Authors:Graham Harvey, Charles D., Jr. Thompson,
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co
Keywords: indigenous, vitality, series, religions, dislocations, diasporas
Number of Pages: 199
Published: 2005-09-30
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0754639061
ISBN-13: 9780754639060

Indigenous religions are now present not only in their places of origin but globally. They are significant parts of the pluralism and diversity of the contemporary world, especially when their performance enriches and/or challenges host populations. "Indigenous Diasporas and Dislocations" engages with examples of communities with different experiences, expectations and evaluations of diaspora life. It contributes significantly to debates about indigenous cultures and religions, and to understandings of identity and alterity in late or post-modernity. This book promises to enrich understanding

Author: James L. Cox
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: indigenous, series, religions, vitality, primitive
Number of Pages: 194
Published: 2007-09-30
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0754655695
ISBN-13: 9780754655695

The academic study of Indigenous Religions developed historically from missiological and anthropological sources, but little analysis has been devoted to this classification within departments of religious studies. Evaluating this assumption in the light of case studies drawn from Zimbabwe, Alaska and shamanic traditions, and in view of current debates over ’primitivism’, James Cox mounts a defence for the scholarly use of the category ’Indigenous Religions’.

Author: Raymond Pierotti
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: indigenous, peoples, politics, biology, evolutionary, knowledge, ecology
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2010-07-16
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0415879248
ISBN-13: 9780415879248

Indigenous ways of understanding and interacting with the natural world are characterized as Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), which derives from emphasizing relationships and connections among species. This book examines TEK and its strengths in relation to Western ecological knowledge and evolutionary philosophy. Pierotti takes a look at the scientific basis of this approach, focusing on different concepts of communities and connections among living entities, the importance of understanding the meaning of relatedness in both spiritual and biological creation, and a careful comparison w

Author: R. Sambuli Mosha
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: indigenous, system, knowledge, schooling, educational, chagga, africa, study, heartbeat
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1999-12-01
List price: $43.95
ISBN-10: 0815336187
ISBN-13: 9780815336181

Author: Devon Abbott Mihesuah
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: indigenous, contemporary, issues, activism, decolonization, american, women, empowerment
Number of Pages: 246
Published: 2003-04-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0803282869
ISBN-13: 9780803282865

Oklahoma Choctaw scholar Devon Abbott Mihesuah offers a frank and absorbing look at the complex, evolving identities of American Indigenous women today, their ongoing struggles against a centuries-old legacy of colonial disempowerment, and how they are seen and portrayed by themselves and others. Mihesuah first examines how American Indigenous women have been perceived and depicted by non-Natives, including scholars, and by themselves. She then illuminates the pervasive impact of colonialism and patriarchal thought on Native women’s traditional tribal roles and on their participation in a

Author: Joanne Barker
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: indigenous, struggles, determination, contemporary, issues, possibility, matters, locations, contestation, sovereignty
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2005-11-14
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0803262515
ISBN-13: 9780803262515

Sovereignty Matters investigates the multiple perspectives that exist within indigenous communities regarding the significance of sovereignty as a category of intellectual, political, and cultural work. Much scholarship to date has treated sovereignty in geographical and political matters solely in terms of relationships between indigenous groups and their colonial states or with a bias toward American contexts. This groundbreaking anthology of essays by indigenous peoples from the Americas and the Pacific offers multiple perspectives on the significance of sovereignty. The noted Mohawk schol

Author: Christa Scholtz
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: indigenous, zealand, new, united, states, peoples, canada, politics, policies, emergence, claims, land, claim, negotiating, negotiation, australia
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2006-02-03
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0415976901
ISBN-13: 9780415976909

This book asks: Why do governments choose to negotiate indigenous land claims rather than resolve claims through some other means? Scholtz explores why a government would choose to implement a negotiation policy, where it commits itself to a long-run strategy of negotiation over a number of claims and over a significant course of time. Through an examination strongly grounded in archival research of post-WWII government decision-making in four established democracies, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States, Scholtz argues that negotiation policies emerge when indigenous people m