Full Description
This engaging collection of essays discusses the complexities of "being" indigenous in public spaces. Laura R. Graham and H. Glenn Penny bring together a set of highly recognized junior and senior scholars, including indigenous scholars, from a variety of fields to provoke critical thinking about the many ways in which individuals and social groups construct and display unique identities around the world. The case studies in Performing Indigeneity underscore the social, historical, and immediate contextual factors at play when indigenous people make decisions about when, how, why, and who can "be" indigenous in public spaces.
Performing Indigeneity invites readers to consider how groups and individuals think about performance and display and focuses attention on the ways that public spheres, both indigenous and nonindigenous ones, have received these performances. The essays demonstrate that performance and display are essential to the creation and persistence of indigeneity, while also presenting the conundrum that in many cases "indigeneity" excludes some of the voices or identities that the category purports to represent.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Performing Indigeneity: Emergent Identity, Self-Determination, and Sovereignty
Laura R. Graham and H. Glenn Penny
2. Living Traditions: A Manifesto for Critical Indigeneity
Bernard Perley
3. Culture Claims: Being Maasai at the United Nations
Dorothy L. Hodgson
4. A White Face for the Cofán Nation? Randy Borman and the Ambivalence of Indigeneity
Michael L. Cepek
5. Performed Alliances and Performative Identities: Tupinamba in the Kingdom of France
Beatriz Perrone-Moisés
6. Rethinking Sami Agency during Living Exhibitions: From the Age of Empire to the Postwar World
Cathrine Baglo
7. Not Playing Indian: Surrogate Indigeneity and the German Hobbyist Scene
H. Glenn Penny
8. The Return of Kū? Re-membering Hawaiian Masculinity, Warriorhood, and Nation
Ty P. Kāwika Tengan
9. Bone-Deep Indigeneity: Theorizing Hawaiian Care for the State and Its Broken Apparatuses
Greg Johnson
10. Haka: Colonized Physicality, Body-Logic, and Embodied Sovereignty
Brendan Hokowhitu
11. Genders of Xavante Ethnographic Spectacle: Cultural Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Brazil
Laura R. Graham
12. Showing Too Much or Too Little: Predicaments of Painting Indigenous Presence in Central Australia
Fred Myers
13. Cities: Indigeneity and Belonging
Mark K. Watson
Contributors
Index
