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Indigenous Identity (indigenous + identity)

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Selected Abstracts

Displayed Objects, Indigenous Identities, and Public Pedagogy

ANTHROPOLOGY & EDUCATION QUARTERLY, Issue 4 2006
Brenda Trofanenko
In this article, I describe how one group of student examines indigenous identity formation as dynamic and open to reinterpretation. Drawing on field observations and interviews with students in a 16-month ethnographic study, I examine how one group of students worked toward understanding how indigenous identity was determined by curatorial authority and historically defined museum practices. I argue that students can question the traditional pedagogical conceptions of indigenous culture that ought to be reconsidered within the public museum, and that working to historicize such conceptions makes more explicit student knowledge production of identity. [source]

The Rediscovered Self: Indigenous Identity and Cultural Justice by Ronald Niezen

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 2 2010
Jessica R. Cattelino
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Circuits of Culture: Media, Politics, and Indigenous Identity in the Andes by Jeff D. Himpele

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 4 2009
THOR ANDERSON
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Indigenous Media Gone Global: Strengthening Indigenous Identity On- and Offscreen at the First Nations/First Features Film Showcase

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 2 2006
KRISTIN DOWELL
For 12 days in May 2005, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), as well as several other screening venues in Washington, D.C., hosted a group of renowned indigenous filmmakers from around the globe for the groundbreaking film showcase, "First Nations/First Features: A Showcase of World Indigenous Film and Media." This film showcase highlighted the innovative ways in which indigenous filmmakers draw on indigenous storytelling practices to create cinematic visions that honor their long-standing indigenous cultural worlds while reaching local and world audiences. In this essay, I highlight the onscreen impact through an analysis of several films featured in First Nations/First Features, as well as the offscreen impact emphasizing how the indigenous directors used this opportunity to strengthen social networks and share experience in this industry, which may develop into future collaborative film projects. [source]

Identity as Work: Changing Job Opportunities and Indigenous Identity in the Transition to a Tourist Economy

ANTHROPOLOGY OF WORK REVIEW, Issue 2 2007
Karen Stocker
This article, based on ethnographic research carried out in the Chorotega indigenous reservation in northwestern Costa Rica between 1993 and 2007, traces the social and economic changes that have shifted the dominant trend from masking indigenous identity to embracing and promoting it. The growth of the tourism sector in areas near the reservation and the resulting participation by the Chorotega in heritage tourism have had repercussions on employment options for individuals on or from the reservation. [source]

Gender, Race, and the Regulation of Native Identity in Canada and the United States: An Overview

HYPATIA, Issue 2 2003
BONITA LAWRENCEArticle first published online: 9 JAN 200
The regulation of Native identity has been central to the colonization process in both Canada and the United States. Systems of classification and control enable settler governments to define who is "Indian," and control access to Native land. These regulatory systems have forcibly supplanted traditional Indigenous ways of identifying the self in relation to land and community, functioning discursively to naturalize colonial worldviews. Decolonization, then, must involve deconstructing and reshaping how we understand Indigenous identity. [source]

Mestizaje and Law Making in Indigenous Identity Formation in Northeastern Brazil: "After the Conflict Came the History"

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 4 2004
JAN HOFFMAN FRENCH
In this article, I explore issues of authenticity, legal discourse, and local requirements of belonging by considering the recent surge of indigenous recognitions in northeastern Brazil. I investigate how race and ethnicity are implicated in the recognition process in Brazil on the basis of an analysis of a successful struggle for indigenous identity and access to land by a group of mixed-race, visibly, African-descended rural workers. I propose that the debate over mestizaje (ethnoracial and cultural mixing) in the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America can be reconfigured and clarified by broadening it to include such Brazilian experiences. I argue that the interaction between two processes,law making and indigenous identity formation,is crucial to understanding how the notion of "mixed heritage" is both reinforced and disentangled. As such, this article is an illustration of the role of legal discourse in the constitution of indigenous identities and it introduces northeastern Brazil into the global discussion of law, indigenous rights, and claims to citizenship. [source]

"I Was There:" Competing Indigenous Imaginaries of the Past and the Future in Oaxaca's Sierra Mazateca

JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN & CARIBBEAN ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 1 2006
Ben FeinbergArticle first published online: 28 JUN 200
En este artículo, examino las diferentes formas por las cuales dos individuos Mazatecos representan la cultura, la autenticidad, y una conceptualización Mazateca de la historia durante sus interacciones con gente no Mazateca.Ambos adaptan estilos metaculturales diferentes para crear naraciones de autenticidad. Para el primero, la autenticidad es una cualidad compartida por individuos que sirven de mediadores entre grupos culturales diferentes y que se extiende a sus representaciones culturales; para el segundo, la autenticidad nace en la cultura reificada que sobrevive del pasado. Estos discursos diferentes se manifiestan en discusiones sobre los años sesenta en la Sierra mazateca,una época cuando miles de estrangeros asociados con la contracultura de esta década visitaron la región para experimentar con los hongos alucinogénicos. PALABRAS CLAVES: Oaxaca, Mazateca, identidad indígena, chamanismo, metacultura, turismo. KEYWORDS: Oaxaca, Mazateca, indigenous identity, shamanism, metaculture, tourism. [source]

