Indigenous Societies in the Post-colonial World : Responses and Resilience Through Global Perspectives Paperback / softback
Edited by Bina Sengar, A. Mia Elise Adjoumani
Paperback / softback
Description
This edited book provides perceptions on “indigeneity” through a global perspective.
Emphasizing the contemporary and postcolonial debates on indigenous, it delves into diversity and dissonance within indigenous concepts.
Through its chapters based on theoretical and empirical studies from Asian, African, and American perceptions of indigenous societies, it brings out complexity, resilience, and response of “indigenous” in the post-colonial global society.
It especially looks at how these societies manage to move forward by going beyond the stigma of the colonial past. The chapters in the book are divided into three sections where they discuss indigenous cultures through interdisciplinary perspectives.
The narrative approach of historical concepts and contemporary indigenous challenges within the book include anthropological, cultural, ecological, historical, literary, and legal studies.
The contributions in the collection come from widely respected international scholars whoare engaged in indigeneity and postcolonial questions.
It allows the reader to (re)discover the theories and resilience of the indigenous societies that are historically marked and are reshaping the histories and contemporary narratives in the world.
This book is of particular interest to scholars, students, policymakers, and people curious about the histories and the dynamic progress of the indigenous and indigenous societies of Africa, the Americas, and Asia.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:313 pages, 35 Illustrations, color; 6 Illustrations, black and white; XXV, 313 p. 41 illus., 35 illu
- Publisher:Springer Verlag, Singapore
- Publication Date:09/03/2024
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- ISBN:9789811987243
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:313 pages, 35 Illustrations, color; 6 Illustrations, black and white; XXV, 313 p. 41 illus., 35 illu
- Publisher:Springer Verlag, Singapore
- Publication Date:09/03/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9789811987243
