The Fabric of Indigeneity
Ainu Identity, Gender, and Settler Colonialism in Japan
Indian Subjects
Hemispheric Perspectives on the History of Indigenous Education
Indian Subjects brings together an outstanding group of scholars from the fields of anthropology, history, law, education, literature, and Native studies to address indigenous education throughout different regions and eras.
Otros Saberes
Collaborative Research on Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Cultural Politics
The six research projects that form the core of the Otros Saberes initiative bring together a diverse group of Afro-descendant and indigenous collaborations with academics. The focus of each research project is driven by a strategic priority in the life of the community, organization, or social movement concerned. This book, written in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, provides an explanation of the key analytical questions and findings of each project.
No Deal!
Indigenous Arts and the Politics of Possession
No Deal! encompasses a diverse group of artists, curators, art historians, and anthropologists from Australia and North America in order to investigate social relations of possession through the artifacts and motifs of Indigenous expressive culture. The contributors speak from the standpoints of Indigenous systems of knowledge as well as from western epistemologies and their institutions, interrogating what it means to "own culture." The case studies in this volume contribute to notions of "ownership" and "possession" through the lens of art and its associated rights to production, circulation, performance, and representation.
Remapping Bolivia
Resources, Territory, and Indigeneity in a Plurinational State
The 2005 election of Evo Morales to the presidency of Bolivia marked a critical moment of transformation--a coca farmer and peasant union leader became the first indigenous president in the history of the Americas.
Roosters at Midnight
Indigenous Signs and Stigma in Local Bolivian Politics
Roosters at Midnight is an ethnography about the political lives and careers of a growing urban-dwelling and indigenous constituency that operates primarily within the informal economy in and around the provincial capital Quillacollo.
One State, Many Nations
Indigenous Rights Struggles in Ecuador
This book traces the process of self-organization and emergence within Ecuador's Indigenous movement from 1998 to 2008 for the Zápara nationality, one of the smallest Indigenous groups in Ecuador, to explore the complex role that multiculturalism has played in local identity politics.
Maya Nationalisms and Postcolonial Challenges in Guatemala
Coloniality, Modernity, and Identity Politics
This book focuses on the emergence and political-cultural implications of Guatemala's Maya movement.
Our Indian Princess
Subverting the Stereotype
In this path breaking study, anthropologist Nancy Marie Mithlo examines the power of stereotypes, the utility of pan-Indianism, the significance of realist ideologies, and the employment of alterity in Native American arts.
Aboriginal Business
Alliances in a Remote Australian Town
From the vantage point of the remote Northern Territory town of Tennant Creek in Australia, this book examines the practical partnerships and awkward alliances that constitute Indigenous modernities. It is an ethnographic snapshot of the Warumungu people as they engage with a range of interlocutors, including transnational railroad companies, national mining groups, international tourists, and regional businesses.
Beyond Red Power
American Indian Politics and Activism since 1900
How do we explain not just the survival of Indian people in the United States against very long odds but their growing visibility and political power at the opening of the twenty-first century?