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Views of the modern Caribbean have been constructed by a fiction of
the absent aboriginal. Yet, all across the Caribbean Basin,
individuals and communities are reasserting their identities as
indigenous peoples, from Carib communities in the Lesser Antilles,
the Garifuna of Central America, and the Taino of the Greater
Antilles, to members of the Caribbean diaspora. Far from
extinction, or permanent marginality, the region is witnessing a
resurgence of native identification and organization. This is the
only volume to date that focuses concerted attention on a
phenomenon that can no longer be ignored. Territories covered
include Belize, Cuba, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, French
Guiana, Guyana, St. Vincent, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and the
Puerto Rican diaspora. Writing from a range of contemporary
perspectives on indigenous presence, identities, the struggle for
rights, relations with the nation-state, and globalization,
fourteen scholars, including four indigenous representatives,
contribute to this unique tesament to cultural survival. This book
will be indispensable to students of Caribbean history and
anthropology, indigenous studies, ethnicity, and globalization.
What happens to indigenous culture and identity when being rooted
in a fixed cultural setting is no longer necessary - or even
possible? Does cultural displacement mean that indigeneity
vanishes? How is being and becoming indigenous (i.e., indigeneity)
experienced and practiced along translocal pathways? How are "new"
philosophies and politics of indigenous identification (indigenism)
constructed in "new", translocal settings? The essays in this
collection develop our understandings of cosmopolitanism and
transnationalism, and related processes and experiences of social
and cultural globalization, showing us that these do not spell the
end of ways of being and becoming indigenous. Instead, indigeneity
is reengaged in wider fields, finding alternative ways of being
established and projected, or bolstering older ways of doing so,
while reaching out to other cultures.
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