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1948-, Spigner-Littles Dorscine, ed. A practitioner's guide to understanding indigenous and foreign cultures. 2nd ed. Springfield, Ill., U.S.A: C.C. Thomas, 1996.
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A practitioner's guide to understanding indigenous and foreign cultures. Springfield, Ill., U.S.A: Charles C. Thomas, 1989.
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Lefèber, Yvonne. Indigenous customs in childbirth and child care. Assen, Netherlands: Van Gorcum, 1998.
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Scott, Kim, Rosalie Thackrah, and Joan Winch. Indigenous Australian health and cultures: An introduction for health professionals. Frenchs Forest, N.S.W: Pearson Australia, 2011.
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Broken circles: Fragmenting indigenous families, 1800-2000. Fremantle, W.A: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2000.
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Marco, Aparicio, ed. Caminos hacia el reconocimiento: Pueblos indígenas, derechos y pluralismo = Camins cap el reconeixement : pobles indígenes, drets i pluralisme. Girona: Universitat de Girona, 2005.
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Arctic Institute of North America, ed. Biocultural diversity and indigenous ways of knowing: Human ecology in the Arctic. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2009.
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1961-, Bell Catherine E., and Napoleon Val 1956-, eds. First Nations cultural heritage and law: Case studies, voices, and perspectives. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 2008.
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White mother to a dark race: Settler colonialism, maternalism, and the removal of indigenous children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.
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Alderete, Ethel. Salud y pueblos indígenas. Quito, Ecuador: Abya Yala, 2004.
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Plural medical systems in the Horn of Africa: The legacy of "Sheikh" Hippocrates. London: Kegan Paul International, 1990.
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Physicians at work, patients in pain: Biomedical practice and patient response in Mexico. Boulder: Westview Press, 1991.
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Australia's rural and remote health: A social justice perspective. 2nd ed. Croydon, Vic: Tertiary Press, 2007.
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F, Mira Joan. La cara de los otros: La imagen de los pueblos "exóticos" en la Europa de los siglos XVIII y XIX : colección Joan F. Mira : Museu de Prehistòria i de les Cultures de València, ciclo Miradas Lejanas, del 19 de diciembre de 2001 al 28 de abril de 2002. Valencia]: Diputació de València, Area de Cultura, 2002.
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Centro de Desarrollo Comunitario Causananchispaj, ed. La construcción de una vida digna desde la cosmovisión de los Ayllus Quechuas en Potosí: Sistematización de los procesos políticos de empoderamiento indígena y salud comunitaria intercultural en los ayllus de los municipios de Caiza D y Cotagaita junto al Centro de Desarrollo Comunitario CAUSANANCHISPAJ. [Bolivia]: Centro de Desarrollo Comuntario Causananchispaj, 2010.
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Joan, Koss-Chioino, Leatherman Thomas L, and Greenway Christine, eds. Medical pluralism in the Andes. New York: Routledge, 2002.
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Economic issues of Vancouver-Whistler 2010 Olympics. 2nd ed. Toronto: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006.
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1939-, Parkin Michael, ed. Economic issues of Vancouver-Whistler 2010 Olympics. 2nd ed. Toronto: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2005.
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Silbermann, Michael, and Ann Berger. Global Perspectives in Cancer Care. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780197551349.001.0001.
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In this book, we focused on different cultures, traditions and faiths. Many parts of the world have indigenous cultures and spiritual beliefs in addition to the primary religion. There are chapters on indigenous religions as well as indigenous traditional healers. People everywhere experience trouble, sorrow, need and sickness and they develop skills and knowledge in response to these adversaries. This book provides insightful models of these parameters and serves as a valuable resource for healthcare providers and policymakers by taking a global approach to cultural diversity in the world. By understanding this cultural diversity and the many faces of psychological, social and spiritual dimensions of health and healing, we can learn from one another.
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Vega, Rosalynn A. No Alternative: Childbirth, Citizenship, and Indigenous Culture in Mexico. University of Texas Press, 2018.
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Vega, Rosalynn A. No Alternative: Childbirth, Citizenship, and Indigenous Culture in Mexico. de Gruyter GmbH, Walter, 2018.
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No Alternative: Childbirth, Citizenship, and Indigenous Culture in Mexico. University of Texas Press, 2018.
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Minter, Peter, and Belinda Wheeler. The Indigenous Australian Novel. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199679775.003.0021.
