas; Part II. The Pleistocene Peopling of America: 5. The Pleistocene and Ice-Age environments; 6. Ancient cultures and migration to the Americas; 7. Kennewick Man and his contemporaries; 8. Human variation in the Pleistocene; Part III. The First Americans, Race and Evolution: 9. Racial models of Native American origins; 10. Evolutionary models of Native American origins; 11. The first Americans: Native American origins; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThis is an important book, whose content is unlike any other. It is about indigenous peoples and their traditional and contemporary ways of living. Elders is a series of chapters authored by tribal elders from around Australia. Each chapter describes an important aspect of contemporary tribal life, and the elder speaks on behalf of his or her tribe - explaining what rituals they hold to, what understandings of the world they have. They talk about subjects such as The Land, The Sea, Spirit, Law, Family, Healing, Ceremony, Song, and Hunting. Peter McConchie has travelled to the far corners of the continent to listen and record what elders have to say. They speak simply and movingly, and visually stunning photography supports their words. Elders is a book to appeal to the widest possible audience. It is the most representative account of Aboriginal people's lives, culture and beliefs in book form.Trade Review'Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are of the Land and Sea. We fit into it, we are shaped by it. Our teaching comes from the Earth itself, by knowing the Mangrove, how deep its story, or the Eucalypt tree, where does it go down to, what level. Knowing the earth is the centre of our wisdom. Among us there have been no written laws; our traditions are passed down through the spoken word from one generation to the next. Unity, not division, sharing rather than hoarding is our way. So now, we write to you in your language with our timeless wisdom. Learn from us, as we have had to learn from you.' Mandawuy Yunupingu'With a wonderful book like this, one wishes that it could be a thousand pages long and that Elders from every nation and every clan within Australia and the Torres Strait Islands could be listened to and their knowledge made available to all. To the Elders not included, an apology is made. Within this book there are seventeen Elders who speak for their country. In doing so they speak about a universal knowledge that connects us and belongs to us all. These pages contain the true voice of the land and the sea.' Lowitja O'DonoghueTable of Contents1. Healing; 2. The land; 3. Hunting; 4. Gathering; 5. Family; 6. Lore/law; 7. Spirit; 8. The sea; 9. Ceremony and song.

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first modern ethnography of the Murik, a relatively large and important community settled on the Sepik River estuary in Papua New Guinea, and the only book of a non-Western culture drawing on the conceptual framework of the Russian literary theorist, Mikhail Bakhtin.Trade Review'Mangrove man is a powerful and compelling addition to the theoretical repertoire which has been brought to bear on Melanesian gender, ritual and politics.' Canberra AnthropologyTable of Contents1. Introduction; Part I. Dialogics of the Maternal Schema and the Uterine Body: 2. A predicament in space; 3. The maternal schema and the uterine body; 4. The heraldic body; 5. Who succeeded Ginau?; Part II. Dialogics of the Maternal Schema and the Cosmic Body of Man: 6. A body more carnal; 7. The sexuality and aggression of the cosmic body; Part III. Dialogics of the Maternal Schema in Social Control: 8. Conflict and reproduction of society; 9. Social control and law.

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first modern ethnography of the Murik, a relatively large and important community settled on the Sepik River estuary in Papua New Guinea, and the only book of a non-Western culture drawing on the conceptual framework of the Russian literary theorist, Mikhail Bakhtin. Murik men, who exercise political power, conceptualize women as the source of nurture, generosity and love. This conceptualization creates for men a kind of existential problem, and their claim to sustain and reproduce society requires them to appropriate the nurturant qualities of women. So they must, in some sense, model certain aspects of themselves after women. A 'maternal schema' or 'poetics of the female body', therefore underlines the sociocultural patterns of these societies. This schema expresses itself in a range of societal domains: in kinship relations, life-cycle rituals, the men's cults, and in disputes and processes of conflict resolution. The issues discussed tie in with some of the major cTrade Review'Mangrove man is a powerful and compelling addition to the theoretical repertoire which has been brought to bear on Melanesian gender, ritual and politics.' Canberra AnthropologyTable of Contents1. Introduction; Part I. Dialogics of the Maternal Schema and the Uterine Body: 2. A predicament in space; 3. The maternal schema and the uterine body; 4. The heraldic body; 5. Who succeeded Ginau?; Part II. Dialogics of the Maternal Schema and the Cosmic Body of Man: 6. A body more carnal; 7. The sexuality and aggression of the cosmic body; Part III. Dialogics of the Maternal Schema in Social Control: 8. Conflict and reproduction of society; 9. Social control and law.

