Indigenous Peoples Books

New and Published Books

1. Tibetan Studies in Comparative Perspective

   Edited by Chih-yu Shih, Yu-Wen Chen

   Politics, history, and religion have long lent Tibet a glamorous air, particularly in the West. But Tibet can be understood in an astonishingly wide variety of other ways, including linguistic, ecological, environmental and climatological, geographical, geological, economic, biologic, sociologic,...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
2. Pukhtun Economy and Society (Routledge Revivals)

   Traditional Structure and Economic Development in a Tribal Society

   By Akbar Ahmed

   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 November 21st 2012 by Routledge
3. Adolescent Identity

   Evolutionary, Cultural and Developmental Perspectives

   Edited by Bonnie L. Hewlett

   Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

   As our world becomes increasingly permeable, and as human populations are rapidly converging and transitioning within a global interconnectedness, it is vital that we look to, and learn from, those most adept at the adaptation, creation, and contesting of culture: adolescents. This text is designed...

   Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge
4. Between Indigenous and Settler Governance

   Edited by Lisa Ford, Tim Rowse

   Between Indigenous and Settler Governance addresses the history, current development and future of Indigenous self-governance in four settler-colonial nations: Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. Bringing together emerging scholars and leaders in the field of indigenous law and...

   Published October 25th 2012 by Routledge
5. Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Policy and Practice

   Decolonizing Community Contexts

   Edited by Jennifer Lavia, Michele Moore

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   This book provides a space in which struggles for indigenous knowledge within communities are articulated, valued, heard, and responded to. The volume takes change as its focus, yet acknowledges that the origins and significance of change are frequently found to be unsettling. Contributors explore...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Battle of the Greasy Grass/Little Bighorn

   Custer's Last Stand in Memory, History, and Popular Culture

   By Debra Buchholtz

   Series: Critical Moments in American History

   In June of 1876, the U.S. government’s plan to pressure the Lakota and Cheyenne people onto reservations came to a dramatic and violent end with a battle that would become enshrined in American memory. In the eyes of many Americans at the time, the Battle of Little Bighorn represented a symbolic...

   Published July 19th 2012 by Routledge
7. Indigenous Nations and Modern States

   The Political Emergence of Nations Challenging State Power

   By Rudolph C. Ryser

   Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

   Indigenous peoples throughout the world tenaciously defend their lands, cultures, and their lives with resilience and determination. They have done so generation after generation. These are peoples who make up bedrock nations throughout the world in whose territories the United Nations says 80...

   Published June 10th 2012 by Routledge
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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