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The Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Wellbeing consists of five
themes, namely, physical, social and emotional, economic, cultural
and spiritual, and subjective wellbeing. It fills a substantial gap
in the current literature on the wellbeing of Indigenous people and
communities around the world. This handbook sheds new light on
understanding Indigenous wellbeing and its determinants, and aids
in the development and implementation of more appropriate policies,
as better evidence-informed policymaking will lead to better
outcomes for Indigenous populations. This book provides a reliable
and convenient source of information for policymakers, academics
and students, and allows readers to make informed decisions
regarding the wellbeing of Indigenous populations. It is also a
useful resource for non- government organizations to gain insight
into relevant global factors for the development of stronger and
more effective international policies to improve the lives of
Indigenous communities.
This edited volume provides a complete introduction to critical
issues across the field of Indigenous peoples in contemporary
Taiwan, from theoretical approaches to empirical analysis. Seeking
to inform wider audiences about Taiwan's Indigenous peoples, this
book brings together both leading and emerging scholars as part of
an international collaborative research project, sharing broad
specialisms on modern Indigenous issues in Taiwan. This is one of
the first dedicated volumes in English to examine contemporary
Taiwan's Indigenous peoples from such a range of disciplinary
angles, following four section themes: long-term perspectives, the
arts, education, and politics. Chapters offer perspectives not only
from academic researchers, but also from writers bearing rich
practitioner and activist experience from within the Taiwanese
Indigenous rights movement. Methods range from extensive fieldwork
to Indigenous-directed film and literary analysis. Taiwan's
Contemporary Indigenous Peoples will prove a useful resource for
students and scholars of Taiwan Studies, Indigenous Studies and
Asia Pacific Studies, as well as educators designing future courses
on Indigenous studies.
A comprehensive analysis of contemporary indigenous rights
Analysing how Indigenous Peoples come to be identifiable as bearers
of human rights, this book considers how individuals and
communities claim the right of free, prior and informed consent
(FPIC) as Indigenous peoples. The basic notion of FPIC is that
states should seek Indigenous peoples' consent before taking
actions that will have an impact on them, their territories or
their livelihoods. FPIC is an important development for Indigenous
peoples, their advocates and supporters because one might assume
that, where states recognize it, Indigenous peoples will have the
ability to control how non-Indigenous laws and actions will affect
them. But who exactly are the Indigenous peoples that are the
subjects of this discourse? This book argues that the subject
status of Indigenous peoples emerged out of international law in
the late 1970s and early 1980s. Then, through a series of case
studies, it considers how self-identifying Indigenous peoples,
scholars, UN institutions and non-government organizations (NGOs)
dispersed that subject-status and associated rights discourse
through international and national legal contexts. It shows that
those who claim international human rights as Indigenous peoples
performatively become identifiable subjects of international law -
but further demonstrates that this does not, however, provide them
with control over, or emancipation from, a state-based legal
system. Maintaining that the discourse on Indigenous peoples and
international law itself needs to be theoretically and critically
re-appraised, this book problematises the subject-status of those
who claim Indigenous peoples' rights and the role of scholars,
institutions, NGOs and others in producing that subject-status.
Squarely addressing the limitations of international human rights
law, it nevertheless goes on to provide a conceptual framework for
rethinking the promise and power of Indigenous peoples' rights.
Original and sophisticated, the book will appeal to scholars,
activists and lawyers involved with indigenous rights, as well as
those with more general interests in the operation of international
law.
Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols enters a dialogue
about museums' responsibility for the curation of their collections
into an infinite future while also tackling contentious issues of
repatriation and digital access to collections. Bringing into focus
a number of key debates centred on ethnographic collections and
their relationship with source communities, Morphy considers the
value material objects have to different 'local' communities - the
museum and the source community - and the value-creation processes
with which they are entangled. The focus on values and value brings
the issue of repatriation and access into a dialogue between the
two locals, questioning who has access to collections and whose
values are taken into consideration. Placing the museum itself
firmly at the centre of the debate, Morphy posits that museums
constitute a kind of 'local' embedded in a trajectory of value.
Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols challenges aspects
of postcolonial theory that position museums in the past by
presenting an argument that places relationships with communities
as central to the future of museums. This makes the book essential
reading for academics and students working in the fields of museum
and heritage studies, anthropology, archaeology, Indigenous
studies, cultural studies, and history.
