Preface / Adam Kuper -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction. Exploring indigeneity : introductory remarks / Nasir Uddin, Eva Gerharz, and Pradeep Chakkarath -- Part I. Struggles over land and resources. Chapter 1. On the nature of indigenous land : ownership, access and farming in upland northeast India / Erik de Maaker ; Chapter 2. Considering the implications of the concept of indigeneity for land and natural resource management in Cambodia, Thailand, and Laos / Ian G. Baird -- Part II. Becoming indigenous. Chapter 3. Processes of modernization, processes of indigenization : an Amazonian case (Yanomami, southern Venezuela) / Gabriele Herzog-Schröder ; Chapter 4. Indigenous activism beyond ethnic groups : shifting boundaries and constellations of belonging / Eva Gerharz ; Chapter 5. In search of self : identity, indigeneity, and cultural politics in Bangladesh / Nasir Uddin -- Part III. Indigeneity as a political resource. Chapter 6. Different trajectories of indigenous rights movements in Africa : insights from Cameroon and Tanzania / Michaela Pelican ; Chapter 7. Politics of indigeneity in the Andean highlands : indigenous social movements and the state in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru (1940-2015) / Olaf Kaltmeier ; Chapter 8. Conflicting dimensions of indigeneity as a contested political resource in contemporary Mexico / Gilberto Rescher -- Part IV. Indigeneity and the state. Chapter 9. Intimate antagonisms : Adivasis and the state in contemporary India / Uday Chandra ; Chapter 10. Indigeneity, culture and the state : social change and legal reforms in Latin America / Wolfgang Gabbert ; Chapter 11. Fluid indigeneities in the Indian Ocean : a small history of the state and its other / Philipp Zehmisch -- Postscriptum. The futures of indigenous medicine : networks, contexts, freedom / William S. Sax -- Index.
Summary:
Indigeneity" has become a prominent yet contested concept in national and international politics, as well as within the social sciences. This edited volume draws from authors representing different disciplines and perspectives, exploring the dependence of indigeneity on varying sociopolitical contexts, actors, and discourses with the ultimate goal of investigating the concept's scientific and political potential.
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