Description
This volume highlights and examines how Indigenous Peoples continue to inhabit the world in counter-modern ways. It illustrates how communalist practices and cooperative priorities of many Indigenous communities are simultaneously key to their cultural survival while being most vulnerable to post-colonial erasure. Chapters contributed by community collectives, elders, lawyers, scholars, multi-generational collaboratives, and others are brought together to highlight the communal and cooperative strategies that counter the modernizing tropes of capitalist, industrialist, and representational hegemonies. Furthermore, the authors of the book explicitly interrogate the roles of witness, collaborator, advocate, and community leader as they consider ethical relations in contexts of financialized global markets, ongoing land grabbing and displacement, epistemic violence, and post-colonial erasures.
Lucid and topical, the book will be indispensable for students and scholars of anthropology, modernity, capitalism, history, sociology, human rights, minority studies, Indigenous studies, Asian studies, and Latin American studies.
Table of Contents
Introduction PART I: Communalism as Ancestral Knowledge and Balance across Many Beings 1. Trig metawe: Restoring the tears of dispossession for küme mongen 2. The multiplication of the multiple, communalism and Indigenous Tensions in Brazil 3. Relating to the Forest: Possibilities and Limitations of Collaborative Research and Community Media Production 4. Intercultural Communalism: Intercultural and intergenerational work around medicinal plants in a village in southern Colombia PART II: Communalist Entanglements with Modernity 5. Autonomy, Land Stewardship, and Indigenous Emancipatory Praxis through Legislative Activism in Costa Rica and Multilateral Institutions 6. Akubadaura: Resistance and organization. The struggle of Colombian indigenous women for the conquest of their rights and the defense of their communities and territories 7. Countering Modernity through the Purko Maasai Olpul healing retreat 8. Who “Communitize” Whom? The Countercommunal Models of the Forager Nayaka and Modern India 9. Between conformity and nonconformity: challenges for weaving community life among the Nasa del Cauca Indigenous People, Colombia PART III: Contending with Scale: Communalism across Different Audience 10. Levels of Communalism in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Combatting Modernity with the Help of Indigenous Radio 11. Politics of Representations: Making Indigenous paintings for sale in Central Australia 12. Rights, Repatriation and Return: The Sámi 13. “Nation” v. “Rom”: Yolŋu articulations of communal identity in northeast Arnhem Land, Australia
