Indigenous Peoples Books

New and Published Books

1. Indigenous Knowledge, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology

   By Raymond Pierotti

   Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

   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...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
2. Anthropologists, Indigenous Scholars and the Research Endeavour

   Seeking Bridges Towards Mutual Respect

   Edited by Joy Hendry, Laara Fitznor

   Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

   This collection offers the fruits of a stimulating workshop that sought to bridge the fraught relationship which sometimes continues between anthropologists and indigenous/native/aboriginal scholars, despite areas of overlapping interest. Participants from around the world share...

   Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge
3. 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,...

   Published March 1st 2012 by Routledge
4. Subalternity and Difference

   Investigations from the North and the South

   Edited by Gyanendra Pandey

   Series: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

   Focusing on the idea of difference as a marker of subalternity, this book looks at the ways in which ordinary citizens have sought to present and identify themselves in ways that defy the conventional categorisations of governments and historical experience. Inspired particularly by questions...

   Published January 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Amazonian Geographies

   Emerging Identities and Landscapes

   Edited by Jacqueline Vadjunec, Marianne Schmink

   Amazonia exists in our imagination as well as on the ground. It is a mysterious and powerful construct in our psyches yet shares multiple (trans)national borders and diverse ecological and cultural landscapes. It is often presented as a seemingly homogeneous place: a lush tropical jungle teeming...

   Published January 5th 2012 by Routledge
6. 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...

   Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge
7. Cultural Studies of Transnationalism

   Edited by Handel Wright, Meaghan Morris

   This book asks what ‘transnationalism’ might mean for Cultural Studies as an intellectual project shaped in vastly differing circumstances across the world. With contributions from scholars with experience of cultural life and the work of education in various regions, countries and locales - from...

   Published September 29th 2011 by Routledge
8. Pukhtun Economy and Society (Routledge Revivals)

   Traditional Structure and Economic Development in a Tribal Society

   By Akbar Ahmed

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1980, this groundbreaking Routledge Revival is a reissue of an original and authentic anthropological account of Pukhtun society by Professor Akbar Ahmed. Combining extensive fieldwork data collected among the Mohmand tribe in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan with...

   Published July 27th 2011 by Routledge
9. 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...

   Published July 20th 2011 by Routledge
10. Indigeneity in the Courtroom

    Law, Culture, and the Production of Difference in North American Courts

    By Jennifer A. Hamilton

    Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

    The central question of this book is when and how does indigeneity in its various iterations – cultural, social, political, economic, even genetic – matter in a legal sense? Indigeneity in the Courtroom focuses on the legal deployment of indigenous difference in US and Canadian courts in the late&...

    Published May 15th 2011 by Routledge