INDIGENEITY ON THE MOVE
INDIGENEITY ON THE MOVE
Varying Manifestations of a Contested Concept
Edited by Eva Gerharz Nasir Uddin Pradeep Chakkarath
First published in 2018 by
Berghahn Books
© 2018, 2020 Eva Gerharz, Nasir Uddin, and Pradeep Chakkarath
First paperback edition published in 2020
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Contents
Adam Kuper
Introduction Exploring Indigeneity: Introductory Remarks on a Contested Concept
Nasir Uddin, Eva Gerharz, and Pradeep Chakkarath
PART I. STRUGGLES OVER LAND AND RESOURCES
Chapter 1 On the Nature of Indigenous Land: Ownership, Access, and Farming in Upland Northeast India
Erik de Maaker
Ian G. Baird
PART II. BECOMING INDIGENOUS
Gabriele Herzog-Schröder
Eva Gerharz
Chapter 5 In Search of Self: Identity, Indigeneity, and Cultural Politics in Bangladesh
Nasir Uddin
PART III. INDIGENEITY AS A POLITICAL RESOURCE
Michaela Pelican
Olaf Kaltmeier
Gilberto Rescher
PART IV. INDIGENEITY AND THE STATE
Chapter 9 Intimate Antagonisms: Adivasis and the State in Contemporary India
Uday Chandra
Chapter 10 Indigeneity, Culture, and the State: Social Change and Legal Reforms in Latin America
Wolfgang Gabbert
Chapter 11 Fluid Indigeneities in the Indian Ocean: A Small History of the State and Its Other
Philipp Zehmisch
Postscriptum The Futures of Indigenous Medicine: Networks, Contexts, Freedom
William S. Sax
Illustrations
Figures
Figure 3.1. This shed hosts the school in Caño Bocón, where the people who formerly called themselves Hapokashitha settled in the late 1990s. The humble shelter is covered with aluminum, which was obtained from the mission post.
Figure 3.2. The school in Sheroana is located within the circle of the shapono in a small hut thatched with palm leaves under a tree. Next to the school is the lean-to roof where communal shamanic sessions take place nearly every day.
Tables
Table 6.1. Illustration of parallel and partly conflicting categories.
Table 6.2. Perspectives on primary entitlement to land on the basis of the categorizations in Table 6.1.
Maps
Map 3.1. The map shows the central part of the area inhabited by the Yanomami in 2012. It outlines the territory of the Yanomamï or the “central Yanomami” and depicts the locations of the selected Yanomami communities and the mission posts discussed in the text. There are many more Yanomami villages or shaponos in this region which are not shown here.
Preface