Foragers: The Chenchus
ISBN: 9788175110915 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Until few thousand years ago, virtually all humanity lived as hunters and gatherers. The same foragers may hold the key to some of the central questions about the human condition-social life, politics, economy and gender-about the possibility of living with nature, without destroying it.
The intention behind this book is to make people understand how the Chenchu community has been constructed, developed and survived with their intelligence designs for thousands of years while protecting the ecology of their habitat. This research is aimed at studying and documenting the epistemological... Until few thousand years ago, virtually all humanity lived as hunters and gatherers. The same foragers may hold the key to some of the central questio...
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Iskwewak Kah' Ki Yaw Ni Wahkomakanak, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780889615762 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now in its second edition, this groundbreaking work of literary and cultural criticism analyses representations of Indigenous women in Canadian literature. By deconstructing stereotypical images of the ""Indian princess"" and ""easy squaw"", Janice Acoose calls attention to the racist and sexist depictions of Indigenous women in popular literature.
Now in its second edition, this groundbreaking work of literary and cultural criticism analyses representations of Indigenous women in Canadian litera...
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277,37 zł |
Indigenous Peoples and Colonialism: Global Perspectives
ISBN: 9780745672526 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Indigenous peoples have gained increasing international visibility in their fight against longstanding colonial occupation by nation-states. Although living in different locations around the world and practising highly varied ways of life, indigenous peoples nonetheless are affected by similar patterns of colonial dispossession and violence. In defending their collective rights to self-determination, culture, lands and resources, their resistance and creativity offer a pause for critical reflection on the importance of maintaining indigenous distinctiveness against the homogenizing forces... Indigenous peoples have gained increasing international visibility in their fight against longstanding colonial occupation by nation-states. Althou... |
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Indigenous Peoples and Colonialism: Global Perspectives
ISBN: 9780745672519 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Indigenous peoples have gained increasing international visibility in their fight against longstanding colonial occupation by nation-states. Although living in different locations around the world and practising highly varied ways of life, indigenous peoples nonetheless are affected by similar patterns of colonial dispossession and violence. In defending their collective rights to self-determination, culture, lands and resources, their resistance and creativity offer a pause for critical reflection on the importance of maintaining indigenous distinctiveness against the homogenizing forces... Indigenous peoples have gained increasing international visibility in their fight against longstanding colonial occupation by nation-states. Althou... |
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Oaxaca Stories in Cloth
ISBN: 9780983886082 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Oaxaca Stories in Cloth includes more than 175 sensitive, intimate, full-color portraits of traditional people of the Oaxacan hinterlands who continue to wrap themselves in the clothing that expresses their ancient, living culture. Eric Mindling captures this vanishing world with artistry and respect, and just in the nick of time. This book offers a window into a vanishing culture where few people have the opportunity to go.
Oaxaca Stories in Cloth includes more than 175 sensitive, intimate, full-color portraits of traditional people of the Oaxacan hinterlands who c...
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MIA MIA Aboriginal Community Development: Fostering Cultural Security
ISBN: 9781107414471 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Until recently, Aboriginal people have been subjected to mainly top-down development, which has proven damaging to communities. Mia Mia Aboriginal Community Development offers an alternative to such approaches, promoting cultural security in order to empower Aboriginal people to strengthen their own communities. The authors take a multidisciplinary approach to the topics of Aboriginal community development, Aboriginal history, cultural security and community studies. This book includes chapters examining historical and contemporary Aboriginal conceptions of community development, and the...
Until recently, Aboriginal people have been subjected to mainly top-down development, which has proven damaging to communities. Mia Mia Aboriginal Com...
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243,74 zł |
Indigenous Homelessness: Perspectives from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
ISBN: 9780887558269 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Being homeless in one s homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies. The construction of Commonwealth nation-states from colonial settler societies depended on the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their lands. The legacy of that dispossession and related attempts at assimilation that disrupted Indigenous practices, languages, and cultures including patterns of housing and land use can be seen today in the disproportionate number of Indigenous people affected by homelessness in both rural and urban settings.
