Sources and methods in indigenous studies

Andersen, Chris, 1973- (editor.). O'Brien, Jean M., (editor.).

Summary: "A synthesis of changes and innovations in methodologies in indigenous studies, focusing on sources over a broad chronological spread. Written by an international team of experts from across a range disciplines, this collection offers insight into the methodological approaches contributors take to research, and how methods have evolved in recent years. The book has a two part structure that looks, firstly, at the theoretical and disciplinary shifting of Indigenous Studies within history, literature, anthropology and the social sciences. Chapters in this section show that, while engaging with other disciplines, Indigenous Studies has forged its own intellectual path by borrowing and innovating from other fields. In part two, the book examines different areas with which sources for indigenous history have been engaged, including the importance of family in scholarly methodologies, gender, feminism and sexuality in Indigenous Studies, and various elements of expressive culture such as material culture, literature and museums."--Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781138823600
ISBN: 1138823600
ISBN: 9781138823617
ISBN: 1138823619
ISBN: 9781315528854
Physical Description: print
xiv, 314 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: London ; Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Historical sources and methods in indigenous studies : touching on the past, looking to the future / Jean M. O'Brien -- Literary reflections on indigenous literary nationalism : on home grounds, singing hogs, and cranky critics / Daniel Heath Justice -- History, anthropology, indigenous studies / Pauline Turner Strong -- Reclaiming the statistical "native" : quantitative historical research beyond the pale / Chris Andersen and Tahu Kukutai -- Recovering, restorying, and returning nahua writing in Mexico / Kelly McDonough -- Mind, heart, hands : thinking, feeling, and doing in indigenous history methodology / K. Tsianina Lomawaima -- Relationality : a key presupposition of an indigenous social research paradigm / Aileen Moreton-Robinson -- Standing with and speaking as faith: a feminist-indigenous approach to inquiry / Kim TallBear -- Stepping in it : how to smell the fullness of indigenous histories / Vicente Diaz -- Intellectual history and indigenous methodology / Robert Warrior -- A genealogy of critical Hawaiian studies, late 20th to 21st century / Noenoe K. Silva -- Placing the city : crafting urban indigenous histories / Coll Thrush -- "I do still have a letter" : our sea of archives / Alice Te Punga Somerville -- History with nana : family, life, and the spoken source / Aroha Harris -- Elder brother as theoretical framework / Robert Innes -- Histories with communities : struggles, collaborations, transformations / Amy E. Den Ouden -- Places and peoples : Sámi feminist technoscience and supradisciplinary research methods / May-Britt Ohman, Uppsala University -- Oral history / William Bauer, Jr -- Status, sustainability, and American Indian women in the twentieth century / Jacki Thompson Rand -- Representations of violence : (re)telling indigenous women's stories and the politics of knowledge production / Shannon Speed -- Feminism and history, sources and methods in indigenous history / Mishuana Goeman -- History and masculinity / Brendan Hokowhitu -- Indigenous is to queer as ... : queer questions for indigenous studies / Mark Rifkin -- State violence, history, and Maya literature in Guatemala / Emilio de valle Escalante -- Pieces left along the trail : material culture histories and indigenous studies / Sherry Farrell Racette, in conversation with Alan Corbiere and Crystal Migwans -- Authoring indigenous studies in three dimensions : an approach to museum curation / Gabrielle Tayac -- Future tense : indigenous film, pedagogy, promise / Michelle Raheja -- Stories as law : a method to live by / Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark -- Metis in the borderlands of the Northern Plains in the nineteenth century / Brenda Macdougall and Nicole St-Onge -- Plotting colonization and recentering indigenous actors : approaches to and sources for studying the history of indigenous education / Margaret D. Jacobs -- Laws, codes, and informal practices : building ethical procedures for historical research with indigenous medical records / Mary Jane Logan McCallum -- Toward a post-quincentennial approach to the study of genocide / Jeffrey Ostler -- Revealing, reporting, and reflecting: indigenous studies research as praxis in reconciliation projects / Sheryl Lightfoot.