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The history of the Indigenous Australian novel begins in the second half of the twentieth century and can be traced to the traditions of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia. The Indigenous novel combines elements of the oral and performance traditions of classical Indigenous cultures with one of Western modernity's central narrative forms. The traditions of storytelling and poetic narration that underpin the Indigenous novel have always occupied a central place in the cultural expression of Indigenous peoples. The chapter considers Indigenous Australian novels published in four different periods: before and during the mid-1970s, 1978–1987, 1988–2000, and 2000 to the present. These include David Unaipon's (Ngarrindjeri) My Life Story (1954), Shirley Perry Smith's (Wiradjuri) Mum Shirl: An Autobiography (1981), Ruby Langford Ginibi's Don't Take Your Love to Town (1988), Kim Scott's Benang (2000), and Alexis Wright's Carpentaria (2006).
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Guerrieri, Pilar Maria. Negotiating Cultures. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199479580.001.0001.
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This book focuses on the city of Delhi, one of the largest mega-cities in the world, and examines—from a historical perspective—the processes of hybridization between cultures within its local architecture and urban planning from 1912, when the British Town Planning Committee for New Delhi was formed, to 1962, when the first Master plan was implemented. The research originates directly from primary documents and examines how and to what extent the city plans, the neighbourhoods, the types of residential, public buildings and the architectural styles have changed over time. The analysis of architectural elements, the city and its intricacies, is in itself useful to understand how foreign models were adopted, how much resistance was encountered, and how much adaptation there was to local conditions. The book establishes and demonstrates that Delhi has played an active role in the complex process of hybridization in both the pre- and post-Independence periods, developing its own character as opposed to merely accepting what was brought from abroad. Both periods have been characterized by a resilient and continuing compromise between indigenous and foreign elements and thus the post-1947 period cannot be construed as more ‘indigenous’ than that which preceded it. Delhi can be considered to be a comprehensive model or case study of the intermingling and conflict of cultures; its initial transition period, when the actual mega-city was born, gives an important starting point to critically investigate the current phenomenon of globalization.
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(Editor), Ann-Katrin Eckermann, Toni Dowd (Editor), Ena Chong (Editor), Lynette Nixon (Editor), Roy Gray (Editor), and Sally Margaret Johnson (Editor), eds. Binan Goonj: Bridging Cultures in Aboriginal Health. 2nd ed. Not Avail, 2005.
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Gould, D. Rae, Holly Herbster, Heather Law Pezzarossi, and Stephen A. Mrozowski. Historical Archaeology and Indigenous Collaboration. University Press of Florida, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813066219.001.0001.
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This multi-authored case study of three Nipmuc sites is an introductory archaeology text that includes a tribal member as one of the scholars. Collaboration between the authors over two decades is a key theme in the book, serving as a model for a primary topic of the book. Historical Archaeology and Indigenous Collaboration engages young scholars in archaeology and Native American history, teaching them about respecting and including indigenous knowledge and perspectives on colonization and indigenous identity. A key asset is access by indigenous peoples whose past is explored in this book. The case study offers an arena in which Nipmuc history continues to unfold, from the pre-Contact period up to the present, and stresses the strong relationships between Nipmuc people of the past and present to their land and related social and political conflicts over time. A double narrative approach (the authors sharing their experiences while exploring the stories of individuals from the past whose voices emerge through their work) explores key issues of continuity, commonality, authenticity and identity many Native people have confronted today and in the past. As a model of collaborative archaeology, the relationships that developed between the authors stress the critical role personal relationships play in the development and growth of scholarly collaborations. Beyond being “engaged,” indigenous peoples need to be integral to any research focused on their history and culture. Although not entirely a new concept, this book demonstrates how collaboration can move beyond engagement and consultation to true incorporation of indigenous knowledge and scholarship.
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Russell-Smith, Jeremy, Peter Whitehead, and Peter Cooke, eds. Culture, Ecology and Economy of Fire Management in North Australian Savannas. CSIRO Publishing, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643098299.
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This engaging volume explores the management of fire in one of the world’s most flammable landscapes: Australia’s tropical savannas, where on average 18% of the landscape is burned annually. Impacts have been particularly severe in the Arnhem Land Plateau, a centre of plant and animal diversity on Indigenous land.