Essays in this collection explore the... Being homeless in one s homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies. The construction of Commonwealth nation-states ...
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Holding Yawulyu: White Culture and Black Women's Law
ISBN: 9781742199795 / Angielski / Miękka / 425 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For two years, Zohl de Ishtar lived in a one-room tin shed with the women Elders of Balgo. As their Culture Woman, Zohl assisted the Elders in establishing and coordinating the Kapululangu Women s Law and Culture Centre. Holding Yawulyu: White Culture and Black Women's Law tells the amazing story of Zohl s journey as it documents White culture s impact on Indigenous Women s Law. Seventeen years later, Zohl remains at Balgo and provides a new Preface to this edition. Holding Yawulyu is an investigation into the inter-cultural relationship of White and Indigenous societies through...
For two years, Zohl de Ishtar lived in a one-room tin shed with the women Elders of Balgo. As their Culture Woman, Zohl assisted the Elders in establi...
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The Imbalance of Power: Leadership, Masculinity and Wealth in the Amazon
ISBN: 9781785333095 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Amerindian societies have an iconic status in classical political thought. For Montaigne, Hobbes, Locke, Hume and Rousseau, the native American 'state of nature' operates as a foil for the European polity. Challenging this tradition, The Imbalance of Power demonstrates ethnographically that the Carib speaking indigenous societies of the Guiana region of Amazonia do not fit conventional characterizations of 'simple' political units with 'egalitarian' political ideologies and 'harmonious' relationships with nature. Marc Brightman builds a persuasive and original theory of Amerindian... Amerindian societies have an iconic status in classical political thought. For Montaigne, Hobbes, Locke, Hume and Rousseau, the native American 'st... |
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Pintail Foundation: Aiga Series 2
ISBN: 9781519680068 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wherever Samoans may pursue endeavors in this world, they will always remember the tides and aura of their beginning. From cities, skyscrapers and many countries afar, home remains unforgotten to Samoan. In the Pasifika circle and over yonder, there's a Samoan proverb that the Samoan people are well-versed in that goes, "E lele le toloa ae ma'au I le vai." No matter where a gray duck flies, it will always return to its wetlands. Home.
Wherever Samoans may pursue endeavors in this world, they will always remember the tides and aura of their beginning. From cities, skyscrapers and man...
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Adjusting the Lens: Community and Collaborative Video in Mexico
ISBN: 9780822964469 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Adjusting the Lens offers a detailed analysis of contemporary, independent, indigenous-language audiovisual production in Mexico and in Mexican migrant communities in the United States. The contributors relate the styles and forms of collaborative and community media production to socially critical, transformative, resistant, and constitutive processes off-screen, thereby exploring the political within the context of the media. The chapters show how diasporic media makers map novel interpretations of image and sound into existing audiovisual discourses to communicate social and...
Adjusting the Lens offers a detailed analysis of contemporary, independent, indigenous-language audiovisual production in Mexico and in Mexican...
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Global Indigeneities and the Environment
ISBN: 9783038422402 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Global Indigeneities and the Environment --covering fields from indigenous studies, anthropology, communications, ethnoecology, ethnomusicology, geography, global studies, history, and literature --gives new understandings of the concept of global indigeneities and showcases some of the most promising current work in the field that relates this concept to the environment. Global Indigeneities and the Environment --covering fields from indigenous studies, anthropology, communications, ethnoecology, ethnomusicology, ge... |
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Indigenous Children Growing Up Strong: A Longitudinal Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Families
ISBN: 9781137534347 / Angielski / Twarda / 335 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited collection of thirteen original research chapters, authored by leading Australian Aboriginal scholars, uses data from the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC) to explore how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are growing up in contemporary Australia. The authors provide an overview of the study, its methodological and ethical framework, alongside the cultural, social, educational and family dynamics of Indigenous children's lives. The policy ramifications of the research results are addressed in each chapter as well as critically summarised in the final... This edited collection of thirteen original research chapters, authored by leading Australian Aboriginal scholars, uses data from the Longitudinal ... |
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Words, Wounds, Chasms: Native American Health Care Encounters
ISBN: 9781539617860 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nancy Lande highlights how powers of Western colonial privilege, social status, and use of Standard English often control communications in what can be life and death situations for Native Americans at health care facilities on Montana reserva- tions. By exploring verbal and nonverbal sociolinguistic disparities and cultural differences through personal narratives, the objectifying discourse of Western biomedicine often devalues Native American patients. It is critical to note that even the best efforts of doctor-patient communications are most often ineffective in marginalized settings such...
