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

• Autore: Mallon Florencia E.
• Pubblicazione: Durham, NC, : Duke University Press, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (274 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.44/6097; 306.44097
• Soggetto topico: Language and languages - Political aspects; Language and culture - America; Indigenous peoples and mass media - America
• Altri autori: MallonFlorencia E. <1951->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Decolonizing native histories
• ISBN: 1-283-43119-X; 9786613431196; 0-8223-9485-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910555235503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Narrating native histories.