Indigenous Peoples Books

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   Unveiling Man's Origins (Routledge Revivals): Ten Decades of Thought About Human Evolution

   By L. S. B. Leakey, Vanne Morris Goodall

   Originally published in 1969, the aim of this book is to tell the story of the major discoveries which have been made and the attitude of the world at large to these discoveries during the ten decades since Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859. For anyone interested in man's past...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-61128-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Ethnic Minorities in Modern China

   Edited by Colin Mackerras

   Ethnicity in general has become a topic of immense importance and interest in the world since the collapse of the ideological divide between liberal capitalism and communism and since the 2001 attacks in the US intensified the fractures resulting from religious fundamentalism bolstered by ethnic...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-57393-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Native American Writing

   Edited by A. Robert Lee

   If white settlers landing in the New World brought with them smallpox, oppression, and Christianity, they also conveyed the cultural practice of writing. Adopters of this technology from within Native America and First Nations Canada began to adapt their own vast resources of spoken tribal...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-58895-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. The Politics of Belonging in India: Becoming Adivasi

   Edited by Daniel Rycroft, Sangeeta Dasgupta

   This volume responds to the need for an inter-disciplinary re-assessment of Tribal studies in postcolonial India. The volume engages in this process by defining a new field of Adivasi studies. As such it prompts a close review of the political and sociological categories of tribal peoples and...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-60082-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Millennium and Charisma Among Pathans (Routledge Revivals): A Critical Essay in Social Anthropology

   By Akbar Ahmed

   First published in 1976, this Routledge Revivals reissue presents an analysis of the Swat Pathans, the people of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, who belong administratively to Pakistan despite being a fiercely independent group, with their own codes and ways of life. Akbar S. Ahmed,...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-61796-3 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Okubo Diary (Routledge Revivals): Portrait of a Japanese Valley

   By Brian Moeran

   First published in 1985, this Routledge Revival is a lively and colourful account of life in the Japanese countryside, as seen through the eyes of an anthropologist who did fieldwork there for four years. Part journal, part ethnographic observation, part social and moral commentary, this very...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-59005-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Modernity and Malaysia: Settling the Menraq Forest Nomads

   By Alberto Gomes

   Bringing together over thirty years of detailed ethnographic research on the Menraq of Malaysia, this fascinating book analyzes and documents the experience of development and modernization in tribal communities. Descendents of hunter-gatherers who have inhabited Southeast Asia for about 40,000...

   August 2010 | 978-0-415-59620-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. The Ecological Native: Indigenous Peoples' Movements and Eco-Governmentality in Columbia

   By Astrid Ulloa

   This text analyzes indigenous peoples' processes of identity construction as ecological natives. It opens space for reconstructing all the different networks, conditions of emergence, and implications (political, cultural, social and economic) of one specific event: the consolidation of the...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-88405-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Indigenous Knowledge, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology

   By Raymond Pierotti

   Indigenous ways of understanding and interacting with the natural world are characterized as Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), which derives from emphasizing relationships and connections among species. This book examines TEK and its strengths in relation to Western ecological knowledge and...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-87924-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Collective Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Identity-Based Movement of Plain Indigenous in Taiwan

    By Jolan Hsieh

    The focus of this book is on the PingPu peoples in Taiwan and their right to official recognition as "indigenous peoples" by the Taiwanese government. The result of centuries of colonization, indigenous tribes in Taiwan have faced severe cultural repression because of the government's refusal to...

    July 2010 | 978-0-415-88252-1 | Paperback (Routledge)