Decolonizing Native Histories

Collaboration, Knowledge, and Language in the Americas

Autor: Mallon, Florencia E.; McCormick, Gladys
Editor: Duke University Press
Colección: Narrating native histories
ISBN: 9780822394853
eISBN Pdf: 9780822394853
Lugar de publicación: Durham , Estados Unidos
Año de publicación digital: 2011
Mes: Diciembre
Páginas: 272
DDC: 306.44/6097
Idioma: Ingles

Descripción

Decolonizing Native Histories is an interdisciplinary collection that grapples with the racial and ethnic politics of knowledge production and indigenous activism in the Americas. It analyzes the relationship of language to power and empowerment, and advocates for collaborations between community members, scholars, and activists that prioritize the rights of Native peoples to decide how their knowledge is used. The contributors—academics and activists, indigenous and nonindigenous, from disciplines including history, anthropology, linguistics, and political science—explore the challenges of decolonization.

These wide-ranging case studies consider how language, the law, and the archive have historically served as instruments of colonialism and how they can be creatively transformed in constructing autonomy. The collection highlights points of commonality and solidarity across geographical, cultural, and linguistic boundaries and also reflects deep distinctions between North and South. Decolonizing Native Histories looks at Native histories and narratives in an internationally comparative context, with the hope that international collaboration and understanding of local histories will foster new possibilities for indigenous mobilization and an increasingly decolonized future.

Contents
About the Series
Introduction: Decolonizing Knowledge, Language, and Narrative
Part One: Land, Sovereignty, and Self- Determination
- Hawaiian Nationhood, Self- Determination, and International Law
- Issues of Land and Sovereignty: The Uneasy Relationship between Chile and Rapa Nui
Part Two: Indigenous Writing and Experiences with Collaboration
- Quechua Knowledge, Orality, and Writings: The Newspaper Conosur Ñawpagman
- Collaboration and Historical Writing: Challenges for the Indigenous–Academic Dialogue
- The Taller Tzotzil of Chiapas, Mexico: A Native Language Publishing Project, 1985–2002
- Dangerous Decolonizing: Indians and Blacks and the Legacy of Jim Crow
- Nationalist Contradictions: Pan- Mayanism, Representations of the Past, and the Reproduction of Inequalities in Guatemala
Conclusion
References
Contributors
Index