Indigeneity on the Move: Varying Manifestations of a Contested Concept

Published by Berghahn Books 2017

Indigeneity on the Move

Varying Manifestations of a Contested Concept

Edited by: Eva Gerharz , Nasir Uddin and Pradeep Chakkarath

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785337239

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About this book

“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.

Author / Editor information

Eva Gerharz is Professor of Sociology with a Special Focus on Globalisation at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany. 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).

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 Professor of Sociology with a Special Focus on Globalisation at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany. 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).

Reviews

“I look forward to bringing this book into my upperdivision classroom. It is yet another excellent tool for shaking up easy assumptions and problematizing taken-for-granted concepts, something we anthropologists ideally endeavor to accomplish in all that we do.” • American Ethnologist

“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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Preface Adam Kuper Publicly Available Download PDF	VIII
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
List of Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	XV
Introduction. Exploring Indigeneity Introductory Remarks on a Contested Concept Nasir Uddin, Eva Gerharz and Pradeep Chakkarath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Chapter 2. Considering the Implications of the Concept of Indigeneity for Land and Natural Resource Management in Cambodia, Thailand, and Laos Ian G. Baird Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
PART II. BECOMING INDIGENOUS
Chapter 3. Processes of Modernization, Processes of Indigenization An Amazonian Case (Yanomami, Southern Venezuela) Gabriele Herzog-Schröder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Chapter 4. Indigenous Activism beyond Ethnic Groups Shifting Boundaries and Constellations of Belonging Eva Gerharz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
Chapter 5. In Search of Self Identity, Indigeneity, and Cultural Politics in Bangladesh Nasir Uddin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
PART III. INDIGENEITY AS A POLITICAL RESOURCE
Chapter 6. Different Trajectories of Indigenous Rights Movements in Africa Insights from Cameroon and Tanzania Michaela Pelican Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Chapter 7. Politics of Indigeneity in the Andean Highlands Indigenous Social Movements and the State in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru (1940–2015) Olaf Kaltmeier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
Chapter 8. Conflicting Dimensions of Indigeneity as a Contested Political Resource in Contemporary Mexico Gilberto Rescher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
PART IV. INDIGENEITY AND THE STATE
Chapter 9. Intimate Antagonisms Adivasis and the State in Contemporary India Uday Chandra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Chapter 10. Indigeneity, Culture, and the State Social Change and Legal Reforms in Latin America Wolfgang Gabbert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	240
Chapter 11. Fluid Indigeneities in the Indian Ocean A Small History of the State and Its Other Philipp Zehmisch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	270
Postscriptum. The Futures of Indigenous Medicine Networks, Contexts, Freedom William S. Sax Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	294
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315