Prehistory, Identity, and Archaeological Representation in Nordic Museums

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 1 2006
JANET E. LEVY
In this article, I examine the variable representation of Saami (Lapp) prehistory in several Nordic museums. The analysis is situated at the intersection of (1) the examination of the ideology of archaeological practice, (2) the discourse about creation of indigenous identity, and (3) the visual culture of museum exhibitions. I describe and analyze displays about archaeology and prehistory from seven museums in Sweden, Finland, and Norway. The presentation of Saami prehistory differs significantly between majority community museums and those run by Saami communities. These presentations reflect ideologies implicated in building indigenous, nationalist, and pannational identities as well as in establishing legitimacy of Saami claims to land and heritage. Representations of the past are inevitably political because they are about linking people, place, and legitimacy. Ambiguities in these uses of prehistory are discussed, as is the globalizing role of the European Union. [source]

Mestizaje and Law Making in Indigenous Identity Formation in Northeastern Brazil: "After the Conflict Came the History"

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 4 2004
JAN HOFFMAN FRENCH
In this article, I explore issues of authenticity, legal discourse, and local requirements of belonging by considering the recent surge of indigenous recognitions in northeastern Brazil. I investigate how race and ethnicity are implicated in the recognition process in Brazil on the basis of an analysis of a successful struggle for indigenous identity and access to land by a group of mixed-race, visibly, African-descended rural workers. I propose that the debate over mestizaje (ethnoracial and cultural mixing) in the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America can be reconfigured and clarified by broadening it to include such Brazilian experiences. I argue that the interaction between two processes,law making and indigenous identity formation,is crucial to understanding how the notion of "mixed heritage" is both reinforced and disentangled. As such, this article is an illustration of the role of legal discourse in the constitution of indigenous identities and it introduces northeastern Brazil into the global discussion of law, indigenous rights, and claims to citizenship. [source]

Shamans versus Pirates in the Amazonian Treasure Chest

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 4 2002
Beth A. Conklin
This article explores how the recent rise of shamans as political representatives in Brazil addresses tensions and contradictions associated with the internationalization of indigenous rights movements. Identity politics and transnational organizational alliances concerning issues of environmentalism and human rights have greatly expanded the political leverage and influence of indigenous activism. However, some transnational environmentalist discourses collide with Brazilian discourses of national sovereignty, and the 1990s witnessed a nationalist backlash against Indians, whom politicians, military leaders, and media commentators have frequently portrayed as pawns of foreign imperialists. Opponents of indigenous rights also seized on apparent contradictions between rhetoric and action to discredit indigenous claims to environmental resources. The analysis examines how the shift to redefine knowledge as the core of indigenous identity circumvents some of these liabilities by shifting the basis for indigenous rights claims from environmental practices to environmental knowledge. As shamans mobilize and speak out against the threat of biopiracy, they blunt the nationalist backlash, repositioning indigenous peoples as defenders of the national patrimony and solid citizens of the Brazilian nationstate. [Keywords: Brazil, indigenous peoples, identity politics, shamans, biopiracy] [source]

Displayed Objects, Indigenous Identities, and Public Pedagogy

ANTHROPOLOGY & EDUCATION QUARTERLY, Issue 4 2006
Brenda Trofanenko
In this article, I describe how one group of student examines indigenous identity formation as dynamic and open to reinterpretation. Drawing on field observations and interviews with students in a 16-month ethnographic study, I examine how one group of students worked toward understanding how indigenous identity was determined by curatorial authority and historically defined museum practices. I argue that students can question the traditional pedagogical conceptions of indigenous culture that ought to be reconsidered within the public museum, and that working to historicize such conceptions makes more explicit student knowledge production of identity. [source]

Identity as Work: Changing Job Opportunities and Indigenous Identity in the Transition to a Tourist Economy

ANTHROPOLOGY OF WORK REVIEW, Issue 2 2007
Karen Stocker
This article, based on ethnographic research carried out in the Chorotega indigenous reservation in northwestern Costa Rica between 1993 and 2007, traces the social and economic changes that have shifted the dominant trend from masking indigenous identity to embracing and promoting it. The growth of the tourism sector in areas near the reservation and the resulting participation by the Chorotega in heritage tourism have had repercussions on employment options for individuals on or from the reservation. [source]