Indigenous Studies And Engaged Anthropology

Author : Paul Sillitoe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317117223

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Advancing the rising field of engaged or participatory anthropology that is emerging at the same time as increased opposition from Indigenous peoples to research, this book offers critical reflections on research approaches to-date. The engaged approach seeks to change the researcher-researched relationship fundamentally, to make methods more appropriate and beneficial to communities by involving them as participants in the entire process from choice of research topic onwards. The aim is not only to change power relationships, but also engage with non-academic audiences. The advancement of such an egalitarian and inclusive approach to research can provoke strong opposition. Some argue that it threatens academic rigour and worry about the undermining of disciplinary authority. Others point to the difficulties of establishing an appropriately non-ethnocentric moral stance and navigating the complex problems communities face. Drawing on the experiences of Indigenous scholars, anthropologists and development professionals acquainted with a range of cultures, this book furthers our understanding of pressing issues such as interpretation, transmission and ownership of Indigenous knowledge, and appropriate ways to represent and communicate it. All the contributors recognise the plurality of knowledge and incorporate perspectives that derive, at least in part, from other ways of being in the world.

Author : Paul Sillitoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Applied anthropology
ISBN : OCLC:1310741721

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Author : Stuart Kirsch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520297951

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Engaged Anthropology by Stuart Kirsch Pdf

Does anthropology have more to offer than just its texts? In this timely and remarkable book, Stuart Kirsch shows how anthropology can—and why it should—become more engaged with the problems of the world. Engaged Anthropology draws on the author’s experiences working with indigenous peoples fighting for their environment, land rights, and political sovereignty. Including both short interventions and collaborations spanning decades, it recounts interactions with lawyers and courts, nongovernmental organizations, scientific experts, and transnational corporations. This unflinchingly honest account addresses the unexamined “backstage” of engaged anthropology. Coming at a time when some question the viability of the discipline, the message of this powerful and original work is especially welcome, as it not only promotes a new way of doing anthropology, but also compellingly articulates a new rationale for why anthropology matters.

Author : R. Aída Hernández Castillo,Suzi Hutchings,Brian Noble
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816538577

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Transcontinental Dialogues by R. Aída Hernández Castillo,Suzi Hutchings,Brian Noble Pdf

Transcontinental Dialogues brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous anthropologists from Mexico, Canada, and Australia who work at the intersections of Indigenous rights, advocacy, and action research. These engaged anthropologists explore how obligations manifest in differently situated alliances, how they respond to such obligations, and the consequences for anthropological practice and action. This volume presents a set of pieces that do not take the usual political or geographic paradigms as their starting point; instead, the particular dialogues from the margins presented in this book arise from a rejection of the geographic hierarchization of knowledge in which the Global South continues to be the space for fieldwork while the Global North is the place for its systematization and theorization. Instead, contributors in Transcontinental Dialogues delve into the interactions between anthropologists and the people they work with in Canada, Australia, and Mexico. This framework allows the contributors to explore the often unintended but sometimes devastating impacts of government policies (such as land rights legislation or justice initiatives for women) on Indigenous people’s lives. Each chapter’s author reflects critically on their own work as activist-scholars. They offer examples of the efforts and challenges that anthropologists—Indigenous and non-Indigenous—confront when producing knowledge in alliances with Indigenous peoples. Mi’kmaq land rights, pan-Maya social movements, and Aboriginal title claims in rural and urban areas are just some of the cases that provide useful ground for reflection on and critique of challenges and opportunities for scholars, policy-makers, activists, allies, and community members. This volume is timely and innovative for using the disparate anthropological traditions of three regions to explore how the interactions between anthropologists and Indigenous peoples in supporting Indigenous activism have the potential to transform the production of knowledge within the historical colonial traditions of anthropology.

Author : Chris Andersen,Jean M. O'Brien
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315528847

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Sources and Methods in Indigenous Studies by Chris Andersen,Jean M. O'Brien Pdf

Sources and Methods in Indigenous Studies is a synthesis of changes and innovations in methodologies in Indigenous Studies, focusing on sources over a broad chronological and geographical range. Written by a group of highly respected Indigenous Studies scholars from across an array of disciplines, this collection offers insight into the methodological approaches contributors take to research, and how these methods have developed in recent years. The book has a two-part structure that looks, firstly, at the theoretical and disciplinary movement of Indigenous Studies within history, literature, anthropology, and the social sciences. Chapters in this section reveal that, while engaging with other disciplines, Indigenous Studies has forged its own intellectual path by borrowing and innovating from other fields. In part two, the book examines the many different areas with which sources for indigenous history have been engaged, including the importance of family, gender, feminism, and sexuality, as well as various elements of expressive culture such as material culture, literature, and museums. Together, the chapters offer readers an overview of the dynamic state of the field in Indigenous Studies. This book shines a spotlight on the ways in which scholarship is transforming Indigenous Studies in methodologically innovative and exciting ways, and will be essential reading for students and scholars in the field.