A provocative analysis of a nativist movement.The creation of a
huge artificial lake in western Canada led to the flooding of prime
hunting and trapping territory of the Sekani Indians thus depriving
them of their traditional occupations and livelihood. This caused
considerable social distress resulting in a drastic increase of
alcohol consumption and violence and seriously disrupting social
relationships. Some Sekani made efforts to create new ties of
solidarity through the adoption of Pan-Indianism however this
ideology did not prove effective. The author concludes that their
lack of unity stemmed from the same factionalism which
characterized their personal relationships.
This fascinating book, translated from the French, explores the
Yafar society, a forest people living by shifting cultivation,
hunting and gathering. Based on fifteen years of research, it
offers a detailed examination of all aspects of a society whose
material and nutritional relations with their rainforest
environment are mediated by a sociocultural system based on a
carefully negotiated relationship with natural forces, and harmony
between the sexes. The author shows how these basic ideas can be
found in the ritualized and institutional aspects of the Yafar's
social life, as well as their mythology. Rich in detail and
insight, this book fully documents the Yafar's complex ritual
involving a symbolic exchange with the spirit world, a secret cult,
and curing rites presided over by hereditary religious officials.
The author's analysis of Yafar ideologies reveals that sexual
reproduction is the key to their society and the model for
continuity and regeneration prescribed by nature.
In the past sheep-rearing was the main means of existence for most
Bedouin. Today it is developing in a new direction. For some it is
as important as ever, for others it has become only a subsidiary
source of income and a safeguard against economic instability. This
volume looks at the effects social, political and economic change
has had upon the traditional livelihood of the Negev Bedouin. The
author considers how, despite all the problems encountered - such
as the expropriation of land by the authorities and the demolition
of authorized dwellings - sheep-rearing is still considered to be
essential and worthwhile for almost all households. Co-operation
between the owners of flocks, shepherds, food suppliers and
government officials is essential in the determination of grazing
areas and pastoral arrangements. These varied interest groups
ensure that sheep-rearing continues to occupy an important place in
the Bedouin's cultural identity and the flock remains a unifying
factor for the Bedouin family and Israeli society.
The Iban or the Sea Dayaks of Sarawak have probably been the best
known of the indigenous peoples of Borneo for well over a century.
Much has been written about them, but until the results of Dr
Freeman's field research were published by the Government of
Sarawak and by Her Majesty's Stationery Office in 1955 there was
little information on their methods of agriculture and their social
system. The book has become a landmark in the studies of shifting
cultivation and of cognatic kinship organization; and the ideas
around which it is written have proved over the years to be a
continuing and powerful stimulus in the development of kinship
theory. The field work on which the account is based was undertaken
from 1949 to 1951. Although fundamental changes have taken place in
the life of the Iban since the book was first published, it has
been decided to republish it substantially unaltered.
How do videos, movies and documentaries dedicated to indigenous
communities transform the media landscape of South Asia? Based on
extensive original research, this book examines how in South Asia
popular music videos, activist political clips, movies and
documentaries about, by and for indigenous communities take on
radically new significances. Media, Indigeneity and Nation in South
Asia shows how in the portrayal of indigenous groups by both
'insiders' and 'outsiders' imaginations of indigeneity and nation
become increasingly interlinked. Indigenous groups, typically
marginal to the nation, are at the same time part of mainstream
polities and cultures. Drawing on perspectives from media studies
and visual anthropology, this book compares and contrasts the
situation in South Asia with indigeneity globally.
This book is about the presence of the absent- the tribes of
Punjab, India, many of them still nomadic, constituting the poorest
of the poor in the state. Drawing on exhaustive fieldwork and
ethnographic accounts of more than 750 respondents, it explores the
occupational change across generations to prove their presence in
the state before the Criminal Tribes Act was implemented in 1871.
The archival reports reveal the atrocities unleashed by the
colonial government on these people. The volume shows how the
post-colonial government too has proved no different; it has done
little to bring them into the mainstream society by not exploiting
their traditional expertise or equipping them with modern skills.
This book will be of great interest to scholars of sociology,
social anthropology, social history, public policy, development
studies, tribal communities and South Asian studies.
Winner of The Alexander Nove Prize 2018 The nomads of Central Asia
were already well accustomed to life under the power of a distant
capital when the Bolsheviks fomented revolution on the streets of
Petrograd. Yet after the fall of the Tsar, the nature, ambition and
potency of that power would change dramatically, ultimately
resulting in the near eradication of Central Asian nomadism. Based
on extensive primary source work in Almaty, Bishkek and Moscow,
Nomads and Soviet Rule charts the development of this volatile and
brutal relationship and challenges the often repeated view that
events followed a linear path of gradually escalating violence.
