Customizing Indigeneity

Customizing Indigeneity
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 360
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ISBN-10 : 9780804771283
ISBN-13 : 0804771286
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Book Synopsis Customizing Indigeneity by : Shane Greene

Download or read book Customizing Indigeneity written by Shane Greene and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-28 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do vision quests, river locations, and warriors relate to indigenous activism? For the Aguaruna, an ethnic group at the forefront of Peru's Amazonian Movement, incorporating practices and values they define as customary allows them to shape their own experience as modern indigenous subjects. As Shane Greene reveals, this customization centers on the complex articulation of meaningful social practices, cultural logics, and the political economy of specialized production and consumption. Following decades of engagement with and resistance to state-mandated missionary education, land-titling, and international advocacy networks, the Aguaruna have faced numerous constraints in pursuit of their own political projects. Based on first-hand fieldwork, Customizing Indigeneity provides a new theoretical language for the politics of indigeneity. Documenting the dynamic between historical constraints and cultural creativity, this work provides a fresh perspective on indigenous people's agency within evolving structures of inequality, while simultaneously challenging common assumptions about scholarly engagement with marginalized populations.


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