Nancy Lande highlights how powers of Western colonial privilege, social status, and use of Standard English often control communications in what can b...
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Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
ISBN: 9780822363392 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Critically Sovereign traces the ways in which gender is inextricably a part of Indigenous politics and U.S. and Canadian imperialism and colonialism. The contributors show how gender, sexuality, and feminism work as co-productive forces of Native American and Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination, and epistemology. Several essays use a range of literary and legal texts to analyze the production of colonial space, the biopolitics of "Indianness," and the collisions and collusions between queer theory and colonialism within Indigenous studies. Others address the U.S. government's...
Critically Sovereign traces the ways in which gender is inextricably a part of Indigenous politics and U.S. and Canadian imperialism and coloni...
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Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
ISBN: 9780822363651 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Critically Sovereign traces the ways in which gender is inextricably a part of Indigenous politics and U.S. and Canadian imperialism and colonialism. The contributors show how gender, sexuality, and feminism work as co-productive forces of Native American and Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination, and epistemology. Several essays use a range of literary and legal texts to analyze the production of colonial space, the biopolitics of "Indianness," and the collisions and collusions between queer theory and colonialism within Indigenous studies. Others address the U.S. government's...
Critically Sovereign traces the ways in which gender is inextricably a part of Indigenous politics and U.S. and Canadian imperialism and coloni...
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Alaska Edge Island: Yupiks of St Lawrence Island and Siberia
ISBN: 9781544107530 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reviews 1920 notes and recent scholarly works about Gambell and St Lawrence Island in Bering Strait.
Reviews 1920 notes and recent scholarly works about Gambell and St Lawrence Island in Bering Strait.
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The Medicalisation of Incest and Abuse: Biomedical and Indigenous Perceptions in Rural Bolivia
ISBN: 9781138628144 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Visioning a Mi'kmaw Humanities: Indigenizing the Academy
ISBN: 9781772060577 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Visioning a M'kmaw Humanities urges an agenda of restoration within a multi-disciplinary context for human dignity and the collective dignity of Mi'kmaw peoples. It is about generating a vision of society and education where knowledge systems and languages are reinforced, not diluted, where they can respectfully gather together without resembling each other, and where peoples can participate in the cultural life of a society, education and their community. It aspires to bring new perspectives to our living in relation with each other and with our place, giving new sensibilities to... Visioning a M'kmaw Humanities urges an agenda of restoration within a multi-disciplinary context for human dignity and the collective dignit... |
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Travellers Through Empire: Indigenous Voyages from Early Canada: Volume 91
ISBN: 9780773551343 / Angielski / Twarda / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the late eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century, an unprecedented number of Indigenous people - especially Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabeg, and Cree - travelled to Britain and other parts of the world. Who were these transatlantic travellers, where were they going, and what were they hoping to find? Travellers through Empire unearths the stories of Indigenous peoples including Mississauga Methodist missionary and Ojibwa chief Reverend Peter Jones, the Scots-Cherokee officer and interpreter John Norton, Catherine Sutton, a Mississauga woman who advocated for her people with...
In the late eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century, an unprecedented number of Indigenous people - especially Haudenosaunee, Anishin...
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