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Book SynopsisArguments about Aborigines examines controversial subjects such as family life, religion and ritual, and land rights through the prism of Aboriginal studies. Professor Hiatt's 1996 book provides a valuable introduction to Aboriginal ethnography, and is a stimulating history of the central questions in Aboriginal studies.Trade Review'… handsome and elegantly written book … L. R. Hiatt leads us with a sure hand and dry humour through this personal selection of Arguments about Aborigines.' Ian Keen, The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Prologue; 2. Real estates and phantom hordes; 3. Group marriage; 4. The woman question; 5. People without politics; 6. High gods; 7. Conception and misconception; 8. Dangerous mothers-in-law and disfigured sisters; 9. Initiation: the case of the cheeky yam; 10. Epilogue; Notes; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisBased on three decades of ethnographic fieldwork and documentary research, this 1997 book traces the political and social history of the Shahsevan, one of the major nomadic peoples of Iran.Trade Review'This book is a study of considerable erudition and practical good sense, the result of extensive documentary research and intensive fieldwork … much enriched by historical detail and pertinent comment … it is remarkable how much this demanding but informative study conveys to the reader with great integrity, clarity and judgement.' Asian Affairs'Frontier Nomads is an impressive work of scholarship, demonstrating the breadth of Tapper's knowledge and his historical as well as ethnographic skills, and his ability to combine them to good effect … definitely required reading for anyone interested in the history and society of Iran and the relationship between tribe and state in general.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African StudiesTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Note on transliteration; Glossary; 1. Writing tribal history; Part I. The Safavid State and the Origins of the Shahsevan: 2. 'Shahsevani': Safavid tribal policy and practice; 3. Shahsevan traditions; 4. Moghan and Ardabil in Safavid times; Part II. The Rise of the Shahsevan Confederacy: 5. Badr Khan Sari-Khan-Beyli; 6. Nazar 'Ali Khan Shahsevan of Ardabil; 7. The Shahsevan tribal confederacy; Part III. The Shahsevan Tribes in the Great Game: 8. The Russian wars and the loss of Moghan; 9. The Shahsevan nomads in the mid-nineteenth century; 10. Nomads and commissars in Moghan; Part IV. The End of the Tribal Confederacy: 11. Pastures new: the effects of the frontier closure; 12. The Shahsevan, the Constitution, the Great War and after; 13. Settlement and detribalization; 14. Conclusion: Shahsevan identity and history; Appendices; Bibliography; Indexes.

