A century ago, the idea of indigenous people as an active force in the contemporary world was unthinkable. It was assumed that native societies everywhere would be swept away by the forward march of the West and its own peculiar brand of progress and civilization.В Nothing could be further from the truth. Indigenous social movements wield new power, and groups as diverse as Australian Aborigines, Ecuadorian Quichuas, and New Zealand Maoris, have found their own distinctive and assertive ways of living in the present world. Indigenous Experience Today draws together essays by prominent scholars in anthropology and other fields examining the varied face of indigenous politics in Bolivia, Botswana, Canada, Chile, China, Indonesia, and the United States, amongst others. The study challenges the accepted notions of indigeneity and the often contentious issue of indigenous rights. Indigenous Experience Today demonstrates the transnational dynamics of contemporary indigenous culture and politics around the world.
Series: Wenner-Gren International Symposium Series
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Year: 2007
Language: English
Commentary: 27427
Pages: 424
Contents......Page 6
Participants at the Wenner-Gren Foundation International Symposium "Indigenous Experience Today"......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Part 1: Indigenous Identities, Old and New......Page 40
1. Indigenous Voice......Page 42
2. Tibetan Indigeneity: Translations, Resemblances, and Uptake......Page 78
3. "Our Struggle Has Just Begun": Experiences of Belonging and Mapuche Formations of Self......Page 108
Part 2: Territory and Questions of Sovereignty......Page 132
4. Indigeneity as Relational Identity: The Construction of Australian Land Rights......Page 134
5. Choctaw Tribal Sovereignty at the Turn of the 21st Century......Page 160
6. Sovereignty's Betrayals......Page 180
Part 3: Indigeneity Beyond Borders......Page 204
7. Varieties of Indigenous Experience: Diasporas, Homelands, Sovereignties......Page 206
8. Diasporic Media and Hmong/Miao Formulations of Nativeness and Displacement......Page 234
9. Bolivian Indigeneity in Japan: Folklorized Music Performance......Page 256
Part 4: The Boundary Politics of Indigeneity......Page 282
10. Indian Indigeneities: Adivasi Engagements with Hindu Nationalism in India......Page 284
11. "Ever-Diminishing Circles": The Paradoxes of Belonging in Botswana......Page 314
12. The Native and the Neoliberal Down Under: Neoliberalism and "Endangered Authenticities"......Page 342
Part 5: Indigenous Self-Representation, Non-Indigenous Collaborators and the Politics of Knowledge......Page 362
13. Melting Glaciers and Emerging Histories in the Saint Elias Mountains......Page 364
14. The Terrible Nearness of Distant Places: Making History at the National Museum of the American Indian......Page 388
Afterword: Indigeneity Today......Page 406
A......Page 414
C......Page 415
D......Page 416
G......Page 417
I......Page 418
L......Page 419
M......Page 420
P......Page 421
S......Page 422
T......Page 423
Z......Page 424
