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Indigenous Modernities in South America (Hardcover)
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Indigenous Modernities in South America (Hardcover)
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Indigenous peoples have been cast as representing modernity’s
fading premodern Other. This volume starts from the opposite
assumption, namely that contemporary indigenous peoples are
specifically modern societies, profoundly shaped by their specific
ways of dealing with, making use of and transforming the contexts
imposed by nation-states, colonial systems and globalization. They
do that from a position alternative to that of the modern West. The
book aims to understand these processes and the resulting forms of
indigenous modernities in Lowland South America through
ethnographic case studies. It argues that there is more about
indigenous modernities than the simple assertion that indigenous
peoples are now modern too. Indigenous groups are modern in
multiple, complex and alternative ways. As the contributions show
this holds true for current forms of shamanism and indigenous
Christian churches, new meanings of traditional clothing, as well
as indigenous cosmologies that confront western concepts,
technology and welfare programs. The notion of indigenous
modernities refers to a space beyond old modernist dichotomies. The
paradox, like the disturbing Otherness it brings to our attention,
is the result of a relation in which assumptions we take
ontologically for granted are confronted by other realities.
Looking at the creative ways indigenous peoples’ practices
subvert such assumptions may result in substantial irritation and
is a starting point for a renewed reflection on classical
assumptions about modernities and indigenous ways of both being
modern and exceeding modernity in the face of long-standing power
inequalities and the imposition of logics of Western ontology.
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