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Decolonizing Native Histories: Collaboration, Knowledge, and Language in the Americas

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Description for Decolonizing Native Histories: Collaboration, Knowledge, and Language in the Americas paperback. A collection that addresses the racial and ethnic politics of knowledge production and indigenous activism in the Americas. It analyzes the relationship of language to power and advocates for collaboration between community members, scholars, and activists that prioritize the right of Native people to decide how their knowledge is used. Translator(s): McCormick, Gladys. Series: Narrating Native Histories. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFC; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
Decolonizing Native Histories is an interdisciplinary collection that grapples with the racial and ethnic politics of knowledge production and indigenous activism in the Americas. It analyzes the relationship of language to power and empowerment, and advocates for collaborations between community members, scholars, and activists that prioritize the rights of Native peoples to decide how their knowledge is used. The contributors—academics and activists, indigenous and nonindigenous, from disciplines including history, anthropology, linguistics, and political science—explore the challenges of decolonization.

These wide-ranging case studies consider how language, the law, and the archive have historically served as instruments of colonialism and how they ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Narrating Native Histories
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822351528
SKU
V9780822351528
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99-1

About Florencia E. Mallon
Florencia E. Mallon is the Julieta Kirkwood Professor of History and Latin American Studies and Chair of the History Department at the University of Wisconsin. She is the author of numerous books, including Courage Tastes of Blood: The Mapuche Indigenous Community of Nicolás Ailío and the Chilean State, 1906–2000 and the editor and translator of Rosa Isolde Reuque Paillalef’s ... Read more

Reviews for Decolonizing Native Histories: Collaboration, Knowledge, and Language in the Americas
"Decolonizing Native Histories is a stunning collection of essays from places and authors not often seen in each others' company: they range from Bolivia to Rapa Nui, from Louisiana to Hawai'i. To read of the predicaments and possibilities of a Quechua-language newspaper, racism in a Native American community, and indigenous political resurgence in Rapa Nui in the same volume presents ... Read more

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