Author : Joy Hendry,Laara Fitznor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415518338

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Anthropologists, Indigenous Scholars and the Research Endeavour by Joy Hendry,Laara Fitznor Pdf

This collection offers the fruits of a stimulating workshop that sought to bridge the fraught relationship which sometimes continues between anthropologists and indigenous/native/aboriginal scholars, despite areas of overlapping interest. Participants from around the world share their views and opinions on subjects ranging from ideas for reconciliation, the question of what might constitute a universal "science," indigenous heritage, postcolonial museology, the boundaries of the term "indigeneity," different senses as ways of knowing, and the very issue of writing as a method of dissemination that divides and excludes readers from different backgrounds. This book represents a landmark step in the process of replacing bridges with more equal patterns of intercultural cooperation and communication.

Author : Toon van Meijl,Frans Wijsen
Publisher : Radboud University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789493296053

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Engaged Scholarship and Emancipation by Toon van Meijl,Frans Wijsen Pdf

This collective volume celebrates that 75 years ago the foundation was laid for the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The contributions to this volume exemplify the evolution of the academic disciplines of anthropology and development studies at Radboud University in the course of its history. Radboud University itself celebrates its centenary in the year 2023. Originally this university was established for the emancipation of the Catholic population in the Netherlands. Emancipation continues to be a distinctive feature of the university’s policy, also of the scholarship as it is conducted in the department of anthropology and development studies. As emancipation and engagement are key concepts in the disciplines of anthropology and development studies at Radboud University, former and current staff members focus their contributions to this anniversary volume on the various meanings of the concepts of emancipation and engagement in their academic practices. They reflect on changes in the meaning of engaged scholarship in their own work, especially in relation to emancipatory issues. The outcome is a rich variety of contributions centering on the shifting tension between engagement and scholarship in the disciplines of anthropology and development studies. Thus, they not only exemplify the evolution of these academic disciplines at Radboud University, but also offer a topical and innovative perspective on a highly dynamic field.

Author : Sam Beck,Carl A. Maida
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782380375

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Toward Engaged Anthropology by Sam Beck,Carl A. Maida Pdf

By working with underserved communities, anthropologists may play a larger role in democratizing society. The growth of disparities challenges anthropology to be used for social justice. This engaged stance moves the application of anthropological theory, methods, and practice toward action and activism. However, this engagement also moves anthropologists away from traditional roles of observation toward participatory roles that become increasingly involved with those communities or social groupings being studied. The chapters in this book suggest the roles anthropologists are able to play to bring us closer to a public anthropology characterized as engagement.

Author : Sarah Pink,Simone Abram
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782388470

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Media, Anthropology and Public Engagement by Sarah Pink,Simone Abram Pdf

Contemporary anthropology is done in a world where social and digital media are playing an increasingly significant role, where anthropological and arts practices are often intertwined in museum and public intervention contexts, and where anthropologists are encouraged to engage with mass media. Because anthropologists are often expected and inspired to ensure their work engages with public issues, these opportunities to disseminate work in new ways and to new publics simultaneously create challenges as anthropologists move their practice into unfamiliar collaborative domains and expose their research to new forms of scrutiny. In this volume, contributors question whether a fresh public anthropology is emerging through these new practices.

Author : Nicole Fabricant
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807837511

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Mobilizing Bolivia's Displaced by Nicole Fabricant Pdf

The election of Evo Morales as Bolivia's president in 2005 made him his nation's first indigenous head of state, a watershed victory for social activists and Native peoples. El Movimiento Sin Tierra (MST), or the Landless Peasant Movement, played a significant role in bringing Morales to power. Following in the tradition of the well-known Brazilian Landless movement, Bolivia's MST activists seized unproductive land and built farming collectives as a means of resistance to large-scale export-oriented agriculture. In Mobilizing Bolivia's Displaced, Nicole Fabricant illustrates how landless peasants politicized indigeneity to shape grassroots land politics, reform the state, and secure human and cultural rights for Native peoples. Fabricant takes readers into the personal spaces of home and work, on long bus rides, and into meetings and newly built MST settlements to show how, in response to displacement, Indigenous identity is becoming ever more dynamic and adaptive. In addition to advancing this rich definition of indigeneity, she explores the ways in which Morales has found himself at odds with Indigenous activists and, in so doing, shows that Indigenous people have a far more complex relationship to Morales than is generally understood.