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Book SynopsisWho are the Native Americans? How and when was the New World originally colonized? What was the scale of the devastating collision between European and Native American cultures following contact? This fascinating account looks at the genetic, archaeological and demographic evidence for the peopling of the Americas.Trade Review"It really serves as a comprehensive review of the human biology of native Americans in the broadest sense, with topics ranging from origins to contemporary population structure to demography and epidemiology...Crawford's book is not just of value to researchers interested in native Americans as a geographic region or population genetics as a topical area; rather, it has something for everyone and is destined to be a classic work in human biology." Human Biology"Professor Crawford's book is thoroughly recommended, not only for its factual content and argument, but also for the considered opinions of the author on much of the material he has consulted in writing it. All who are working on biological questions on or about Amerindian peoples will find it essential to read." Human Genetics"...this excellent book...serves as a comprehensive review of the human biology of native Americans in the broadest sense, with topics ranging from origins to contemporary population structure to demography and epidemiology. Crawford's book is not just of value to researchers interested in native Americans as a geographic region or population genetics as a topical area; rather, it has something for everyone and is destined to be a classic work in human biology." John H. Relethford, Human Biology"The book shows what a wide variety of factors it is necessary to consider in attempting to understand the genetic evolution of a population...Professor Crawford's book is thoroughly recommended, not only for its factual content and argument, but also for the considered opinions of the author on much of the material he has consulted in writing it. All who are working on biological questions on or about Amerindian peoples will find it essential to read." Human Genetics"...The origins of Native Americans is an engaging and thoughtful account of the population history of aboriginal groups from Siberia and the Americas based on anthropological genetic data." Theodore G. Schurr, Great Plains ResearchTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Origins of New World populations; 2. Population size and the effects of European contact; 3. Demography of Amerindian populations; 4. Genetic variation in contemporary populations of the Americas; 5. Population structure of Native Americans; 6. Morphological variation; 7. The survivors; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe book, first published in 2004, provides an overview of the relations between the Plains Sioux Indians and the United States from 1804 to 1890 (the Wounded Knee massacre). The main purpose of the book is to show how various Sioux communities and leaders responded to the growing power of the United States.Trade Review'This book is an important one. It will make you think.' South Dakota History' … a new way of viewing the history of the Plains Sioux and their interaction with US government … author forces the reader to reconsider previously held ideas and to question the validity of sources usually employed to narrate the past … Ostler seeks to untangle assumptions about the motives of Ghost Dancers or of leaders like Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, illustrating the complexity of each choice made by the Sioux … Ostler's re-examination of the Plains Sioux story adds another important work to a recent wave of scholarship that sees significant agency in colonized people. this important layer of the human story helps correct the long canon of history written by the conquerors or colonizers. the author uses an engaging, narrative style and weaves story and analysis skillfully together. … excellent work and a significant addition to scholarship on the Plains Sioux.' Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History'Jeffery Ostler's The Palins Sioux and U.S. Colonialism form Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee offers professional historians and history students an insider's perspective of U.S. expansionism. … What makes Ostler's study valuable is that it can serve both as as a reference work for professors who need to expand or support their claims of American settlement as well as to Student's requiring an introductory text to American colonialism.' CerclesTable of ContentsIntroduction: colonialism, agency and power; Part I. Conquest: 1. 'Vilest Miscreants of the Savage Race': the Plains Sioux in an empire of liberty; 2. 'Futile Efforts to Subjugate Them': failures of conquest; 3. 'Doubtless an Unauthorized Promise': the politics of the Great Sioux war; 4. 'Force is the Only Thing': the killing of Crazy Horse; Part II. Colonialism: 5. 'We Were Raised in This Country': claiming place; 6. 'I Work So Much It Makes Me Poor': the reservation economy; 7. 'Just as Well with My Hair On': colonial education; 8. 'All Men are Different': the politics of religion and culture; 9. 'Great Trouble and Bad Feeling': government agents and Sioux leaders; 10. 'Enough to Crush Us Down': struggles for Land; Part III. Anticolonialism and the State: 11. 'When the Earth Shakes Do Not Be Afraid': the Ghost Dance as an anticolonial movement; 12. 'To Bring My People Back into the Hoop': the development of the Lakota Ghost Dance; 13. 'The Most Serious Indian War of Our History': the army's invasion; 14. 'If He Fights, Destroy Him': the road to Wounded Knee; 15. 'A Valley of Death': Wounded Knee; Conclusion: after Wounded Knee.

