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Record Nr.

UNINA9910647295803321

Titolo

Indigenous textual cultures : reading and writing in the age of global empire / / Tony Ballantyne, Lachy Paterson and Angela Wanhalla, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2020

ISBN

1-4780-9318-8

1-4780-0976-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

371.829

Soggetti

Literacy - Social aspects

Indigenous peoples - Education

Indigenous peoples - Communication

Indigenous peoples - Books and reading

Indigenous peoples - Colonization

Colonization - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Indigenous textual cultures, the politics of difference, and the dynamism of practice / Tony Ballantyne and Lachy Paterson -- Ka Waihona Palapala Manaleo : research in a time of plenty. Colonialism and the Hawaiian Language Archives / Noelani Arista -- Kanak writings and written tradition in the Archive of New Caledonia's "1917" War / Alban Bensa and Adrian Muckle -- Māori literacy practices in colonial New Zealand / Lachy Paterson -- "Don't destroy the writing" : time- and space-based communication and the colonial strategy of mimicry in nineteenth-century Salish-missionary relations on Canada's Pacific Coast / Keith Thor Carlson -- Talking traditions : orality, ecology, and spirituality in Mangaia's Textual cultures / Michael P.J. Reilly -- Polynesian family manuscripts (Puta Tupuna) from the Society and Austral Islands : interior history, formal logic, and social uses / Bruno Saura -- Print media, the Swahili language, and textual cultures in twentieth century Tanzania, c.1923-1939 / Emma Hunter -- Going off script : Aboriginal rejection and repurposing of English literacies /



Laura Rademaker -- "Read it, don't smoke it"! Developing and maintaining literacy in Papua New Guinea / Evelyn Ellerman -- Colonial copyright, customs, and indigenous textualities : literary authority and textual citzenship / Isabel Hofmeyr -- He Pukapuka Tataku i ngā Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui : reading Te Rauparaha through time / Arini Loader -- Writing and beyond in indigenous North America : The Occom network / Ivy Schweitzer.

Sommario/riassunto

"The contributors to Indigenous Textual Cultures examined the ways in which indigenous peoples created textual cultures to navigate, shape, and contest empire, colonialism, and modernity."--