Performing Indigeneity

Laura R. Graham is a professor of anthropology at the University of Iowa. She is a filmmaker and author of Performing Dreams: Discourses of Immortality among the Xavante Indians of Central Brazil. H. Glenn Penny is an associate professor of modern European history at the University of Iowa. His most recent book is Kindred by Choice: Germans and American Indians since 1800.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments1. Performing Indigeneity: Emergent Identity, Self-Determination, and SovereigntyLaura R. Graham and H. Glenn Penny2. Living Traditions: A Manifesto for Critical IndigeneityBernard Perley3. Culture Claims: Being Maasai at the United NationsDorothy L. Hodgson4. A White Face for the Cofán Nation? Randy Borman and the Ambivalence of IndigeneityMichael L. Cepek5. Performed Alliances and Performative Identities: Tupinamba in the Kingdom of FranceBeatriz Perrone-Moisés6. Rethinking Sami Agency during Living Exhibitions: From the Age of Empire to the Postwar WorldCathrine Baglo7. Not Playing Indian: Surrogate Indigeneity and the German Hobbyist SceneH. Glenn Penny8. The Return of Kū? Re-membering Hawaiian Masculinity, Warriorhood, and NationTy P. Kāwika Tengan9. Bone-Deep Indigeneity: Theorizing Hawaiian Care for the State and Its Broken ApparatusesGreg Johnson10. Haka: Colonized Physicality, Body-Logic, and Embodied SovereigntyBrendan Hokowhitu11. Genders of Xavante Ethnographic Spectacle: Cultural Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in BrazilLaura R. Graham12. Showing Too Much or Too Little: Predicaments of Painting Indigenous Presence in Central AustraliaFred Myers13. Cities: Indigeneity and BelongingMark K. WatsonContributorsIndex

"Performing Indigeneities lays out a sophisticated treatment of the cross-cultural politics embodied in the productive but hard-to-define category 'indigeneity.' Laura Graham and Glenn Penny's ground-breaking collection brilliantly guides readers through the emergence and renegotiation of such tropes as cultural heritage, human rights, environment, and aboriginality."—Philip J. Deloria, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor of History and American Culture at the University of Michigan and author of Indians in Unexpected Places"One is not born indigenous. That's the far-reaching upshot of this remarkable collection, which radically expands our notion of indigeneity. Along with their collaborators, Laura Graham and Glenn Penny break with any sense of essential selfhood, giving us a performative and dialogic concept that sees the indigenous as a creative space of collective imagination."—Matti Bunzl, professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois"This terrific set of essays brings together some of the best and freshest thinking in a field burgeoning with creativity. Native arts and activism are flourishing, and so are interdisciplinary conversations about Indigeneity. Every chapter offers surprises: gems of insight from unexpected angles. This is a bold step forward."—Beth A. Conklin, chair of the Department of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University and author of Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society