Description
Book Synopsis “Indigeneity” has become a prominent yet contested concept in national and international politics, as well as within the social sciences. This edited volume draws from authors representing different disciplines and perspectives, exploring the dependence of indigeneity on varying sociopolitical contexts, actors, and discourses with the ultimate goal of investigating the concept’s scientific and political potential.
Trade Review “I look forward to bringing this book into my upperdivision classroom. It is yet another excellent tool for shaking up easy assumptions and problematizing taken-for-granted concepts, something we anthropologists ideally endeavor to accomplish in all that we do.” • American Ethnologist
“This very interesting and insightful collection takes the focus of discussion around the concept of indigeneity away from its normal parameters, instead examining how the concept has taken root outside the European and North American contexts, transforming the concept of indigeneity.” • Evelyn Plaice, University of New Brunswick
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
Preface
Adam Kuper
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Exploring Indigeneity: Introductory Remarks
Nasir Uddin, Eva Gerharz, and Pradeep Chakkarath
PART I: STRUGGLES OVER LAND AND RESOURCES
Chapter 1. On the Nature of Indigenous Land: Ownership, Access and Farming in Upland Northeast India
Erik de Maaker
Chapter 2. Considering the Implications of the Concept of Indigeneity for Land and Natural Resource Management in Cambodia, Thailand, and Laos
Ian G. Baird
PART II: BECOMING INDIGENOUS
Chapter 3. Processes of Modernization, Processes of Indigenization: an Amazonian Case (Yanomami, Southern Venezuela)
Gabriele Herzog-Schröder
Chapter 4. Indigenous Activism Beyond Ethnic Groups: Shifting Boundaries and Constellations of Belonging
Eva Gerharz
Chapter 5. In Search of Self: Identity, Indigeneity, and Cultural Politics in Bangladesh
Nasir Uddin
PART III: INDIGENEITY AS A POLITICAL RESOURCE
Chapter 6. Different Trajectories of Indigenous Rights Movements in Africa: Insights from Cameroon and Tanzania
Michaela Pelican
Chapter 7. Politics of Indigeneity in the Andean Highlands: Indigenous Social Movements and the State in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru (1940–2015)
Olaf Kaltmeier
Chapter 8. Conflicting Dimensions of Indigeneity as a Contested Political Resource in Contemporary Mexico
Gilberto Rescher
PART IV: INDIGENEITY AND THE STATE
Chapter 9. Intimate Antagonisms: Adivasis and the State in Contemporary India
Uday Chandra
Chapter 10. Indigeneity, Culture and the State: Social Change and Legal Reforms in Latin America
Wolfgang Gabbert
Chapter 11. Fluid Indigeneities in the Indian Ocean: A Small History of the State and its Other
Philipp Zehmisch
Postscriptum: The Futures of Indigenous Medicine: Networks, Contexts, Freedom
William S. Sax
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