Culture, Ecology and Economy of Fire Management in North Australian Savannas documents a remarkable collaboration between Arnhem Land’s traditional landowners and the scientific community to arrest a potentially catastrophic fire-driven decline in the natural and cultural assets of the region – not by excluding fire, but by using it better through restoration of Indigenous control over burning.
This multi-disciplinary treatment encompasses the history of fire use in the savannas, the post-settlement changes that altered fire patterns, the personal histories of a small number of people who lived most of their lives on the plateau and, critically, their deep knowledge of fire and how to apply it to care for country. Uniquely, it shows how such knowledge and commitment can be deployed in conjunction with rigorous formal scientific analysis, advanced technology, new cross-cultural institutions and the emerging carbon economy to build partnerships for controlling fire at scales that were, until this demonstration, thought beyond effective intervention.
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Hageman, Anya, and Pauline Galoustian. Economic Aspects of the Indigenous Experience in Canada. Queen's University, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/b0a67ddbac0f.
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This text explores the economic history and economic potential of Indigenous peoples in Canada. It discusses which institutional arrangements hold them back economical and which institutions assist them going forward, and considers which norms do Indigenous communities hold that inform their priorities and economic behaviour. <> Chapters 1 and 2 introduce the Indigenous Peoples of Canada – First Nations, Métis and Inuit – and their current demographic and income statistics. Chapters 3-12 describe their cultures, economies and geopolitics up until the late twentieth century. Chapters 13 and 14 discuss how discrimination against minorities can be modeled and measured. Finally, Chapters 15+ describe present-day issues in the economic development of Indigenous communities. <> Note for Instructors: Instructors may wish to begin the term of study with presentations or readings on the peoples indigenous to the school’s location. As the course progresses, instructors can lead students to discover how the topics covered in the book apply to local communities past and present. Instructors can also make students aware of local opportunities for Indigenous – non-Indigenous interaction and cooperation. This text flows in chronological order until Chapter 12. Instructors should use their own discretion about whether and when they want to use Chapters 12-14. Chapter 15 picks up the historical thread. The use of talking circles and other discussion forums is recommended, as conversation is a traditional Indigenous teaching method, and the issues covered in this book are emotionally weighty.
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A Practitioner's Guide to Understanding Indigenous and Foreign Cultures: An Analysis of Relationships Between Ethnicity, Social Class and Therapeutic Intervention Strategies. 3rd ed. Charles C. Thomas Publisher, 2006.
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Clark Barrett, H. Dynamics of Culture Change and Cultural Stability among the Shuar of Ecuador. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190492908.003.0011.
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This chapter examines the dynamics of culture change and cultural stability among the Shuar, an indigenous Amazonian society in southeastern Ecuador. While the Shuar have always engaged in transactions with markets and global flows in Ecuador and beyond, rapid changes in technology and infrastructure in the Amazon region are leading to changes in economic and social practices, norms, ideologies, and modes of interaction within and across Shuar society. The conceptual tools of cultural evolutionary theory may help readers to understand which aspects of Shuar social and economic life remain relatively stable through these transitions and which aspects undergo rapid change and why. This chapter proposes a framework for theorizing domains of change and stasis in contemporary Shuar culture and suggests ways in which this framework can be applied to understanding broader questions about the dynamics of human cultural history.
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Patrick, Macklem. Part III Indigenous Peoples and the Canadian Constitution, C Indigenous Peoples and the Constitution Act, 1982, Ch.15 The Form and Substance of Aboriginal Title: Assimilation, Recognition, Reconciliation. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780190664817.003.0015.
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This chapter highlights law’s participation in the colonizing projects that initiated the establishment of the Canadian constitutional order. Imperial and subsequently Canadian law deemed legally insignificant the deep connections that Indigenous peoples had with their ancestral territories, and imposed alien norms of conduct on diverse Indigenous ways of life. In doing so, law legitimated the manifold political, social, and economic acts of dispossession and dislocation that collectively bear the label of colonialism. The constitutional entrenchment of Aboriginal and treaty rights in 1982 formally recognized a distinctive constitutional relationship between Indigenous peoples and Canada. The judiciary has begun to see the purpose of formal constitutional recognition to be a process of substantive constitutional reconciliation of the interests of Canada and Indigenous peoples. This chapter argues that constitutional reconciliation can only commence by comprehending Aboriginal rights and title as protecting Indigenous interests associated with culture, territory, treaties, and sovereignty in robust terms.
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Gilbert, Jérémie. Perspectives on Cultural Genocide. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190272654.003.0018.
