Indigeneity on the move : varying manifestations of a contested concept /

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Author / Creator:Gerharz, Eva, author.
Imprint:New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.
©2018
Description:1 online resource (xvii, 326 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13562684
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Other authors / contributors:Nasir Uddin (Anthropologist), author.
Chakkarath, P. (Pradeep), 1960- author.
ISBN:9781785337239
1785337238
9781785337222
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 10, 2020).
Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Gerharz, Eva. Indigeneity on the move. First edition. New York : Berghahn Books, [2018] 9781785337222
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Exploring Indigeneity : Introductory Remarks of a Contested Concept ; 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.