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the practice of rationing goods to Aboriginal people in Central Australia, arguing that it was a fundamental, though flexible, instrument of colonial government. Combining history and anthropology in a cultural study, Rowse develops a new narrative of the colonisation of Central Australia.Trade Review'… innovative and meticulously researched … this is a challenging study in historical anthropology'. The Australian'… offers some invaluable insights … With the rise of the One Nation Party in Australia, this thoughtful analysis of colonial history is timely.' The Times Literary Supplement'An engaging book, and well worth reading.' Journal of Sociology' … a good, well-researched and cogently argued study of Aboriginal policy in central Australia … It sparkles with intelligent insights.' Henry Reynolds, Australian Journal of Political ScienceTable of ContentsA theatre of stages; Part I: 1. Rationing the inexplicable; 2. Rationed actors; Part II: 3. Rural central Australia, 1914–40; 4. Town, cash and supervision; 5. 'A Christian cannot be a parasite'; 6. The World War in town and hinterland; Conclusion: Indigenous welfare at mid-century; Part III: 7. 'Assimilation; 8. The crisis of managed consumption; 9. Settlements and families; 10. Alice Springs and its town camps; Continuities.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the history of indigenous Australians' citizenship status and asks, is it possible for indigenous Australians to be members of a common society on equal terms with others? Leading commentators from a range of disciplines examine the past, present and future of indigenous rights.Trade Review'This important book challenges the reader to address the full complexity of the concept of indigenous citizenship.' Tony Bauman, Indigenous Law Bulletin'… a comprehensive and well-grounded view of citizenship, making a timely and intelligent contribution to an issue which is foundational to negotiations between mainstream Australia and its indigenous population.' The Journal of the Royal Anthropological InstituteTable of Contents1. Introduction Nicolas Peterson and Will Sanders; Part I. Historical Conceptions: 2. Nineteenth century bureaucratic constructions of indigenous identities in New South Wales Marilyn Wood; 3. From nomadism to citizenship: A. P. Elkin and Aboriginal advancement Geoff Gray; Part II. Contemporary Conceptions: 4. Indigenous citizenship and self-determination: the problem of shared responsibilities Tim Rowse; 5. Welfare colonialism and citizenship: politics, economics and agency Nicolas Peterson; 6. Representation matters: the 1967 referendum and citizenship Bain Attwood and Andrew Marcus; 7. Citizenship and the CDEP scheme: equal rights, difference and appropriateness Will Sanders; 8. Citizenship and the logic of resource development: indigenous responses to mining in the Gulf country David Trigger; Part III. Emerging Possibilities: 9. Whose citizen? Whose country? Peter Read; 10. Citizenship and legitimacy in post-colonial Australia Richard Mulgan; 11. International law context Garth Nettheim; 12. Sovereignty Henry Reynolds.

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Book SynopsisThis 1999 book relates how an aristocratic discourse on American Indians took shape in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Titled and educated European visitors to North America, with the background of the French Revolution in mind, developed a new belief in their affinity with the warrior elites of Indian societies.Trade Review"...this smoothly written, carefully constructed book is of interest to Indian historians. By broadening perspectives beyond American shores on the processes by which non-Indians have historically reinterpreted the meaning of Indianness, Liebersohn makes a contribution to a vital area of scholarship." American Indian Quarterly"[Liebersohn's] book will interest all students of Romanticism, travel writing, and modernism. Evocative and gracefully written, Aristocratic Encounters brings to life the diverse culture of North American Indians and the images and categories through which European travelers tended to interpret that culture." Journal of Modern History"...Aristocratic Encounters has many strong suits. It is clearly written and lacks jargon. It also possesses a creative structure." June Namias, The Journal of American History"...the significance of this work for understanding the ways that nineteenth-century French and German elites perceived themselves and the ways that they employed symbols of the New World to demonstrate their social status in a new Europe is exceptional." The Historian"Aristocratic Encounters is a valuable contribution to the history of travel writing and its relation to empire." Itinerario"Harry Liebersohn has provided a compact, concise addition to the burgeoning literature on European contact with non-Europeans and European constructions of the 'other'...this book is truly European in its authorship and approach. The entire book, indeed, is a series of useful summaries of historical knowledge to date...admirable book." American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. From Neoclassicism to Romanticism: France and American Indians 1682–1815; 1. Indians in the French Enlightenment; 2. Chateaubriand and the fiction of Native Aristocrats; Part II. Ending a Tradition: The French Romantic Travelers, 1815–48; 3. Critics and nostalgics; 4. Tocqueville and the sociology of native aristocrats; Part III. Founding a Tradition: The German Romantic Travelers: 5. Immigrants and educated observers; 6. Maximilian and the ethnography of Native Aristocrats; Epilogue: a world of new aristocrats.