Author : Robert H. Lavenda,Emily A. Schultz,Michel E. Bouchard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0190165936

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Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology by Robert H. Lavenda,Emily A. Schultz,Michel E. Bouchard Pdf

Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology, first Canadian edition is a clearly written, concise cultural anthropology text with a distinctive Canadian perspective as it provides students with the key ideas, terms, and practices of contemporary cultural anthropology. This text is designed forcourses that make extensive use of ethnographies and other supplementary readings while asserting current examples and covering the works of diverse scholars in Canada and abroad. Not a standard textbook, Core Concepts offers an elaborated discussion in accessible prose that can be used flexible asa core text or a supporting supplement.Discussing the use of engaged anthropology in today's world, this text explores how decolonizing anthropology approaches colonialism and its effects and ramification on Indigenous peoples of Canada, part of anthropology's origins, and Canadian identity. of the key terms and concepts thatanthropologists use in their work. The text also includes coverage of perspectives reflecting Canada's diversity, with particular focus on research conducted among Indigenous communities, Anthropocene. and the ethical and collaborative research practices students need to mark their path forward intheir studies. The book prepares students to read ethnographies more effectively and with better understanding of the history and origins of those terms and concepts.

Author : Stuart Kirsch
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804753423

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Reverse Anthropology by Stuart Kirsch Pdf

Stuart Kirsch is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He has consulted widely on environmental issues and land rights in the Pacific, and was actively involved in the political campaign and legal case against the environmental impact of the Ok Tedi mine in Papua New Guinea.

Author : Keith Thor Carlson,John Sutton Lutz,David M. Schaepe,Naxaxalhts’i – Albert “Sonny” McHalsie
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780887555473

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Towards a New Ethnohistory by Keith Thor Carlson,John Sutton Lutz,David M. Schaepe,Naxaxalhts’i – Albert “Sonny” McHalsie Pdf

"Towards a New Ethnohistory" engages respectfully in cross-cultural dialogue and interdisciplinary methods to co-create with Indigenous people a new, decolonized ethnohistory. This new ethnohistory reflects Indigenous ways of knowing and is a direct response to critiques of scholars who have for too long foisted their own research agendas onto Indigenous communities. Community-engaged scholarship invites members of the Indigenous community themselves to identify the research questions, host the researchers while they conduct the research, and participate meaningfully in the analysis of the researchers’ findings. The historical research topics chosen by the Stó:lō community leaders and knowledge keepers for the contributors to this collection range from the intimate and personal, to the broad and collective. But what principally distinguishes the analyses is the way settler colonialism is positioned as something that unfolds in sometimes unexpected ways within Stó:lō history, as opposed to the other way around. This collection presents the best work to come out of the world’s only graduate-level humanities-based ethnohistory field school. The blending of methodologies and approaches from the humanities and social sciences is a model of twenty-first century interdisciplinarity.

Author : R. Aída Hernández Castillo,Suzi Hutchings,Brian Noble
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1286304813

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Transcontinental Dialogues by R. Aída Hernández Castillo,Suzi Hutchings,Brian Noble Pdf

Transcontinental Dialogues brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous anthropologists from Mexico, Canada, and Australia who work at the intersections of Indigenous rights, advocacy, and action research. These engaged anthropologists explore how obligations manifest in differently situated alliances, how they respond to such obligations, and the consequences for anthropological practice and action.This volume presents a set of pieces that do not take the usual political or geographic paradigms as their starting point; instead, the particular dialogues from the margins presented in this book arise from a rejection of the geographic hierarchization of knowledge in which the Global South continues to be the space for fieldwork while the Global North is the place for its systematization and theorization. Instead, contributors in Transcontinental Dialogues delve into the interactions between anthropologists and the people they work with in Canada, Australia, and Mexico. This framework allows the contributors to explore the often unintended but sometimes devastating impacts of government policies (such as land rights legislation or justice initiatives for women) on Indigenous people's lives.Each chapter's author reflects critically on their own work as activist-scholars. They offer examples of the efforts and challenges that anthropologists--Indigenous and non-Indigenous--confront when producing knowledge in alliances with Indigenous peoples. Mi'kmaq land rights, pan-Maya social movements, and Aboriginal title claims in rural and urban areas are just some of the cases that provide useful ground for reflection on and critique of challenges and opportunities for scholars, policy-makers, activists, allies, and community members.This volume is timely and innovative for using the disparate anthropological traditions of three regions to explore how the interactions between anthropologists and Indigenous peoples in supporting Indigenous activism have the potential to transform the production of knowledge within the historical colonial traditions of anthropology.

Author : Michelle Hegmon,B. Sunday Eiselt
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121959972

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Engaged Anthropology by Michelle Hegmon,B. Sunday Eiselt Pdf

This collection of essays is based on the 2005 Society for American Archaeology symposium and presents research that epitomizes Richard I. Ford’s approach of engaged anthropology. This transdisciplinary approach integrates archaeological research with perspectives from ethnography, history, and ecology, and engages the anthropologist with Native partners and with socio-natural landscapes. Research papers largely focus on the U.S. Southwest, but also consider other areas of North America, issues related to museums collections, and indigenous approaches to materials research.