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Cultural genocide broadly refers to ‘the extermination of a culture that does not involve physical extermination of its people’. This chapter examines how, from a criminal law concept, cultural genocide has moved to a concept aimed at protecting cultural diversity. This chapter in Section II will first examine how and why the crime was rejected under international criminal law. Based on this analysis, it will then examine how human rights law, which was meant to address the issue of cultural protection of minorities, has in fact left this area of the law undeveloped. Section III will then assess to what extent the notion of cultural genocide can act as an important tool for conflict prevention when minorities’ cultural assets are under attack. Finally, Section IV will explore how the indigenous peoples’ rights movement has renewed the idea that prohibiting cultural genocide constitutes an essential elements of human rights law.
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Fortier, Martin. Sense of reality, metacognition, and culture in schizophrenic and drug-induced hallucinations. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789710.003.0016.
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Hallucinations possess two main components: (i) a sensory content; (ii) a sense that the sensory content is real. Influential models of schizophrenic hallucination claim that both the sensory content and the sense of reality can be explained in terms of metacognitive dysfunction. This chapter assesses whether such a claim holds for schizophrenic and drug-induced hallucinations; it further attempts to determine the actual role of metacognition in hallucination and how this role is liable to vary across cultures. It is first argued that the notion of sense of reality is heterogeneous and should therefore be divided into distinct kinds. Next, some monitoring-based models of hallucination are presented, and it is shown that they fail to explain important aspects of hallucinations. It is subsequently suggested that the main mechanisms of serotoninergic hallucinogens are not metacognitive, whereas those of anticholinergic hallucinogens importantly tap into subpersonal metacognitive processes. Finally, after specific consideration of the use of ayahuasca across different Amazonian indigenous groups, it is proposed that the metacognitive properties of hallucinogenic experiences can be variously exploited or ignored depending on cultural expectations.
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Maxson, Rachel E., Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh, and Lee Wayne Lomayestewa. Lost in Translation: Rethinking Hopi Katsina Tithu and Museum Language Systems. Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.55485/lccz3131.
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Museums collect and care for material culture, and, increasingly, intangible culture. This relatively new term for the folklore, music, dance, traditional practices, and language belonging to a group of people is gaining importance in international heritage management discourse. As one aspect of intangible cultural heritage, language is more relevant in museums than has been previously acknowledged. Incorporating native languages into museum anthropology collections provides context and acts as a form of “appropriate museology,” preserving indigenous descriptions and conceptions of objects. This report presents the ways in which Hopi katsina tithu—popularly known as kachina dolls—are outstanding examples of objects that museums can recontextualize with Native terminology. The etymology, or a word or phrase’s use history, of each katsina tihu’s name documents the deep connection of these objects with Hopi belief, ritual, and history. Without including the complex practices of Hopi naming, documentation of these objects in museum catalogues is often incomplete and inaccurate. Using contemporary Hopi perspectives, historic ethnographies, and the Hopi Dictionary to create adatabase of Hopi katsina tithu names, this project demonstrates how museums might incorporate intangible heritage into their collections through language and etymological context.
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Young, Robert J. C. Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198856832.001.0001.
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Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction describes how people around the world have increasingly challenged the idea that Western perspectives are the only ones that count. It examines the history of that challenge, outlining the ideas behind it, and exploring how the histories and cultures of the world can be rethought in new, productive directions. This VSI situates the discussion in wide cultural and geographical contexts. It draws on examples such as the situation of indigenous peoples, of those dispossessed from their lands, Algerian raï music, and global social and ecological movements. This new edition also includes updated material on race, slavery, decoloniality, and the postcolonial politics of gender and sexualities.
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Dino, Nelson, Baharudin Arus, Lokman Abdul Samad, and Jul-Amin Ampang. Suluk Ukkil on the Barong Expressions, motifs and meanings. UMS Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.51200/sulukukkilnelsonums2021.
