Indigenous Modernities in South America

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Indigenous peoples have been cast as representing modernity’s fading premodern Other. This volume starts from the opposite assumption, namely that contemporary indigenous peoples are specifically modern societies, profoundly shaped by their specific ways of dealing with, making use of and transforming the contexts imposed by nation-states, colonial systems and globalization. They do that from a position alternative to that of the modern West. The book aims to understand these processes and the resulting forms of indigenous modernities in Lowland South America through ethnographic case studies. It argues that there is more about indigenous modernities than the simple assertion that indigenous peoples are now modern too. Indigenous groups are modern in multiple, complex and alternative ways. As the contributions show this holds true for current forms of shamanism and indigenous Christian churches, new meanings of traditional clothing, as well as indigenous cosmologies that confront western concepts, technology and welfare programs. The notion of indigenous modernities refers to a space beyond old modernist dichotomies. The paradox, like the disturbing Otherness it brings to our attention, is the result of a relation in which assumptions we take ontologically for granted are confronted by other realities. Looking at the creative ways indigenous peoples’ practices subvert such assumptions may result in substantial irritation and is a starting point for a renewed reflection on classical assumptions about modernities and indigenous ways of both being modern and exceeding modernity in the face of long-standing power inequalities and the imposition of logics of Western ontology.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2018-08-10
Mått156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt524 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor246
FörlagSean Kingston Publishing
ISBN9781912385010

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Chapter 1 Indigenous peoples and the transformations of modernity: Introductory thoughts on contemporary indigeneities (Ernst Halbmayer); Chapter 2 Shamanic modernities and ritual dynamics among the Shuar (Elke Mader); Chapter 3 Yukpa modernity as joint becoming: Ontology, creolization and the affirmation of difference (Ernst Halbmayer); Chapter 4 The fashion of politics and the politics of fashion: On indigenous modernities and Matsigenka struggles (Dan Rosengren); Chapter 5 Christian indigenous identities and alter-native modernities in the upper Amazon (Anna Meiser); Chapter 6 `We bought a television set from Lídia’: Social programmes and indigenous agency among the Sateré-Mawé of the Brazilian lower Amazon (Wolfgang Kapfhammer and Luiza Garnelo); Chapter 7 Ribeirinho hunting techno-animism: On the inexact lines of Amazonian modernity (Aníbal G. Arregui); Chapter 8 The modernity of indigenous movements: Multiple voices between pragmatism, pressureand agency (Katinka Weber); Chapter 9 `More than modern’ indigenous modernities: Tautology, paradox, excess (Ernst Halbmayer); Contributors; Index.

Indigeneous Modernity makes a major contribution to South American studies and is a “must read” by every ethnographer, historian, ethnohistorian, and analyst of South American peoples. It challenges the very basis of so-called “modernization theory” and opens new doors to the understanding of indigenous agency and indigenous powers; Norman E. Whitten Jr, Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies and Curator of the Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;Reading this book is one step (and an important one, might it even be a giant leap?) to decolonizing the mind, as the reader is confronted with an intermingling multitude of perspectives, values, worldviews and futures. This book is especially valuable for senior scholars and students alike, for anybody seriously concerned with social processes of marginalization, resistance, adaptation, appropriation and the creative and constructive shaping of social realities; Bernd Brabec de Mori, Senior Scientist,Institute of Ethnomusicology,University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.