Tag: Indigenous

Free Download Thomas D. Hall, "Indigenous Peoples and Globalization: Resistance and Revitalization"
English | ISBN: 1594516588 | 2009 | 208 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The issues native peoples face intensify with globalization. Through case studies from around the world, Hall and Fenelon demonstrate how indigenous peoples? movements can only be understood by linking highly localized processes with larger global and historical forces. The authors show that indigenous peoples have been resisting and adapting to encounters with states for millennia. Unlike other antiglobalization activists, indigenous peoples primarily seek autonomy and the right to determine their own processes of adaptation and change, especially in relationship to their origin lands and community. The authors link their analyses to current understandings of the evolution of globalization.

Free Download Alan Durston, "Indigenous Languages, Politics, and Authority in Latin America: Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives"
English | ISBN: 0268103690 | 2018 | 276 pages | EPUB | 363 KB
This volume makes a vital and original contribution to a topic that lies at the intersection of the fields of history, anthropology, and linguistics. The book is the first to consider indigenous languages as vehicles of political orders in Latin America from the sixteenth century to the present, across regional and national contexts, including Peru, Mexico, Guatemala, and Paraguay. The chapters focus on languages that have been prominent in multiethnic colonial and national societies and are well represented in the written record: Guarani, Quechua, some of the Mayan languages, Nahuatl, and other Mesoamerican languages. The contributors put into dialogue the questions and methodologies that have animated anthropological and historical approaches to the topic, including ethnohistory, philology, language politics and ideologies, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and metapragmatics. Some of the historical chapters deal with how political concepts and discourses were expressed in indigenous languages, while others focus on multilingualism and language hierarchies, where some indigenous languages, or language varieties, acquired a special status as mediums of written communication and as elite languages. The ethnographic chapters show how the deployment of distinct linguistic varieties in social interaction lays bare the workings of social differentiation and social hierarchy.

Free Download Marcus Woolombi Waters, "Indigenous Knowledge Production "
English | ISBN: 036746019X | 2020 | 188 pages | EPUB | 546 KB
Despite many scholars noting the interdisciplinary approach of Aboriginal knowledge production as a methodology within a broad range of subjects – including quantum mathematics, biodiversity, sociology and the humanities – the academic study of Indigenous knowledge and people is struggling to become interdisciplinary in its approach and move beyond its current label of ‘Indigenous Studies’.

Free Download Catherine E. Mckinley, "Indigenous Health Equity and Wellness"
English | ISBN: 0367714833 | 2022 | 192 pages | EPUB | 966 KB
This book focuses on promoting health equity and addressing health disparities among Indigenous peoples of the United States (U.S.) and associated Territories in the Pacific Islands and Caribbean.

Free Download Serah Shani, "Indigenous Elites in Africa: The Case of Kenya’s Maasai "
English | ISBN: 1032025786 | 2023 | 172 pages | EPUB | 628 KB
This book investigates the formation, configuration and consolidation of elites amongst Kenya’s Maasai.

Free Download Maggie Walter, "Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Policy "
English | ISBN: 0367567474 | 2022 | 256 pages | EPUB | 865 KB
This book examines how Indigenous Peoples around the world are demanding greater data sovereignty, and challenging the ways in which governments have historically used Indigenous data to develop policies and programs.

Free Download Chris Cunneen, "Indigenous Criminology "
English | ISBN: 1447321766 | 2017 | 176 pages | EPUB | 821 KB
Indigenous Criminology is the first book to comprehensively explore Indigenous people’s contact with criminal justice systems in a contemporary and historical context. Drawing on comparative Indigenous material from North America, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, it addresses both the theoretical underpinnings to the development of a specific Indigenous criminology, and canvasses the broader policy and practice implications for criminal justice. Written by leading criminologists specialising in Indigenous justice issues, the book argues for the importance of Indigenous knowledges and methodologies to criminology, and suggests that colonialism needs to be a fundamental concept to criminology in order to understand contemporary problems such as deaths in custody, high imprisonment rates, police brutality and the high levels of violence in some Indigenous communities. Prioritising the voices of Indigenous peoples, the work will make a significant contribution to the development of a decolonising criminology and will be of wide interest.

Free Download Professor Carolyn Smith-Morris, "Indigenous Communalism: Belonging, Healthy Communities, and Decolonizing the Collective"
English | ISBN: 197880542X | 2019 | 192 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
From a grandmother’s inter-generational care to the strategic and slow consensus work of elected tribal leaders, Indigenous community builders perform the daily work of culture and communalism. Indigenous Communalism conveys age-old lessons about culture, communalism, and the universal tension between the individual and the collective. It is also a critical ethnography challenging the moral and cultural assumptions of a hyper-individualist, twenty-first century global society.

Free Download Anders Breidlid, "Education, Indigenous Knowledges, and Development in the Global South: Contesting Knowledges for a Sustainable Future"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0415895898, 0415629888 | PDF | pages: 259 | 2.3 mb
The book’s focus is the hegemonic role of so-called modernist, Western epistemology that spread in the wake of colonialism and the capitalist economic system, and its exclusion and othering of other epistemologies.

Free Download The Seven Circles: Indigenous Teachings for Living Well by Chelsey Luger, Thosh Collins
English | October 25, 2022 | ISBN: 006311920X | 222 pages | PDF | 29 Mb
In this revolutionary self-help guide, two beloved Native American wellness activists offer wisdom for achieving spiritual, physical, and emotional wellbeing rooted in Indigenous ancestral knowledge.