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Urban Indigeneities

Author : Dana Brablec,Andrew Canessa
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816548835

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Urban Indigeneities by Dana Brablec,Andrew Canessa Pdf

Today a majority of Indigenous peoples live in urban areas: they are builders and cleaners, teachers and lawyers, market women and masons, living in towns and cities surrounded by the people and pollution that characterize life for most individuals in the twenty-first century. Despite this basic fact, the vast majority of studies on Indigenous peoples concentrate solely on rural Indigenous populations. Aiming to highlight these often-overlooked communities, this is the first book to look at urban Indigenous peoples globally and present the urban Indigenous experience—not as the exception but as the norm. The contributing essays draw on a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, architecture, land economy, and area studies, and are written by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars. The analysis looks at Indigenous people across the world and draws on examples not usually considered within the study of indigeneity, such as Fiji, Japan, and Russia. Indigeneity is often seen as being “authentic” when it is practiced in remote rural areas, but these essays show that a vigorous, vibrant, and meaningful indigeneity can be created in urban spaces too. The book challenges many of the imaginaries and tropes of what constitutes “the Indigenous” and offers perspectives and tools to understand a contemporary Indigenous urban reality. As such, it is a must-read for anyone interested in the real lives of Indigenous people today. Contributors Aiko Ikemura Amaral Chris Andersen Giuliana Borea Dana Brablec Andrew Canessa Sandra del Valle Casals Stanislav Saas Ksenofontov Daniela Peluso Andrey Petrov Marya Rozanova-Smith Kate Stevens Kanako Uzawa

Urban Mountain Beings

Author : Kathleen S. Fine-Dare
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498575942

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Urban Mountain Beings by Kathleen S. Fine-Dare Pdf

Urban Mountain Beings is an ethnographic and historically grounded study of recognition strategies and ethnogenesis carried out on the flanks of Mt. Pichincha in Quito, Ecuador. Kathleen S. Fine-Dare employs feminist geographical and Indigenous pedagogical frameworks to illustrate how histories of exclusion have created attitudes and policies that treat Native peoples as “out of place and time” in cities. Fine-Dare concentrates on two overlapping contexts for Indigenous vindication: the Yumbada of Cotocollao, an ancestral performance through which mountain and other spirits are called into the urban plaza; and Casa Kinde (Hummingbird House), a cultural organization that engages in workshops, filmmaking, photography, commerce, community education, and the formation of alliances with anthropologists, activists, filmmakers, engineers, and teachers.

Urban Mountain Spirits

Author : Kathleen FINE-DARE
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1498575935

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Urban Mountain Spirits by Kathleen FINE-DARE Pdf

Urban Mountain Beings is an ethnographic and historically-grounded study of recognition strategies and ethnogenesis in post-neoliberal times carried out on the flanks of Mt. Pichincha in Quito, Ecuador. Fine-Dare examines how histories of exclusion have created attitudes and policies treating Native peoples as "out of place" in cities.

Comparative Indigeneities of the Américas

Author : M. Bianet Castellanos,Lourdes Gutiérrez Nájera,Arturo J. Aldama
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780816521012

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Comparative Indigeneities of the Américas by M. Bianet Castellanos,Lourdes Gutiérrez Nájera,Arturo J. Aldama Pdf

Comparative Indigeneities of the Américas highlights intersecting themes such as indigenismo, mestizaje, migration, displacement, autonomy, sovereignty, borders, spirituality, and healing that have historically shaped the experiences of Native peoples across the Américas. In doing so, it promotes a broader understanding of the relationships between Native communities in the United States and Canada and those in Latin America and the Caribbean and invites a hemispheric understanding of the relationships between Native and mestiza/o peoples.

Hemispheric Indigeneities

Author : Miléna Santoro,Erick D. Langer
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496208699

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Hemispheric Indigeneities by Miléna Santoro,Erick D. Langer Pdf

Hemispheric Indigeneities is a critical anthology that brings together indigenous and nonindigenous scholars specializing in the Andes, Mesoamerica, and Canada. The overarching theme is the changing understanding of indigeneity from first contact to the contemporary period in three of the world’s major regions of indigenous peoples. Although the terms indio, indigène, and indian only exist (in Spanish, French, and English, respectively) because of European conquest and colonization, indigenous peoples have appropriated or changed this terminology in ways that reflect their shifting self-identifications and aspirations. As the essays in this volume demonstrate, this process constantly transformed the relation of Native peoples in the Americas to other peoples and the state. This volume’s presentation of various factors—geographical, temporal, and cross-cultural—provide illuminating contributions to the burgeoning field of hemispheric indigenous studies. Hemispheric Indigeneities explores indigenous agency and shows that what it means to be indigenous was and is mutable. It also demonstrates that self-identification evolves in response to the relationship between indigenous peoples and the state. The contributors analyze the conceptions of what indigeneity meant, means today, or could come to mean tomorrow.

