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Abstract
“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.
Pradeep Chakkarath is Co-Director of the Hans Kilian and Lotte Köhler Centre (KKC) for Cultural Psychology and Historical Anthropology at the Ruhr-University Bochum. He is also a fellow alumnus of the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Konstanz and a member of the Task Force on Indigenous Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA).
Eva Gerharz is Junior Professor for Sociology of Development and Internationalisation at the Ruhr-University Bochum, and Interim Professor for Development Sociology at the University of Bayreuth. She is the author of The Politics of Reconstruction and Development in Sri Lanka. Transnational Commitments to Social Change (Routledge, 2014) and co-editor of Governance, Conflict and Development in South Asia (with Siri Hettige, Sage, 2015).
Nasir Uddin is a Cultural Anthropologist based in Bangladesh and a Professor of Anthropology at Chittagong University. His edited books include To Host or To Hurt: Counter-narratives on the Rohingya Refugee Issues in Bangladesh (ICDR, 2012) and Life in Peace and Conflict: Indigeneity and State in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (Orient BlackSwan, 2017).
“This very interesting and insightful collection takes the focus of discussion around the concept of indigeneity away from its normal parameters, instead examining how the concept has taken root outside the European and North American contexts, transforming the concept of indigeneity.” • Evelyn Plaice, University of New Brunswick
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | 5 | ||
| Illustrations | 7 | ||
| Preface | 8 | ||
| Acknowledgments | 13 | ||
| Abbreviations | 15 | ||
| Introduction — Exploring Indigeneity: Introductory Remarks on a Contested Concept | 19 | ||
| Part I — Struggles over Land and Resources | 45 | ||
| Chapter 1 — On the Nature of Indigenous Land: Ownership, Access, and Farming in Upland Northeast India | 47 | ||
| Chapter 2 — Considering the Implications of the Concept of Indigeneity for Land and Natural Resource Management in Cambodia, Thailand, and Laos | 67 | ||
| Part II — Becoming Indigenous | 87 | ||
| Chapter 3 — Processes of Modernization, Processes of Indigenization: An Amazonian Case (Yanomami, Southern Venezuela) | 89 | ||
| Chapter 4 — Indigenous Activism beyond Ethnic Groups: Shifting Boundaries and Constellations of Belonging | 110 | ||
| Chapter 5 — In Search of Self: Identity, Indigeneity, and Cultural Politics in Bangladesh | 137 | ||
| Part III — Indigeneity as a Political Resource | 159 | ||
| Chapter 6 — Different Trajectories of Indigenous Rights Movements in Africa: Insights from Cameroon and Tanzania | 161 | ||
| Chapter 7 — Politics of Indigeneity in the Andean Highlands: Indigenous Social Movements and the State in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru (1940–2015) | 190 | ||
| Chapter 8 — Conflicting Dimensions of Indigeneity as a Contested Political Resource in Contemporary Mexico | 217 | ||
| Part IV — Indigeneity and the State | 237 | ||
| Chapter 9 — Intimate Antagonisms: Adivasis and the State in Contemporary India | 239 | ||
| Chapter 10 — Indigeneity, Culture, and the State: Social Change and Legal Reforms in Latin America | 258 | ||
| Chapter 11 — Fluid Indigeneities in the Indian Ocean: A Small History of the State and Its Other | 288 | ||
| Postscriptum — The Futures of Indigenous Medicine: Networks, Contexts, Freedom | 312 | ||
| Index | 333 |