Rather than the sedentarisation campaign being an inevitability
born of deep-rooted Marxist hatred of the nomadic lifestyle, Thomas
demonstrates the Soviet state's treatment of nomads to be far more
complex and pragmatic. He shows how Soviet policy was informed by
both an anti-colonial spirit and an imperialist impulse, by
nationalism as well as communism, and above all by a lethal
self-confidence in the Communist Party's ability to transform the
lives of nomads and harness the agricultural potential of their
landscape. This is the first book to look closely at the period
between the revolution and the collectivisation drive, and offers
fresh insight into a little-known aspect of early Soviet history.
In doing so, the book offers a path to refining conceptions of the
broader history and dynamics of the Soviet project in this key
period.
Complicates the process of scholarly inquiry into two-spirit lives,
identities, and communities in service of creating a more just
world by focusing on the needs, desires, and refusals of young
Indigenous people. Addresses the distinct experiences of Indigenous
trans, queer and two-spirit young people, which no published
scholarly monograph has done to date. Expands the literature on
two-spirit identities and communities using a methodology that
centers the expertise of Indigenous youth.
Children of the Rainforest explores the lives of children growing
up in a time of radical change in Amazonia. The book draws on
ethnographic fieldwork conducted with the Matses, a group of
hunter-gatherer forest dwellers who have lived in voluntary
isolation until fairly recently. Having worked with them for over a
decade, returning every year to their villages in the rainforest,
Camilla Morelli follows closely the life-trajectories of Matses
children, watching them shift away from the forest-based lifestyles
of their elders and move towards new horizons crisscrossed by
concrete paving, lit by the glow of electric lights and television
screens, and centered around urban practices and people. The book
uses drawings and photographs taken by the children themselves to
trace the children’s journeys—lived and imagined—from their
own perspectives, proposing an ethnographic analysis that
recognizes children’s imaginations, play, and shifting desires as
powerful catalysts of social change.
In 2008, the Canadian government established a Truth and
Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to review the history of the
residential school system, a brutal colonial project that killed
and injured many Indigenous children and left a legacy of trauma
and pain. In Fragments of Truth Naomi Angel analyzes the visual
culture of reconciliation and memory in relation to this complex
and painful history. In her analyses of archival photographs from
the residential school system, representations of the schools in
popular media and literature, and testimonies from TRC proceedings,
Angel traces how the TRC served as a mechanism through which
memory, trauma, and visuality became apparent. She shows how many
Indigenous communities were able to use the TRC process as a way to
claim agency over their memories of the schools. Bringing to light
the ongoing costs of transforming settler states into modern
nations, Angel demonstrates how the TRC offers a unique optic
through which to survey the long history of colonial oppression of
Canada's Indigenous populations.
Native American Roots: Relationality and Indigenous Regeneration
Under Empire, 1770-1859 explores the development of modern
Indigenous identities within the settler colonial context of the
early United States. With an aggressively expanding United States
that sought to displace Native peoples, the very foundations of
Indigeneity were endangered by the disruption of Native connections
to the land. This volume describes how Natives embedded
conceptualizations integral to Indigenous ontologies into social
and cultural institutions like racial ideologies, black
slaveholding, and Christianity that they incorporated from the
settler society. This process became one vital avenue through which
various Native peoples were able to regenerate Indigeneity within
environments dominated by a settler society. The author offers case
studies of four different tribes to illustrate how Native thought
processes, not just cultural and political processes, helped
Natives redefine the parameters of Indigeneity. This book will be
of interest to students and scholars of early American history,
indigenous and ethnic studies, American historiography, and
anthropology.
Native American Roots: Relationality and Indigenous Regeneration
Under Empire, 1770-1859 explores the development of modern
Indigenous identities within the settler colonial context of the
early United States. With an aggressively expanding United States
that sought to displace Native peoples, the very foundations of
Indigeneity were endangered by the disruption of Native connections
to the land. This volume describes how Natives embedded
conceptualizations integral to Indigenous ontologies into social
and cultural institutions like racial ideologies, black
slaveholding, and Christianity that they incorporated from the
settler society. This process became one vital avenue through which
various Native peoples were able to regenerate Indigeneity within
environments dominated by a settler society. The author offers case
studies of four different tribes to illustrate how Native thought
processes, not just cultural and political processes, helped
Natives redefine the parameters of Indigeneity. This book will be
of interest to students and scholars of early American history,
indigenous and ethnic studies, American historiography, and
anthropology.