Intimate Indigeneities

Author : Andrew Canessa
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822352679

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Intimate Indigeneities by Andrew Canessa Pdf

Analyzing the nuances of identity formation in rural Andean culture, Andrew Canessa draws on two decades of ethnographic research in a remote indigenous community in Bolivia's highlands.

Indigenous in the City

Author : Evelyn Peters,Chris Andersen
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774824668

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Indigenous in the City by Evelyn Peters,Chris Andersen Pdf

Research on Indigenous issues rarely focuses on life in major metropolitan centres. Instead, there is a tendency to frame rural locations as emblematic of authentic or “real” Indigeneity. While such a perspective may support Indigenous struggles for territory and recognition, it fails to account for large swaths of contemporary Indigenous realities, including the increased presence of Indigenous people in cities. The contributors to this volume explore the implications of urbanization on the production of distinctive Indigenous identities in Canada, the US, New Zealand, and Australia. In doing so, they demonstrate the resilience, creativity, and complexity of the urban Indigenous presence, both in Canada and internationally.

Who is an Indian?

Author : Maxmillian C. Forte
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442668003

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Who is an Indian? by Maxmillian C. Forte Pdf

Who is an Indian? This is possibly the oldest question facing Indigenous peoples across the Americas, and one with significant implications for decisions relating to resource distribution, conflicts over who gets to live where and for how long, and clashing principles of governance and law. For centuries, the dominant views on this issue have been strongly shaped by ideas of both race and place. But just as important, who is permitted to ask, and answer this question? This collection examines the changing roles of race and place in the politics of defining Indigenous identities in the Americas. Drawing on case studies of Indigenous communities across North America, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America, it is a rare volume to compare Indigenous experience throughout the western hemisphere. The contributors question the vocabulary, legal mechanisms, and applications of science in constructing the identities of Indigenous populations, and consider ideas of nation, land, and tradition in moving indigeneity beyond race.

Racial Alterity, Wixarika Youth Activism, and the Right to the Mexican City

Author : Diana Negrín
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816540013

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Racial Alterity, Wixarika Youth Activism, and the Right to the Mexican City by Diana Negrín Pdf

While the population of Indigenous peoples living in Mexico’s cities has steadily increased over the past four decades, both the state and broader society have failed to recognize this geographic heterogeneity by continuing to expect Indigenous peoples to live in rural landscapes that are anathema to a modern Mexico. This book examines the legacy of the racial imaginary in Mexico with a focus on the Wixarika (Huichol) Indigenous peoples of the western Sierra Madre from the colonial period to the present. Through an examination of the politics of identity, space, and activism among Wixarika university students living and working in the western Mexican cities of Tepic and Guadalajara, geographer Diana Negrín analyzes the production of racialized urban geographies and reveals how Wixarika youth are making claims to a more heterogeneous citizenship that challenges these deep-seated discourses and practices. Through the weaving together of historical material, critical interdisciplinary scholarship, and rich ethnography, this book sheds light on the racialized history, urban transformation, and contemporary Indigenous activism of a region of Mexico that has remained at the margins of scholarship.

Natives Making Nation

Author : Andrew Canessa
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816524696

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In Bolivia today, the ability to speak an indigenous language is highly valued among educated urbanites as a useful job skill, but a rural person who speaks a native language is branded with lower social status. Likewise, chewing coca in the countryside spells Òinferior indian,Ó but in La Paz jazz bars itÕs decidedly cool. In the Andes and elsewhere, the commodification of indianness has impacted urban lifestyles as people co-opt indigenous cultures for qualities that emphasize the uniqueness of their national culture. This volume looks at how metropolitan ideas of nation employed by politicians, the media and education are produced, reproduced, and contested by people of the rural AndesÑpeople who have long been regarded as ethnically and racially distinct from more culturally European urban citizens. Yet these peripheral ÒnativesÓ are shown to be actively engaged with the idea of the nation in their own communities, forcing us to re-think the ways in which indigeneity is defined by its marginality. The contributors examine the ways in which numerous identitiesÑracial, generational, ethnic, regional, national, gender, and sexualÑare both mutually informing and contradictory among subaltern Andean people who are more likely now to claim an allegiance to a nation than ever before. Although indians are less often confronted with crude assimilationist policies, they continue to face racism and discrimination as they struggle to assert an identity that is more than a mere refraction of the dominant culture. Yet despite the language of multiculturalism employed even in constitutional reform, any assertion of indian identity is likely to be resisted. By exploring topics as varied as nation-building in the 1930s or the chuqila dance, these authors expose a paradox in the relation between indians and the nation: that the nation can be claimed as a source of power and distinct identity while simultaneously making some types of national imaginings unattainable. Whether dancing together or simply talking to one another, the people described in these essays are shown creating identity through processes that are inherently social and interactive. To sing, to eat, to weave . . . In the performance of these simple acts, bodies move in particular spaces and contexts and do so within certain understandings of gender, race and nation. Through its presentation of this rich variety of ethnographic and historical contexts, Natives Making Nation provides a finely nuanced view of contemporary Andean life.

