1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History

Edited By Ann McGrath, Lynette Russell Copyright 2022
798 Pages 74 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

798 Pages 74 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

798 Pages 74 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History presents exciting new innovations in the dynamic field of Indigenous global history while also outlining ethical, political, and practical research. Indigenous histories are not merely concerned with the past but have resonances for the politics of the present and future, ranging across vast geographical distances and deep time periods.... Read more

Chapter 1 Introduction

Ann McGrath and Lynette Russell

Part I: History’s Outsiders

Chapter 2 European Uses of History

Henning Trüper

Chapter 3 Theoretical Frontiers

Ben Silverstein

Chapter 4 Indigenous Peoples in Asia: A Long History 

Robert Cribb

Chapter 5 World Conservation and Genocidal Frontiers: Global Environmentalism, Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Humanity in the Early Twentieth Century  

Fiona Paisley

Part II: Migrations and Mobilities

Chapter 6 Indigenous Global Histories and Modern Human Origins 

Martin Porr

Chapter 7 Singing to Ancestors: Respecting and Re-telling Stories Woven Through Ancient Ancestral Lands

Paulette Steeves

Chapter 8 The Case for Continuity of Human Occupation and Rock Art Production in the Kimberley, Australia

Peter Veth, Sam Harper, Kane Ditchfield, Sven Ouzman, and Balanggarra Aboriginal Corporation

Chapter 9 Voyagers from the Havai‘i Diaspora: Polynesian Mobility, 1760s–1850s  

Kate Fullagar

Chapter 10 Walking the Indigenous City: Colonial Encounters at the Heart of Empire

Coll Thrush

Part III: Colonial Encounters

Chapter 11 Treatied Space: North American Indigenous Treaties in Global Context 

Joy Porter

Chapter 12 Sámi Indigeneity in Nineteenth-Century Swedish and British Intellectual Debates 

Linda Andersson Burnett 

Chapter 13 Language, Translation, and Transformation in Indigenous Histories 

Laura Rademaker

Chapter 14 ‘The Case of Polly Indian’: Enslavement, Native Ancestry, and the Law in the British Caribbean

Brooke Newman

Chapter 15 Rethinking the Colonial Encounter in the Age of Trauma 

Taylor Spence

Part IV: Removals and Diasporas

Chapter 16 Sexual Removals: Indigenous Genders and Sexualities as Territory 

Manuela Picq

Chapter 17 Reimagining Home: Indian Removal, Native Storytelling, and the Search for Belonging  

Greg Smithers

Chapter 18 Because of Her We Can: Gender and Diaspora in Australian Exemption Policies 

Lucinda Aberdeen, Katherine Ellinghaus, Kella Robinson, and Judi Wickes

Chapter 19 Damage and Dispossession: Indigenous People and Nuclear Weapons on Bikini Atoll and the Pitjantjatjara Lands, 1946 to 1988 

Heather Goodall

Chapter 20 The Bones of Our Mother: Adivasi Dispossession in an Indian State 

Devleena Ghosh

Part V: Memory, Identities, and Narratives

Chapter 21 Indigenous Narratives, Separations, Denials and Memories: Moving Beyond Loss

Lynette Russell

Chapter 22 Remembering Removal: Indigenous Narratives of Colonial Collecting Practices in the Gulf of Papua (Papua New Guinea)

Chris Urwin

Chapter 23 Indigenous History and Identity in the Caribbean 

Barry Higman

Chapter 24 Subttsasa Biehtsevuomátjistema: Recalling the Memories and Stories from Our Little Pine Forest 

May-Britt Öhman

Chapter 25 Assisting Indigenous Resistance through Secularism: Legal Limits to Christianisation in Canada (1867–1939) 

Claude Gélinas

 

Part VI: Pathways Towards Future Indigenous Histories

Chapter 26 Transmission’s End? Cataclysm and Chronology in Indigenous Oral Tradition

Chris Ballard

Chapter 27 Archaeology, Hybrid Knowledge and Community Engagement in Africa: Thoughts on Decolonising Practice 

Paul Lane

Chapter 28 Indigenous Photography as Subject and Method for Global History 

Oliver Haag

Chapter 29 African Literature as Indigenous History in South Africa’s ‘Decolonise the Curriculum’ Movement 

Ashleigh Harris

Chapter 30 Haptic History in Southeast Asia – Archiving the Past in Bodies and Landscapes

Emilie Wellfelt

Chapter 31 The Uses of History in Greenland 

Claire McLisky and Kirstine Eiby Møller

Chapter 32 Yuraki – An Australian Aboriginal Perspective on Deep History 

John Maynard

Chapter 33 Deep History’s Digital Footprints  

Ann McGrath

Biography

Ann McGrath is the WK Hancock Distinguished Professor of History at the Australian National University, an ARC Laureate Fellow and Director of the Research Centre for Deep History.

Lynette Russell is an ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellow at Monash University’s Indigenous Studies Centre and Deputy Director of the ARC’s Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage