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Native studies keywords / edited by Stephanie Nohelani Teves, Andrea Smith, and Michelle H. Raheja.

Teves, Stephanie N., (editor.). Smith, Andrea, 1966- (editor.). Raheja, Michelle H., (editor.).

Summary:

Publisher's description: This is an edited volume that provides definitions, meanings, and significances of select key concepts often used in Native studies. These concepts include: sovereignty, land, indigeneity, nations, blood, tradition, colonialism, and indigenous epistemologies/knowledges. The manuscript is divided into eight sections, and each section includes three or four essays about one of the concepts. The essays provide an historical, social, and political context for the concepts and indicate how they have been drawn upon by scholars of Native studies.

Record details

ISBN: 9780816531509
ISBN: 0816531501
Physical Description: xi, 356 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2015]

Content descriptions

General Note:: "This is an edited volume that provides definitions, meanings, and significances of select key concepts often used in Native studies. These concepts include: sovereignty, land, indigeneity, nations, blood, tradition, colonialism, and indigenous epistemologies/knowledges. The manuscript is divided into eight sections, and each section includes three or four essays about one of the concepts. The essays provide an historical, social, and political context for the concepts and indicate how they have been drawn upon by scholars of Native studies."--Provided by the publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Sovereignty -- The place where we all live and work together: A gendered analysis of "sovereignty" / Leanne Betasamosake Simpson -- Visual sovereignty / Michelle H. Raheja -- Postcolonial sovereignty / Nandita Sharma -- Land -- Land as life: Unsettling the logics of containment / Mishuana Goeman -- No island is an island / Vicente M. Diaz -- Indigeneity -- Analytics of indigeneity / Maile Arvin -- Genomic articulations of indigeneity / Kim TallBear -- Nation -- Nationalism / Scott Richard Lyons -- Indigenous nationhood / Chris Andersen -- Blood -- Blood policing / Cedric Sunray -- Mixed-blood / Andrea Smith -- Tradition -- Tradition and indigenous languages: Accessing traditions epistemologically through critical analysis of indigenous langauges / Marcus Briggs-Cloud -- Tradition and performance / Stephanie Nohelani Teves -- Colonialism -- Settler colonialsim / Dean Itsuji Saranillio -- Decolonization / Kirisitina Sailiata -- Indigenous epistemologies/Knowledges -- Native American knowledges, Native American epistemologies: Native American langauges as evidence / Jane H. Hill -- Epistemology / Dian Million.