Performing Indigeneity

Author : Laura R. Graham,H. Glenn Penny
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803274150

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Performing Indigeneity by Laura R. Graham,H. Glenn Penny Pdf

This engaging collection of essays discusses the complexities of “being” indigenous in public spaces. Laura R. Graham and H. Glenn Penny bring together a set of highly recognized junior and senior scholars, including indigenous scholars, from a variety of fields to provoke critical thinking about the many ways in which individuals and social groups construct and display unique identities around the world. The case studies in Performing Indigeneity underscore the social, historical, and immediate contextual factors at play when indigenous people make decisions about when, how, why, and who can “be” indigenous in public spaces. Performing Indigeneity invites readers to consider how groups and individuals think about performance and display and focuses attention on the ways that public spheres, both indigenous and nonindigenous ones, have received these performances. The essays demonstrate that performance and display are essential to the creation and persistence of indigeneity, while also presenting the conundrum that in many cases “indigeneity” excludes some of the voices or identities that the category purports to represent.

Indigeneity on the Move

Author : Eva Gerharz,Nasir Uddin,Pradeep Chakkarath
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785337239

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Indigeneity on the Move by Eva Gerharz,Nasir Uddin,Pradeep Chakkarath Pdf

“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.

Indians on the Move

Author : Douglas K. Miller
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469651392

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Indians on the Move by Douglas K. Miller Pdf

In 1972, the Bureau of Indian Affairs terminated its twenty-year-old Voluntary Relocation Program, which encouraged the mass migration of roughly 100,000 Native American people from rural to urban areas. At the time the program ended, many groups--from government leaders to Red Power activists--had already classified it as a failure, and scholars have subsequently positioned the program as evidence of America's enduring settler-colonial project. But Douglas K. Miller here argues that a richer story should be told--one that recognizes Indigenous mobility in terms of its benefits and not merely its costs. In their collective refusal to accept marginality and destitution on reservations, Native Americans used the urban relocation program to take greater control of their socioeconomic circumstances. Indigenous migrants also used the financial, educational, and cultural resources they found in cities to feed new expressions of Indigenous sovereignty both off and on the reservation. The dynamic histories of everyday people at the heart of this book shed new light on the adaptability of mobile Native American communities. In the end, this is a story of shared experience across tribal lines, through which Indigenous people incorporated urban life into their ideas for Indigenous futures.

Indigenous Cosmopolitans

Author : Maximilian Christian Forte
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Congresses and conventions
ISBN : 1433101025

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Indigenous Cosmopolitans by Maximilian Christian Forte Pdf

"Timely and original, this volume looks at indigenous peoples from the perspective of cosmopolitan theory and at cosmopolitanism from the perspective of the indigenous world. In doing so, it not only sheds new light on both, but also has something important to say about the complexities of identification in this shrinking, overheated world. Analysing ethnoqraphy from around the world, the authors demonstrate the universality of the local-indigeneity-and the particularity of the universal--cosmopolitanism. Anthropology doesn't get much better than this." --Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Professor of Anthropology, University of Oslo; Author of Globalisation --Book Jacket.

Panguru and the City: Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua

Author : Melissa Matutina Williams
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781927247921

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Panguru and the City: Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua by Melissa Matutina Williams Pdf

Travelling from Hokianga to Auckland in the middle decades of the twentieth century, the people of Panguru established themselves in the workplaces, suburbs, churches and schools of the city. Melissa Matutina Williams writes from the heart of these communities. The daughter of a Panguru family growing up in Auckland, she writes a perceptive account of urban migration through the stories of the Panguru migrants. Through these vibrant oral narratives, the history of Māori migration is relocated to the tribal and whānau context in which it occurred. For the people of Panguru, migration was seldom viewed as a one-way journey of new beginnings; it was experienced as a lifelong process of developing a ‘coexistent home-place’ for themselves and future generations. Dreams of a brighter future drew on the cultural foundations of a tribal homeland and past. Panguru and the City: Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua traces their negotiations with people and places, from Auckland’s inner-city boarding houses, places of worship and dance halls to workplaces and Maori Affairs’ homes in the suburbs. It is a history that will resonate with Māori from all tribal areas who shared in the quiet task of working against state policies of assimilation, the economic challenges of the 1970s and neoliberal policies of the 1980s in order to develop dynamic Māori community sites and networks which often remained invisible in the cities of Aotearoa New Zealand.