Author: Henry Minde
Publisher: Eburon Publishers, Delft
Keywords: indigeneity, knowledge, determination, peoples, indigenous
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2008-05-15
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 9059722043
ISBN-13: 9789059722040

            Achieving political recognition from their native countries continues to be one of the most contentious struggles for indigenous peoples. In this book, scholars from a variety of disciplines assess how indigenous groups are inventing and challenging new modes of identity, whether legal, cultural, artistic, or economic. Through the examples of cultural development in the United States, Australia, Guatemala, and other countries, the authors discuss the role of opposing ideals—such as national unity and ethnic diversity, assimilation and self-determination—in forming in

Author: J. Marshall Beier
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: international, limits, theory, cosmology, places, relations, uncommon, indigeneity
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-03-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 023061907X
ISBN-13: 9780230619074

The central claim developed in this book is that disciplinary International Relations is identifiable as both an advanced colonial practice and a postcolonial subject. The book explores how IR has internalized many of the enabling narratives of colonialism in the Americas, evinced most tellingly in its failure to take notice of indigenous peoples. More fundamentally, IR is read as a knowing hegemonic Western voice that, owing to its universalist pretensions, asserts its knowledge to the exclusion of all others.

Author: Brent E. Metz
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Keywords: indigeneity, transition, guatemala, eastern, maya, survival, orti
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2006-05-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0826338801
ISBN-13: 9780826338808

Scholars and Guatemalans have characterized eastern Guatemala as "Ladino" or non-Indian. The Ch’orti’ do not exhibit the obvious indigenous markers found among the Mayas of western Guatemala, Chiapas, and the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. Few still speak Ch’orti’, most no longer wear distinctive dress, and most community organizations have long been abandoned. During the colonial period, the Ch’orti’ region was adjacent to relatively vibrant economic regions of Central America that included major trade routes, mines, and dye plantations. In the twentieth cen

Authors:Erich Kolig, Hermann Muckler,
Publisher: Lit Verlag
Keywords: pacific, novara, oceania, contributions, research, identity, problems, indigeneity, south, recent, politics
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2002-02-02
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 3825859150
ISBN-13: 9783825859152

Author: Karena Shaw
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: political, theory, issues, contemporary, routledge, sovereignty, indigeneity, limits
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-10-27
List price: $175.00
ISBN-10: 0415777003
ISBN-13: 9780415777001

Indigeneity and Political Theory engages some of the profound challenges to traditions of modern political theory that have been posed over the past two decades. Karena Shaw is especially concerned with practices of sovereignty as they are embedded in and shape Indigenous politics, and responses to Indigenous politics. Drawing on theories of post-coloniality, feminism, globalization, and international politics, and using examples of contemporary political practice including court cases and specific controversies, Shaw seeks to illustrate and argue for a way of doing political theory th

Authors:Partha Nath Mukherji, Partha Nath Mukherji, Chandan
Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd
Keywords: asian, response, south, science, universality, social, indigeneity
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 2004-08-19
List price: $71.95
ISBN-10: 0761932151
ISBN-13: 9780761932154

Are social sciences that are indigenous to the West necessarily universal for other cultures? This collection of South Asian scholarship draws on the experiences of the region to discuss this question in depth.