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With its origin dating back to as early as the 500 BC, the ukkil forms part of a centuries-old woodcarving art and tradition of the Suluk, one of the many indigenous ethnic groups of Nusantara (Southeast Asia). Suluk ukkil bears striking resemblance to the Malay ukir, both featuring similar patterns and motifs. The ukkil is often used to decorate jewellery, boats, houses, grave markers, and mosques. It is also used to decorate the hilts and sheaths of bladed weapons such as the barung. The barung refers to the thick, leaf-shaped sword of the Suluk. A barung with beautifully carved hilt and sheath, especially those using expensive wood, is considered high value and usually reserved for Suluk aristocrats. This book narrates the expressions, motifs and meanings behind ukkil carved on the barung. It is based on the results of a two-year field research conducted in different districts of Sabah. It presents data gathered through various interviews with owners, elders, and subject-matter experts. It also presents data from direct observations of heirloom barung that are still found in the hands of a few Suluk and individuals from other indigenous ethnic groups. It presents new insights from analysis made using the Theory of Iconology, a framework of analyzing art popularized by German art historian Erwin Panofsky. The predominant themes of ukkil found on ancient barung in Sabah are Islamic; zoomorphic such as birds, lizards, snakes, and squids; plantomorphic such as vines, flowers, and leaves; and cultural such as those depicting local myths, culture, values and traditions of the Suluk. Each of these images and themes represent realities that shaped the daily lives of the Suluk from the past until today, including the wind, the ocean waves and sea currents, all of which are essential for travel and navigation. They also depict concepts, beliefs and practices important to the Suluk such as freedom, livelihood, aristocracy, harmony within the community, leadership, spirituality, and Islamic principles. The Suluk are a sea-faring people who have a deep relationship with their immediate environment, especially the sea. Suluk carvers draw inspiration from nature, the environment around them, their local culture, their religious practices, and their own values and ideals in life. Both the ukkil and the barung are an embodiment of their rich past, their livelihood, creativity, their faith, their principles and their values in life. Sadly, the practice of ukkil-carving is fast declining nowadays, with only very few practitioners left and so few individuals interested in learning about it. The barung too, where the ukkil is often carved on, is no longer being produced in large numbers. As the ukkil, like all forms of art, constitute an integral part of a nation’s culture and identity, it is important for it to be understood, preserved, and protected. This book provides fresh knowledge and insights that will help the Suluk and other indigenous tribes of Malaysia and Nusantara in the understanding and preservation of the ukkil as an essential aspect of their country’s or their region’s culture and heritage. This book offers historical background that will help explain the identity of the Suluk as a culturally and artistically advanced people with deep interconnection with other indigenous ethnic groups in Malaysia and the rest of Nusantara as early as the pre-colonial period. Knowledge about the ukkil can help people connect and correct their thoughts about the Suluk while at the same time promote cultural awareness and diversity among Malaysians and other people in Southeast Asia. This book will hopefully pave the way for more research to be done on the arts and culture, not just of the Suluk but also of other indigenous ethnic groups in the region as well. That knowledge will serve as a medium for keeping harmony and cultural links among each and every Malaysian and Nusantaran.
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Bhatia, Sunil. Toward a Transnational Cultural Psychology. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199964727.003.0008.
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In this chapter, a decolonizing perspective is used to show how urban Indian youth identities across the different classes unsettle long-held beliefs about Eurocentric understandings of youth culture, identity, and subjectivities. It also shows how narrative psychology can be useful in providing a counterpoint to the depoliticized, individualistic, and universal views of culture. A vision of psychology is articulated that locates the psychological understanding of identity, cultural difference, power, and practices in neoliberal transnational contexts and reimagines the discipline of psychology in which concepts of narrative and indigenous psychology, social justice, and equity are central. It is argued that psychology has not developed a meaningful theoretical vocabulary or a willingness to explore questions of social justice that are wrapped around qualitative methods and community-based practices because these are usually conducted in faraway places with marginalized populations that have no history or recognition in American psychology or in the United States.
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Schorch, Philipp, and Conal McCarthy, eds. Curatopia. Manchester University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526118196.001.0001.
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What is the future of curatorial practice? How can the relationships between Indigenous people in the Pacific, collections in Euro-American institutions, and curatorial knowledge in museums globally be (re)conceptualised in reciprocal and symmetrical ways? Is there an ideal model, a ‘curatopia,’ whether in the form of a utopia or dystopia, which can enable the reinvention of ethnographic museums and address their difficult colonial legacies? This volume addresses these questions by considering the current state of the play in curatorial practice, reviewing the different models and approaches operating in different museums, galleries and cultural organisations around the world, and debating the emerging concerns, challenges, and opportunities. The subject areas range over native and tribal cultures, anthropology, art, history, migration and settler culture, among others. Topics covered include: contemporary curatorial theory, new museum trends, models and paradigms, the state of research and scholarship, the impact of new media, and current issues such as curatorial leadership, collecting and collection access and use, exhibition development, and community engagement. The volume is international in scope and covers three broad regions—Europe, North America and the Pacific. The contributors are leading and emerging scholars and practitioners in their respective fields, all of whom have worked in and with universities and museums, and are therefore perfectly placed to reshape the dialogue between academia and the professional museum world.
