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Indigenous Knowledge and Perspectives
Indigenous knowledge, once dismissed as mere folklore, is now widely recognized as an essential dimension of global environmental knowledge....
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Modern Western Astrology as Indigenous Thought and Practice
In recent decades there has been increasing concern with the concept of indigeneity, Indigenous thought and practice, and indigenous religion....
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Adivasi’s of India as Indigenous People in Postcolonial World
Today, it is a well-accepted fact that the Indigenous people have been exploited and were subdued for many centuries across the globe. They have...
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History as Legitimacy
Historical narratives are interwoven in all categories of secular claims to territory. Nevertheless, “history” merits separate attention since it has...
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Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Medicine in Kenya
The approach in this chapter will be to first look at political indigenous knowledge systems where all Kenya communities had political structures...
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Between Neighbors and Strangers: Representations of the Indigenous People of America and Construction of Jewish Identity in Early Modern Western Europe
In a time when theological and scientific concepts of the New World were molded, European Jews, like their fellow Christians, were exposed to...
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Conferencing Indigenous Education
The final chapter of Part III investigates the debates about indigenous education taking place at the First and Second Inter-American Indigenista...
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Weaving the Indigenous Past into the Present
Chapter 5 explores one of the scholarly debates that caused some controversy at the First Pan-American...
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Missionary Women, Leprosy and Indigenous Australians, 1936–1986
This book focuses on twentieth-century Australian leprosaria to explore the lives of indigenous patients and the Catholic women missionaries who...
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History of the Earth Sciences from the South
The history of the earth sciences has predominantly revolved around the accumulation of knowledge within north Atlantic institutions and networks....
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Struggling Through Speech in the Midst of Grief: A Non-interview and the Indigenous Xakriabá Cosmopolitics
This chapter addresses an encounter in the context of a research study with Xakriabá indigenous people, which resulted in a non-interview. Instead,...
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The Making of Interwar Leprosy Policy for Indigenous Australians
Between 1923 and 1925, tropical medicine specialist, Cecil Cook, conducted a field survey of leprosy in Australia. The disease, once largely confined...
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A Persistent Pursuit of Schooling: Indigenous Led Education Projects
Chapter 10 concentrates on indigenous-driven education initiatives in Peru and Chile. Capitalising on...
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Ideas of Indigenous Resilience through Triangulated Model: Ecological Society Experiences of the United States of America and India
The present study in the book chapter discusses about emerging thoughts to develop a framework for a discourse on response and resilience of...
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Indigenous Petitioning in the Early Modern British and Spanish New World
The Spanish and British monarchies were the two most powerful European powers to claim sovereignty over large swaths of the New World. It is...
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Pioneering Japanese Feminist History
Researching the duolocal and matrilocal residence patterns that were highly visible in early Japanese poetry and prose, Takamure analyzed the...
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Indigenous Citizens and Black Republicans: Continuities and Evolutions of Subalterns’ Political Visions and Repertoires in Post-independence Colombia and Mexico
This essay focuses on how Indigenous peoples in Colombia and Mexico sought to create a distinct politics, in which they could protect their colonial...
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The Multispecies World of Oil Palm: Indigenous Marind Perspectives on Plantation Ecologies in West Papua
Drawing from long-term ethnographic fieldwork in West Papua, this chapter examines how Indigenous Marind communities conceptualize interspecies...
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Colonial Violence in German and English History Textbooks
This chapter compares ten recent German and English textbook representations of colonialism with the objective to better understand the postcolonial...
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Kalasha People in Pakistan: A Mountain Indigenous Tribe’s Struggles to Protect Identity, Culture, Ancestral Lands, and Survival
Kalasha are a group of Indigenous people located in the Hindukush mountains region in north-west (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) Pakistan. Currently, the...