In an era of climate change, the need to manage our water resources
effectively for future generations has become an increasingly
significant challenge. Indigenous management practices have been
successfully used to manage inland water systems around the world
for thousands of years, and Indigenous people have been calling for
a greater role in the management of water resources. As First
Peoples and as holders of important knowledge of sustainable water
management practices, they regard themselves as custodians and
rights holders, deserving of a meaningful role in decision-making.
This book argues that a key (albeit not the only) means of ensuring
appropriate participation in decision-making about water management
is for such participation to be legislatively mandated. To this
end, the book draws on case studies in Australia and New Zealand in
order to elaborate the legislative tools necessary to ensure
Indigenous participation, consultation and representation in the
water management landscape.
Sharing Authority in the Museum provides a detailed and fully
contextualised study of a heritage assemblage over time, from the
mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Focussing on Maori
objects, predominantly originating from the Nga Paerangi tribe,
housed in Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum, the book examines thenuances
of cross-cultural interactions between an indigenous community and
an anthropological museum. Analysis centres on the legacy of
historic ethnographic collecting on indigenous communities and
museums, and the impact of different value systems and world views
on access to heritage objects. Questions of curatorial
responsibilities and authority over access rights are explored.
Proposing a method for indigenous engagement to address this
legacy, and making recommendations to guide participants when
forging relationships based around indigenous cultural heritage,
Michelle Horwood shows how to negotiate power and authority within
these assemblages. She argues that by doing this and acknowledging
and communicating our difficult histories, together we can move
from collaborative approaches to shared authority and indigenous
self-determination, progressing the task of decolonising the
museum. Addressing a salient, complex issue by way of a grounded
case study, Sharing Authority in the Museum is key reading for
museum practitioners working with ethnographic collections, as well
as scholars and students working in the fields of museum, heritage,
Indigenous or cultural studies. It should also be of great interest
to indigenous communities wishing to take the lessons learned from
Nga Paerangi's experiences further within their own spheres of
museum engagement.
Land settlement schemes, sponsored by national governments and
businesses, such as the Ford Corporation and the Hudson's Bay
Company, took place in locations as diverse as the Canadian
Prairies, the Dutch polders, and the Amazonian rainforests. This
novel contribution evaluates a diverse range of these initiatives.
By 1900, any land that remained available for agricultural
settlement was often far from the settlers' homes and located in
challenging physical environments. Over the course of the twentieth
century, governments, corporations and frequently desperate
individuals sought out new places to settle across the globe from
Alberta to Papua New Guinea. This book offers vivid reports of the
difficulties faced by many of these settlers, including the
experiences of East European Jewish refugees, New Zealand soldier
settlers and urban families from Yorkshire. This book considers how
and why these settlement schemes succeeded, found other pathways to
sustainability or succumbed to failure and even oblivion. In doing
so, the book indicates pathways for the achievement of more
economically, socially and environmentally sustainable forms of
human settlement in marginal areas. This engaging collection will
be of interest to individuals in the fields of historical
geography, environmental history and development studies.
This book corrects the tendency in scholarly work to leave
Indigenous peoples on the margins of discussions of environmental
inequality by situating them as central activists in struggles to
achieve environmental justice. Drawing from archival and interview
data, it examines and compares the historical and contemporary
processes through which Indigenous fishing rights have been
negotiated in the United States, Australia and New Zealand, where
three unique patterns have emerged and persist. It thus reveals the
agential dynamics and the structural constraints that have resulted
in varying degrees of success for Indigenous communities who are
struggling to define the terms of their rights to access
traditionally harvested fisheries, while also gaining economic
stability through commercial fishing enterprises. Presenting rich
narratives of conquest and resistance, domination and resilience,
and marginalization and revitalization, the author uncovers the
fundamentally cultural, political and ecological dynamics of
colonization and explores the key mechanisms through which
Indigenous assertions of rights to natural resources can
systematically transform enduring political and cultural vestiges
of colonization. A study of environmental justice as a fundamental
ingredient in broader processes of decolonization, Environmental
Justice as Decolonization will appeal to scholars of sociology,
anthropology, environmental studies, law and Indigenous studies.
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