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Book SynopsisPrehistoric Native Americans and Ecological Change demonstrates the importance of prehistoric human activities in the ecology of eastern North America, and as such has important implications for conservation biology, forest management and ecological restoration today.Trade Review'… the book is a welcome addition to the study on human ecosystems in prehistoric times … [it] merits attention as an important study in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology.' International StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Part I. Panarchy as an Integrative Paradigm: Overview; 1. The need for a new synthesis; 2. Panarchy theory and Quaternary ecosystems; 3. Holocene human ecosystems; Part II. Ecological Feedbacks and Processes: Overview; 4. Gene-level interactions; 5. Population-level interactions; 6. Community-level interactions; 7. Landscape-level interactions; 8. Regional-level interactions; Part III. Application and Synthesis: Overview; 9. The ecological legacy of prehistoric Native Americans; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisExamines how the Wampanoag Indians' adoption of Christianity and other selective borrowing from English culture contributed to Indian/English coexistence and the long-term survival of Wampanoag communities on the island of Martha's Vineyard, even as the racial barrier between peoples grew more rigid.Trade Review'David J. Silverman's deeply researched and gracefully written study of the Christian Wampanoag Indians of Martha's Vineyard makes a significant contribution to the growing body of literature on the Indians of early America. … This elegantly written, exhaustively researched book deserves a wide readership and is sure to have a lasting impact on our understanding of the role of Christianity in early American Indian history.' The Journal of Ecclesiastical HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction: Epenow's lessons; 1. 'Here comes the Englishman'; 2. To become all things to all men; 3. The Lord tests the righteous; 4. Deposing the Sachem to defend the Sachemship; 5. Leading values; 6. The costs of debt; 7. 'Newcomers and strangers'; Conclusion: fencing in, fencing out.

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Book SynopsisSince the 1967 constitutional referendum, Australian governments have moved towards policies of indigenous self-determination. This book, first published in 2000, presents the central issue of self-determination, as seen by Dr H. C. Coombs: through what political mechanisms will indigenous Australians find their own voice?Trade Review'Rowse has produced the first comprehensive political history of the federal administration of indigenous affairs in late twentieth-century Australia … for those interested in his innovative approach to governance, Obliged to be Difficult is an essential work.' The Times Literary Supplement'… for those who want to understand how negotiations evolved between indigenous groups and successive Australian governments, or who want to draw useful comparisons with other such interactions, this volume offers real insights into the complexities of the process. It also paints a fine biographic portrait of an extraordinary man.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological InstituteTable of Contents1. The modest mandate of 1967; 2. 'Land ownership for Aborigines presents difficult problems'; 3. Mediating the Yolngu; 4. Voice and feet; 5. North and South; 6. A national Indigenous leadership?; 7. Clans and councils; 8. As nasty a piece of chicanery as I can remember; 9. Effectively Aboriginal; 10. An Indigenous public sphere; 11. From James Cook to Eva Valley; 12. The 1940s in the 1990s.

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Book SynopsisSince the 1967 constitutional referendum, Australian governments have moved towards policies of indigenous self-determination. This book, first published in 2000, presents the central issue of self-determination, as seen by Dr H. C. Coombs: through what political mechanisms will indigenous Australians find their own voice?Trade Review'Rowse has produced the first comprehensive political history of the federal administration of indigenous affairs in late twentieth-century Australia … for those interested in his innovative approach to governance, Obliged to be Difficult is an essential work.' The Times Literary Supplement'… for those who want to understand how negotiations evolved between indigenous groups and successive Australian governments, or who want to draw useful comparisons with other such interactions, this volume offers real insights into the complexities of the process. It also paints a fine biographic portrait of an extraordinary man.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological InstituteTable of Contents1. The modest mandate of 1967; 2. 'Land ownership for Aborigines presents difficult problems'; 3. Mediating the Yolngu; 4. Voice and feet; 5. North and South; 6. A national Indigenous leadership?; 7. Clans and councils; 8. As nasty a piece of chicanery as I can remember; 9. Effectively Aboriginal; 10. An Indigenous public sphere; 11. From James Cook to Eva Valley; 12. The 1940s in the 1990s.

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Book SynopsisThis original ethnography brings indigenous people's stories into conversations around troubling questions of social justice and environmental care. Deborah Bird Rose lived for two years with the Yarralin community in the Northern Territory's remote Victoria River Valley. Her engagement with the people's stories and their action in the world leads her to this analysis of a multi-centred poetics of life and land. The book speaks to issues that are of immediate and broad concern today: traditional ecological knowledge, kinship between humans and other living things, colonising history, environmental history, and sacred geography. Now in paperback, this award-winning exploration of the Yarralin people is available to a whole new readership. The boldly direct and personal approach will be illuminating and accessible to general readers, while also of great value to experienced anthropologists.Table of Contents1. Remembrance; 2. Expectations; 3. Earthborn law; 4. Living and dead bodies; 5. An emu is not a catfish; 6. The gift of life; 7. Dream country; 8. To have and to hold; 9. Freehold; 10. Testing; 11. Jacky Jacky; 12. Life time; 13. This earth.

