books about: indigenous     books:       Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands3 reviews Lindsay G. Robertson Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 Intrigue, Indians & History - Told like a Novel The story told in Conquest by Law could be the Enron scandal of the 19th Century...the irony is that it is all true and that you wouldn't have imagined it in your wildest dreams. We are used to a context in which the Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court of the land. It is implicit today that when the Supreme Court says what the law "is"...that is it, 'the final word'! However, ...             Indigenous Knowledges in Global Contexts: Multiple Readings of Our Worlds (Oise / Utp) University of Toronto Press, 2000 Indigenous knowledges are understood as the commonsense ideas and cultural knowledges of local peoples concerning the everyday realities of living. This definition refers to the epistemic saliency of cultural traditions, values, belief systems and world views that, in any indigenous society, are imparted to the younger generation by community elders. It is also refers to world views that are products of a profoundly direct experience of nature ...             Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future2 reviews Bear & Company, 2008 an inspiring service to humanity I was blown away again and again by the contents of this incredible compilation. I am inspired, awe'd by what these writings speak of and overwhelmingly grateful that this information has not been lost and is making it's way back because of the committment the Bioneers have made to humanity. This perspective is largely unacknowledged by certain factions and unknown by most. Bless all of these ...             Indigenous Social Work around the World (Contemporary Social Work Studies) John Coates and Michael Yellow Bird Ashgate, 2008 How can mainstream Western social work learn from and in turn help advance indigenous practice?This volume brings together prominent international scholars involved in both Western and indigenous social work across the globe - including James Midgley, Linda Briskman, Alean Al-Krenawi and John R. Graham - to discuss some of the most significant global trends and issues relating to indigenous and cross-cultural social work. The contributors ...             Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America University of Texas Press, 2003 "In summary, this is an excellent book that I would highly recommend. It is well written and very thought provoking, and is certainly going on the reading lists for at least two of my courses. Though the focus is on Latin America, I think that this would be an enlightening read for anyone interested in indigenous movements in other parts of the world." ? Social Anthropology "This book fills an important niche. Its focus on ...             Global Indigenous Media: Cultures, Poetics, and Politics1 review Duke University Press, 2008 Chapters and Contributors As one of the author/editors, I wanted to provide more info since Duke doesn't have the "Look Inside" feature. Sorry to appear self-serving, but Amazon wouldn't let me post without rating it--so my rating goes to the excellence of the contributors. If you're interested in how cultures around the world are mobilizing the media to serve their local cultural and political interests, you'll really ...             Indigenous Peoples, Ethnic Groups, and the State (2nd Edition) (Cultural Survival Studies in Ethnicity and ...2 reviews David Maybury-Lewis Allyn & Bacon, 2001 clear, informative, important work. Maybury-Lewis's newest work is incredibly clear and informative and offers non-anthroplogist and scholars alike a perceptive and important work             Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies Sage Publications, Inc, 2008 The Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies is the only handbook to make connections regarding many of the perspectives of the ?new? critical theorists and emerging indigenous methodologies. Built on the foundation of the landmark SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research , the Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies extends beyond the investigation of qualitative inquiry itself to explore the indigenous and ...             Contesting Citizenship in Latin America: The Rise of Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Challenge ... Deborah J. Yashar Cambridge University Press, 2005 Deborah Yashar analyzes the contemporary and uneven emergence of Latin American indigenous movements--addressing both why indigenous identities have become politically salient in the contemporary period and why they have translated into significant political organizations in some places and not others. She argues that ethnic politics can best be explained through a comparative historical approach that analyzes three factors: changing citizenship ...             The Politics of Ethnicity: Indigenous Peoples in Latin American States (David Rockefeller Center Series on ... David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 2003 The indigenous people of the hemisphere have resisted a five-hundred-year assault, fighting to maintain their cultural identities. During this time, authorities in the Americas have insisted that the toleration of indigenous societies and cultures would undermine their respective states. In recent years, however, the nations of the Americas have started to reverse themselves. They are altering their constitutions and proclaiming themselves ...             Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples7 reviews Linda Tuhiwai Smith Zed Books, 1999 Constructing Critical Indigenous Research Methodologies Looking at Western research practices from the ?underside? of a positivist paradigm deeply entrenched and diffused throughout public and private educational, governmental, and corporate tentacles, Linda Tuhiwai Smith is a Maori (New Zealand) intellectual presenting a counter-methodological narrative stemming from a collective indigenous historical cynicism and whose voice bespeaks the refusal to ...             Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination ...1 review University of Nebraska Press, 2005 Finally, an collection of Indigenous writings on sovereignty Evo Morales is elected the first Ingigenous president of Bolivia and the Indigenous people's movement of Mexico is on the march. Around the world activists and movement intellectuals have been making history by moving Indigenous peoples' struggles to the forefront of grass-roots politics. Accompanying these developments has been a lively and challenging discussion about Sovereignty in ...             Research as Resistance: Critical, Indigenous, and Anti-Oppressive Approaches Canadian Scholars Press, 2005 This book is a collection of original pieces by practitioners and researchers from diverse locations who place social justice at the very centre of research processes and outcomes. The editors, Leslie Brown (Faculty of Social Work, University of Victoria) and Susan Strega (Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba) and 13 contributors from research and teaching backgrounds at Canadian universities and within their communities, bring ...             Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 19191991 (Latin America Otherwise) Marisol de la Cadena Duke University Press, 2000 In the early twentieth century, Peruvian intellectuals, unlike their European counterparts, rejected biological categories of race as a basis for discrimination. But this did not eliminate social hierarchies; instead, it redefined racial categories as cultural differences, such as differences in education or manners. In Indigenous Mestizos Marisol de la Cadena traces the history of the notion of race from this turn-of-the-century definition ...             Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism (Contemporary Indigenous Issues)2 reviews Devon Abbott Mihesuah University of Nebraska Press, 2003 How Native American women can empower themselves Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism by Devon Abbott Mihesuah (Professor of Applied Indigenous Studies and History, North Arizona University) studies how Native American women have been perceived by non-Natives, scholars, and themselves. Professor Mihesuah sets forth guidelines as to how Native American women can empower themselves tribally, nationally, and ...             Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods Shawn Wilson Fernwood Publishing Co., Ltd., 2009             Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision University of Washington Press, 2000 At a recent conference in Saskatchewan, indigenous and non-indigenous delegates from North and South America, New Zealand, Australia, and Europe addressed cultural restoration and the issues and challenges confronting Aboriginal peoples as a result of decolonization. Their aim was to determine how Aboriginal cultural rights in postcolonial societies can be restored and how to find new approaches for protecting, healing, and restoring cultures ...             Paradigm Wars: Indigenous Peoples' Resistance to Globalization Sierra Club Books, 2006 Best-selling author and cultural critic Jerry Mander has challenged dominant cultural mind-sets in books such as Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television and In the Absence of the Sacred . In Paradigm Wars , he and coeditor Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, a leader of the global indigenous peoples movement and chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, have gathered an impressive international roster of contributors to ...             Indigenous Archaeology: American Indian Values and Scientific Practice: American Indian Values and Scientific ...1 review Joe Watkins AltaMira Press, 2001 For students of archaeology and Native American studies In writing Indigenous Archaeology: American Indian Values And Scientific Practice, Joe Watkins draws upon his experience and expertise as a federal archaeologist and a Choctaw to address Native American sensitivities and the modern practices of archaeology. Tracing the often controversial and confrontational relationship between these two opposing perspectives, Watkins articulately highlights ...              search for books anti-oppressive, approaches, archaeology, citizenship, contemporary, contentious, contestation, contesting, decolonization, decolonizing, determination, dispossessed, empowerment, globalization, indigenous, instructions, knowledges, methodologies, oppressive, possibility, postliberal, reclaiming, representation, resistance, rockefeller, scientific, self-determination, self-representation, sovereignty, sustainable books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: White Trash Etiquette: The Definitive Guide to Upscale Trailer Park Manners we recommend Constructing Critical Indigenous Research Methodologies leave a comment home  impressum - about us