An ethnographic study of the Ch orti Maya of Guatemala and their reformulation of their history and identity.... Lees meer.

Mapping Modernisms brings together scholars working around the world to address the modern arts produced by indigenous and colonized artists. Expanding the contours of modernity and its visual products the contributors illustrate how these artists engaged with ideas o... Lees meer.

In the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act HHCA of 1921 the U.S. Congress defined native Hawaiians as those people with at least one-half blood quantum of individuals inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands prior to 1778. This blood logic has since become an entrenched part... Lees meer.

Argues that tourism nostalgia and authenticity converge in the creation of salvage tourism which blends tourism and history contestations over citizenship identity belonging and the continued use of Indians and Indianness as a means of escape entertainment and... Lees meer.

As calls for reparations to indigenous peoples grow on every continent issues around resource extraction and dispossession raise complex legal questions. What do these disputes mean to those affected. How do the narratives of indigenous people legal professionals an... Lees meer.

Secondly it employs layout pattern analysis to distinguish transformation patterns hence revealing an unbroken cultural link between residents and their roots. The research work is directed towards developing culture-responsive public housing design frameworks that ar... Lees meer.

This book explores the critical linkages between indigeneity marginality and the state in Bangladesh. Indigeneity is progressively gaining currency in politics and thereby becoming an active force in the larger context of national activism with transnational patronage... Lees meer.

Transforms our understanding of Louisiana Creole community identity formation and practiceOver the course of more than three centuries the diverse communities of Louisiana have engaged in creative living practices to forge a vibrant multifaceted and fully developed C... Lees meer.

Truly Human explores the lifeworlds ethics and political strategies of Indigenous peoples in Taiwan amid colonialism geopolitical tensions and internal political conflicts. The Sediq and Truku Indigenous peoples on the mountainous island of Formosa today call... Lees meer.

In Fictions of Land and Flesh Mark Rifkin explores the impasses that arise in seeking to connect Black and Indigenous movements turning to speculative fiction to understand those difficulties and envision productive ways of addressing them. Against efforts to subsume... Lees meer.

Winner of a NWSA University of Illinois Press First Book Prize Nishant Upadhyay unravels Indian diasporic complicity in its ongoing colonialist relationship with Indigenous peoples lands and nations in Canada. Upadhyay examines the interwoven and simultaneous areas of... Lees meer.

Since Israel conquered the West Bank formerly held by Jordan in 1967 over 400 000 settlers have moved into the territory. In recent years Israeli settler organizations and allied American-Jewish lobbyists have responded to international condemnation of the occupati... Lees meer.

Conceptually rich and grounded in cutting-edge research this book addresses the often-overlooked roles and implications of diversity and indigeneity in curriculum. Taking a multidisciplinary approach to the development of teacher education in Guatemala L pez provides... Lees meer.

In the Global South indigenous people have been continuously subjected to top-down and often violent processes of post-colonial state and nation building. This book examines the development dilemmas of the indigenous people adivasis of the Indian state of Kerala. I... Lees meer.

As tourists increasingly moved across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries a surprising number of communities looked to capitalize on the histories of Native American people to create tourist attractions. From the Happy Canyon Indian P... Lees meer.