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Hazarika, Manjil. Prehistory and Archaeology of Northeast India. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199474660.001.0001.
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Northeast India forms a kaleidoscope of a variety of people having distinct culture, ethnicity, religion, language, and physiology, and can be considered as a melting pot of various ethnic cultures of different backgrounds. So, what are the root causes of this bewildering ethnic diversity? The movements of people since the prehistoric period may be considered to be one of the core factors, besides several other socio-cultural, genetic, physical, and environmental explanations for this mosaic ethnic situation. Considering the movements of people of different cultural, linguistic, physical, and geographical backgrounds, it will not be impertinent to anticipate some archaeological signatures left by the ‘people’ who colonized and inhabited and migrated through the region. The book takes a closer look at those archaeological signatures and aims at reconstructing the ways of life of the prehistoric communities and their movements, dispersals, and settlements. Scanty nature of archaeological data from the region has compelled us to gather evidence from all possible scientific lines of enquiry in order to paint a vivid picture of the development of early farming societies, who must have been the ancestors of some or all of the present-day indigenous ethnic groups. This evidence is gathered from ecological, ethnographical, anthropological, and genetic sciences to inspire an interpretation of the available archaeological data. The study also strives to lay a foundation for future research strategies and to set a relevant methodology suitable for the region.
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D'Arcens, Louise. World Medievalism. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198825944.001.0001.
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World Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern Textual Culture explores the ways in which a range of modern textual cultures have continued to engage creatively with the medieval past in order to come to terms with the global present. Building its argument through four case studies—from the Middle East, France, Southeast Asia, and Indigenous Australia–it shows that to understand medievalism as a cultural idiom with global reach, we need to develop a more nuanced grasp of the different ways ‘the Middle Ages’ have come to signify beyond Europe as well as within a Europe that has been transformed by multiculturalism and the global economy. The book’s case studies are explored within a conceptual framework in which medievalism itself is formulated as ‘world-disclosing’—a transhistorical encounter that enables the modern subject to apprehend the past ‘world’ opened up in medieval and medievalist texts and objects. The book analyses the cultural and material conditions under which its texts are produced, disseminated, and received and examines literature alongside films, television programs, newspapers and journals, political tracts, as well as such material and artefactual texts as photographs, paintings, statues, buildings, rock art, and fossils. While the case studies feature distinctive localized forms of medievalism, taken together they reveal how imperial and global legacies have ensured that the medieval period continues to be perceived as a commonly held past that can be retrieved, reclaimed, or revived in response to the accelerated changes and uncertainties of global modernity.
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Watson-Gegeo, Karen Ann, David W. Gegeo, and Billy Fito'o. Critical Community Language Policies in Education. Edited by James W. Tollefson and Miguel Pérez-Milans. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190458898.013.20.
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This chapter first offers an overview of critical community language policy and planning in education (CCLPE). It provides an example of CCLPE, focusing on Malaita in the wake of the Tenson (ethnic conflict) between Guadalcanal and Malaita in Solomon Islands (SI) (1998–2007). The authors contextualize their analysis by tracing the turning points for LPP in SI history, and discuss implications of the SI case for CCLPE and the future of SI education. The analysis focuses on local processes of uncertainty and instability in times of rapid social change that undermine community faith in the nation-state. The chapter shows that indigenous communities have learned that they can exert their agency to shape LPP from the bottom up, and that the shaping must be grounded in indigenous language(s) and culture(s). This argument is consistent with the call for epistemological and ontological diversity in development theory, education, and related studies.
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Konishi, Shino. Representing Aboriginal Masculinity in Howard’s Australia. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036514.003.0008.