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Patty Gray explores the reasons why the 'indigenous rights movement' of the Chukotko people of the Russian Far North has been unsuccessful. She argues that the movement is a continuation of Soviet tendencies rather than something comparable to Native Rights movements in the Russian Far North.Trade Review'Gray insightfully approaches this situation in terms of control of space … it provides the context necessary to understand the situation in Chokotka today. I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Chukotka and in indigenous issues more generally.' Virginie Vaté, Siberian Studies Centre, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, GermanyTable of ContentsPreface: Chukotka in the twenty-first century; Acknowledgements; Notes on transliteration; Vignette: 1948; 1. Epitomizing events; Vignette: 1956; 2. Starting a movement in Chukotka; Vignette: 1967; 3. The limits of resistance; Vignette: 1971; 4. Toward a history of Soviet Chukotka; Vignette: 1980; 5. Indigenous culture in a Russian space; Vignette: 1989; 6. Transformation of local politics in Chukotka; Vignette: 1996; 7. Socio-economic conditions in post-Soviet Chukotka; Vignette: 2002; Epilogue.

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Book SynopsisIn the twentieth century, indigenous people in Latin America started to speak out, mobilize, and organize in unprecedented ways. This book asks: why are indigenous people mobilizing now and why only in specific places? This book answers these questions with insight into their advancement and reform of democracy.Trade Review'… a rigorous theoretical framework to a study of democratic issues related to ethnic movements … the book … will inspire students in international relations, political science, indigenous studies and sociology of development.' Political Studies Review'Deborah Yashar has processed and put together in a coherent framework an enormous amount of data provided by documents, interviews and secondary literature. … the book has made an outstanding contribution in clarifying not only the conditions of possibility and development, but also the deep meaning of indigenous struggles …' Nations and NationalismTable of ContentsPart I. Theoretical Framing: 1. Questions, approaches, and cases; 2. Citizenship regimes, the state, and ethnic cleavages; 3. The argument: indigenous mobilization in Latin America; Part II. The Cases: 4. Ecuador: Latin America's strongest indigenous movement; 5. The Ecuadorian Andes and ECUARUNARI; 6. The Ecuadorian Amazon and CONFENAIE; 7. Forming the National Confederation, CONAIE; 8. Bolivia: strong regional movements; 9. The Bolivian Andes: the Kataristas and their legacy; 10. The Bolivian Amazon; 11. Peru: weak national movements and subnational variation; 12. Peru. Ecuador, and Bolivia: most similar cases; 13. No national indigenous movement: explaining the Peruvian anomaly; 14. Explaining subnational variation; 15. Conclusion: 16. Democracy and the postliberal challenge in Latin America.

