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Record Nr.

UNINA9910555235503321

Autore

Mallon Florencia E.

Titolo

Decolonizing native histories : collaboration, knowledge, and language in the Americas / / edited by Florencia E. Mallon ; selected essays translated by Gladys McCormick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, NC, : Duke University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-283-43119-X

9786613431196

0-8223-9485-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Collana

Narrating native histories

Altri autori (Persone)

MallonFlorencia E. <1951->

Disciplina

306.44/6097

306.44097

Soggetti

Language and languages - Political aspects

Language and culture - America

Indigenous peoples and mass media - America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Hawaiian nationhood, self-determination, and international law / J. Kehaulani Kauanui -- Issues of land and sovereignty : the uneasy relationship between Chile and Rapa Nui / Riet Delsing -- Quechua knowledge, orality, and writings : the newspaper CONOSUR ñawpaqman / Fernando Garcés V. -- Collaboration and historical writing : challenges for the indigenous-academic dialogue / Joanne Rappaport and Abelardo Ramos Pacho -- The Taller Tzotzil of Chiapas, Mexico : a native language publishing project, 1985-2002 / Jan Rus and Diane L. Rus -- Dangerous decolonizing : Indians and Blacks and the legacy of Jim Crow / Brian Klopotek -- Nationalist contradictions : pan-Mayanism, representations of the past, and the reproduction of inequalities in Guatemala / Edgar Esquit.

Sommario/riassunto

An interdisciplinary collection that addresses the racial and ethnic politics of knowledge production and indigenous activism in the Americas, this book analyzes the relationship of language to power and advocates for collaboration between community members, scholars, and activists that prioritize the right of Indigenous people to decide



how their knowledge is used.