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This chapter examines the way in which the Howard government and its supporters revitalized colonial tropes about Aboriginal masculinity in order to progressively dismantle and undermine indigenous rights and sovereignty, culminating in the quasi-military intervention into supposedly dysfunctional Aboriginal communities towards the end of Howard's fourth term. It critiques and historicizes a range of demeaning representations that assume Aboriginal men are violent and misogynistic. These representations can be traced back to initial encounters between European and indigenous men. The aim is to bring academic, media, and governmental discourses about Aboriginal masculinity into conversation with masculinity studies, which means contextualizing notions of Aboriginal masculinity in ways that avoid unreflective colonial conceptions. Finally, the chapter examines the public response of Aboriginal men to this demonization, and how they negotiate their own masculine identities in the face of a colonial culture that disparages them for their race and gender.
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White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940. University of Nebraska Press, 2011.
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Pádua, Karla Cunha. A formação intercultural em narrativas de professores/as indígenas: Um estudo na aldeia Muã Mimatxi. Brazil Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31012/978-65-87836-32-4.
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A pioneira nos estudos sobre a influência das palavras africanas no português do Brasil é a etnolinguista, baiana, Professora Doutora Yeda Pessoa de Castro.Ela, ao longa dos últimos sessenta anos ,vem sempre “dando trela” às línguas africanas do grupo banto. Devido ao fato de nutrir grande admiração pela pesquisadora, resolvi investir numa pesquisa particular em dicionários e/ou glossários (1889-2006) para apresentar a “certidão de nascimento” de algumas palavras africanas que ao longo de pouco mais de um século estão ainda presentes na oralidade e na escrita de africanos e afro-brasileiros. In an increasingly diverse and plural world, the narratives of Pataxó indigenous teachers presented in A formação intercultural em narrativas de professores/as indígenas: um estudo na aldeia Muã Mimatxi reveal us particular ways of reflecting upon education, school and formation which can teach us a lot. The participants of the first FIEI course offered by UFMG - Intercultural Formation of Indigenous Teachers - belong to the Muã Mimatxi village located in Itapecerica, in the west-center region of Minas Gerais State; these teachers provide meaningful lessons on how to deal with cultural differences. Difference is seen as a resource to be incorporated and resignified, depending on the relations with the principles that rule their culture. This graduation course has not only benefited the collective life but it has also helped to revitalize the school, which is the central place of community life. Some of the pedagogical tools learned at the FIEI became meaningful to this group of teachers. Among them, we point out the so called project “Percursos Academicos”, a socio-ecological calendar and the idea of inter culturality. The ways such elements were appropriated and recontextualized have helped us to understand their particular conceptions of the world and the central role the school plays in their lives and in their future life projects.
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Davies, Stephen. Adornment. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350121027.
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Elaborating the history, variety, pervasiveness, and function of the adornments and ornaments with which we beautify ourselves, this book takes in human prehistory, ancient civilizations, hunter-foragers, and present-day industrial societies to tell a captivating story of hair, skin, and make-up practices across times and cultures. From the decline of the hat, the function of jewelry and popularity of tattooing to the wealth of grave goods found in the Upper Paleolithic burials and body painting of the Nuba, we see that there is no one who does not adorn themselves, their possessions, or their environment. But what messages do these adornments send? Drawing on aesthetics, evolutionary history, archaeology, ethology, anthropology, psychology, cultural history, and gender studies, Stephen Davies brings together African, Australian and North and South American indigenous cultures and unites them around the theme of adornment. He shows us that adorning is one of the few social behaviors that is close to being genuinely universal, more typical and extensive than the high-minded activities we prefer to think of as marking our species – religion, morality, and art. Each chapter shows how modes of decoration send vitally important signals about what we care about, our affiliations and backgrounds, our social status and values. In short, by using the theme of bodily adornment to unify a very diverse set of human practices, this book tells us about who we are.
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Kinyanjui, Mary Njeri. African Markets and the Utu-Ubuntu Business Model: A Perspective on Economic Informality in Nairobi. African Minds, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47622/9781928331780.
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The persistence of indigenous African markets in the context of a hostile or neglectful business and policy environment makes them worthy of analysis. An investigation of Afrocentric business ethics is long overdue. Attempting to understand the actions and efforts of informal traders and artisans from their own points of view, and analysing how they organise and get by, allows for viable approaches to be identified to integrate them into global urban models and cultures. Using the utu-ubuntu model to understand the activities of traders and artisans in Nairobi's markets, this book explores how, despite being consistently excluded and disadvantaged, they shape urban spaces in and around the city, and contribute to its development as a whole. With immense resilience, and without discarding their own socio-cultural or economic values, informal traders and artisans have created a territorial complex that can be described as the African metropolis. African Markets and the Utu-buntu Business Model sheds light on the ethics and values that underpin the work of traders and artisans in Nairobi, as well as their resilience and positive impact on urbanisation. This book makes an important contribution to the discourse on urban economics and planning in African cities.