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Book SynopsisThe debate on indigenous rights has revealed some serious difficulties for international law, posed mainly by different understandings of important concepts. This book explores the extent to which indigenous claims, as recorded in the United Nations forums, can be accommodated by international law.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: '… this book provides a useful introduction to indigenous rights. … It offers a helpful overview of a difficult subject, and may well whet the appetite of the interested student.' Gordon BennettReview of the hardback: '… a real contribution to the on-going debate regarding the rights of indigenous peoples. It is written clearly, in an interesting and easy-for-reading style and is supported by a substantial bibliography. It can be recommended to all who are interested in an in-depth analysis regarding the international rights or indigenous peoples.' Netherlands Quarterly of Human RightsReview of the hardback: 'The book succeeds in capturing the substantial dimension of indigenous claims and related challenges to traditional international law, offering an important contribution to the growing international literature on indigenous rights. It suits both a reader without specialist knowledge of the subject, who can benefit from the general analysis of the current, and emerging, indigenous rights regime, and a more expert reader who can delve into interesting discussions on some of the most controversial issues arising within the indigenous debate in the international arena.' International and Comparative QuarterlyReview of the hardback: 'This book is nowhere more successful than when it is dealing with the 'thorny topic' of self-determination. The author has a deep knowledge of this area and she writes about it with a sure touch. … In this impressive book, Xanthaki explores a rich variety of international standards that support the evolution of indigenous rights. She marshals these often fragmentary sources, organising them into a coherent account of current international law. She condenses the voluminous literature on each of the book's themes into accessible chapters without diminishing the quality of her scholarship, which is a considerable achievement given the explosion in the discourse on indigenous rights during the last two decades. For the most part, she adopts a pragmatic approach to identifying the lex lata on indigenous rights and she sharpens the existing set of tools so that they can be applied with maximum effect. In this respect, her book is a worthy successor to Thornberry's Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights.' Wiley InterScienceReview of the hardback: '… an impressively researched, well written textbook-like book on indigenous peoples' rights and United Nations' standards that is also an immensely valuable teaching tool.' Human Rights Law ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Recognition of cultural membership; 2. United Nations instruments on indigenous peoples; 3. Emerging law: the United Nations draft declaration on indigenous peoples; 4. Do indigenous peoples have the right to self-determination?; 5. Indigenous cultural rights; 6. Indigenous land rights; Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisExamines how the Wampanoag Indians' adoption of Christianity and other selective borrowing from English culture contributed to Indian/English coexistence and the long-term survival of Wampanoag communities on the island of Martha's Vineyard, even as the racial barrier between peoples grew more rigid.Trade Review'David J. Silverman's deeply researched and gracefully written study of the Christian Wampanoag Indians of Martha's Vineyard makes a significant contribution to the growing body of literature on the Indians of early America. … This elegantly written, exhaustively researched book deserves a wide readership and is sure to have a lasting impact on our understanding of the role of Christianity in early American Indian history.' The Journal of Ecclesiastical HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction: Epenow's lessons; 1. 'Here comes the Englishman'; 2. To become all things to all men; 3. The Lord tests the righteous; 4. Deposing the Sachem to defend the Sachemship; 5. Leading values; 6. The costs of debt; 7. 'Newcomers and strangers'; Conclusion: fencing in, fencing out.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on evidence from a wide array of musical, linguistic, and visual sources, this book demonstrates that early American colonization shaped European music cultures in fundamental ways. It offers a fresh, politically and transculturally informed approach to the study of music in the early colonial Atlantic world.Trade Review"Bloechl’s detailed investigation of relationships and interfaces, conflicts and accommodations, is wide-ranging, thoughtful, and persuasive. Her book is an important contribution not only to music studies but to Native American Studies, a broad, interdisciplinary field. --Journal of American Ethnic HistoryTable of Contents1. On colonial difference and musical frontiers: directions for a postcolonial musicology; Part I. Transatlantic Savagery: 2. Protestant imperialism and the metaphysics of new world song; 3. The voice of possession; 4. The voice of prophecy; Part II. Staging the Indian: 5. Musicking Indians in the Stuart court masque; 6. Savage Lully; 7. Rameau's Les sauvages and the aporia of musical nature; Conclusion. Opera, elsewhere.

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Book SynopsisDescribes a unique case of sign language that served as an international language among numerous Native American nations not sharing a common spoken language. The book contains the most current descriptions of all levels of the language from phonology to discourse, as well as comparisons with other sign languages.Trade Review'With its very comprehensive account of the study and structure of Plains Indian Sign Language, with the valuable links that it provides to sign languages used by deaf people and with its accompanying website, this volume is a wonderful and timely resource.' Ceil Lucas, Gallaudet University'This is not just another book! It is a riveting narrative of an endangered Native American sign language that has served an essential role in Native American culture and life. For sign language studies, Native American studies, linguistics, anthropology, and a host of other allied professionals, as well as for the American public, Jeff Davis has made a momentous professional and social contribution. This is a landmark work that deserves the widest professional and popular audience.' Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State UniversityTable of Contents1. The language landscape; 2. Earliest historical linguistic accounts; 3. A national treasure; 4. Early sign language studies; 5. The spectrum of discourse; 6. The convergence of anthropology and linguistics; 7. Comparative studies of historical relatedness; 8. Linguistic analysis of PISL; 9. Conclusions.

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