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Baker, Patricia. Medicine. Edited by Martin Millett, Louise Revell, and Alison Moore. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697731.013.031.
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The study of ancient medicine has grown in popularity over since the early 1990s in a variety of fields, including ancient texts, epigraphy, osteology, and archaeology. Many of the studies have demonstrated that there were a diversity of medical practices and concepts throughout the Graeco-Roman world. In this chapter it is shown that the evidence for medical practices in the province of Britannia indicates there are likely to have been a combination of indigenous, Roman and, possibly, Gallic conceptions of the body and its care. Hence, through an examination of material culture, inscriptions, and some textual evidence from Vindolanda, it is argued that the term Romano-British medicine is more appropriate than Roman medicine as a means of noting the heterogeneity in healthcare found in the Roman Empire.
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Hamylton, Sarah, Pat Hutchings, and Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, eds. Coral Reefs of Australia. CSIRO Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9781486315499.
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Australia’s coral reefs stretch far and wide, covering 50 000 square kilometres from the Indian Ocean in the West to the Pacific Ocean in the East. They have been viewed as a bedrock of coastal livelihoods, as uncharted and perilous nautical hazards, as valuable natural resources, and as unique, natural wonders with secrets waiting to be unlocked. Australia’s coral reefs have sustained a global interest as places to visit, and as objects of study, science, protection and conservation.
Coral Reefs of Australia examines our evolving relationship with coral reefs, and explores their mystery and the fast pace at which they are now changing. Corals are feeling the dramatic impacts of global climate change, having undergone several devastating mass coral bleaching events, dramatic species range shifts and gradual ocean acidification.
This comprehensive and engaging book brings together the diverse views of Indigenous Australians, coral reef scientists, managers and politicians to reveal how we interact with coral reefs, focussing on Indigenous culture, coastal livelihoods, exploration, discovery, scientific research and climate change. It will inform and inspire readers to learn more about these intriguing natural phenomena and how we can protect coral reefs for the future.
Cultural sensitivity
Readers are warned that there may be words, descriptions and terms used in this book that are culturally sensitive, and which might not normally be used in certain public or community contexts. While this information may not reflect current understanding, it is provided by the author in a historical context.
This publication may also contain quotations, terms and annotations that reflect the historical attitude of the original author or that of the period in which the item was written, and may be considered inappropriate today.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are advised that this publication may contain the names and images of people who have passed away.
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Gareiss, Nicholas. An Buachaillín Bán. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199377329.003.0011.
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Helen O’Shea asserts that ‘Irish’ and ‘queer’ are mutually exclusive identifications in the discourse of Irish nationalism and Irish traditional arts. If indigenous Irish cultural practices are indeed devoid of queerness, how can queer dancers working within these forms make sense of their role as both cultural exponents and sexual and gender outsiders? Embodying alterity within idioms historically touted as the representation of essentialized Irishness, how do queer Irish step dancers negotiate their queerness through a dance form historically cast so close to the heteronormative heart of rural Ireland? This chapter queries the experience of the author to excavate nascent queerness within Irish traditional dance practice. Drawing upon his fifteen years of performance and ethnography with many of the luminaries of traditional Irish music and dance, the essay offers a queer reimagining of contemporary performance conventions of Irish step dance, revealing insights into the form’s ethnology and proposing new possibilities for Irish dance as a polysemic means of cultural and personal expression.
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Marshall, Kristin N., and Phillip S. Levin. When “sustainable” fishing isn’t. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808978.003.0017.
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This chapter highlights conflicts created by fishing at levels generally thought to be sustainable. Sustainable seafood has been defined as providing food today without affecting the ability of future generations to obtain food. But this straightforward definition belies the complexity of sustainability. Models suggest that even under low levels of fishing there can be large impacts on ecosystem attributes, and thus the small reductions from sustainable harvest levels that have been advocated as a win-win solution do not necessarily lead to ecosystem benefits. Second, a case study of herring fisheries and harvest by indigenous peoples in Haida Gwaii reveals that what is regarded to be a sustainable commercial herring harvest can degrade human wellbeing. A potential solution may be spatial management that creates trade-offs on finer spatial scales, and satisfies more ecological and cultural needs.