First Nations, Indigenous, Native American, Aboriginal, Metis, Inuit, Aborigine
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Cagdas Dedeoglu deposited Posthumanism for Sustainability: A Scoping Review in the group
Indigenous Studies on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 1 day agoThe purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between posthumanism and sustainability and contribute to the interdisciplinary concept of posthuman sustainability. We conducted a scoping review of 45 peer-reviewed journal articles that met our inclusion criteria and employed co-occurrence analysis based on the clustering techniques of…[Read more]
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Bernd Brabec deposited Academic (In)Discipline, Research (In)Sanity and the Conundrum of (Indigenous) Timescapes in the group
Indigenous Studies on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 6 days agoThis contribution focuses on strategies to bridge what in anthropology is called ontological incommensurability: Indigenous worlds often seem inaccessible to modern thought. Instead of trying to open Indigenous worlds to Westerners, I rather intend to make Western worlds accessible to Indigenous thought; and likewise, academic disciplines…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited The sp tp.y (First Occasion) and the Dreamtime: Egyptian D.t as a parallel to Aboriginal tjukurrpa? in the group
Indigenous Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks agoEgyptologists have long struggled to translate D.t nHH, with expressions ranging from ‘linear and circular eternity’ to ‘everlasting completedness and ongoingness’. Similarly, ethnologists have found it impossible to translate the pan-Australian Aboriginal concept of tjukurrpa, resorting to neologisms such as ‘the Dreamtime’ or ‘the Dreaming’.…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies (UVA) in the discussion
Indigenous Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months agoDear colleagues,
Please help us share the news with early career scholars in your networks. Maltyox chawe’/Thank you very much! — Allison. You can find the original job ad here: https://uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UVAJobs/job/Charlottesville-VA/Tenure-track-Assistant-Professor—Native-American-and-Indigenous-Studies_R0030413. I’ve also pasted it…[Read more]
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Bill Pascoe deposited Mapping Meaning: learnings from indigenous mapping technology for Australia’s digital humanities mapping infrastructure in the group
Indigenous Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoTime Layered Cultural Map (TLCMap) is an ambitious, ARC funded, digital humanities mapping infrastructure initiative in Australia. TLCMap infrastructure is for everyone, but the inspiration, conception and development of it has always had Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mapping at its heart. If Australian culture is world famous for anything…[Read more]
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Katie Wilson deposited Global diversity in higher education staffing: Towards openness in the group
Indigenous Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe adoption of institutional diversity, equity and inclusion policies and programs in recent decades highlights an ongoing need for structural and cultural change within higher education institutions. It also raises questions around gender, race and disability politics, the decolonisation of diversity and neoliberal management of higher…[Read more]
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Luis de Orueta deposited Los Virreyes de América del Norte (Nueva España 1535-1821) in the group
Indigenous Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThree years before the end of the Spanish presence in the Northern Hemisphere of America the territory of New Spain included the following modern States: Arizona, Belize, California, Colorado, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Florida, Guatemala, Honduras, Louisiana, Mexico, Nevada, New Mexico, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Texas and Utah. This…[Read more]
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Luis de Orueta deposited Los Virreyes de América del Norte (Nueva España 1535-1821) in the group
Indigenous Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThree years before the end of Spanish presence, the territory of New Spain included the following modern States: Arizona, Belize, California, Colorado, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Florida, Guatemala, Honduras, Louisiana, Mexico, Nevada, Nicaragua, New Mexico, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Texas and Utah. This book provides comments on the…[Read more]
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Alicia Colson PhD deposited The Perpetual Dilemma of a Pictograph Site in the group
Indigenous Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month agoIdeally it would be fantastic to reconstitute the life history of a visual artefact, such as a pictograph site in the hope that it may help in es-
tablishing the meanings of these images, their role in the mental and physical landscape as well as the likely sensory and soundscape. This
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Kenji Khozoei deposited Decolonising the Commons: Fugitivity and Future Planning in End Times in the group
Indigenous Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoThey say the global proliferation of colonial and neoliberal (ir)rationalities and the techno-managerial enclosure of the ‘commons’ (Hardt & Negri 2000; Harvey 2004) has resulted in a ‘foreclosure of politics’, prompting calls for a renewed technocultural hegemony for a post-capitalist future (Srnicek & Williams 2015) or a return to the revolut…[Read more]
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Bernd Brabec deposited Shipibo Laughing Songs and the Transformative Faculty: Performing or Becoming the Other (2013) in the group
Indigenous Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years agoShipibo indigenous people perform a sophisticated array of vocal musical genres, including short ‘laughing songs’ called osanti. These song-jokes make fun of certain non-humans, mostly animals. They are by definition sung from within the non-humans’ perspective. Osanti are only performed by trained specialists in indigenous medicine and sorce…[Read more]
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Taylor R. Genovese deposited Decolonizing Archival Methodology: Combating hegemony and moving towards a collaborative archival environment in the group
Indigenous Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years agoThe foundation of archival methodology is influenced by colonialism and imperialism. This paternalistic system has created a hegemonic environment that has directly influenced archivists working with Indigenous materials. While positive steps have been made, such as the enactment of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (1990)…[Read more]
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Sonia Silva deposited Along an African Border: Angolan Refugees and Their Divination Baskets in the group
Indigenous Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoIn Along an African Border, anthropologist Sónia Silva examines how the Angolan refugees living in Zambia during the Angolan civil war used their divination baskets to cope with daily life in a new land. To many people, these baskets are capable of thinking, hearing, judging, and responding. They communicate by means of small articles drawn in…[Read more]
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Sonia Silva deposited Vidas em Jogo: Cestas de Adivinhacao e Refugiados Angolanos na Zambia in the group
Indigenous Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoAs cestas de adivinhação de Angola, da Zâmbia e da República Democrática do Congo tornaram-se mundialmente conhecidas pelo seu fascinante conteúdo: várias dezenas de peças imbuídas de simbolismo. Vidas em Jogo apresenta este simbolismo em acção. As cestas de adivinhação, transformadas em oráculos, são entendidas pelos seus utilizadores c…[Read more]
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Sonia Silva deposited Mind, Body and Spirit in Basket Divination: An Integrative Way of Knowing in the group
Indigenous Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThe statements of researchers on the topic of basket divination and the statements of basket diviners in northwest Zambia, Africa, do not fully agree. While researchers rightly stress the importance of observation, analysis and interpretation in basket divination, going so far as to describe diviners as scientists, they fail to recognize that…[Read more]
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Sonia Silva deposited Object and Objectivity in Divination in the group
Indigenous Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoIn this article, the author explores basket divination, a technique found in Zambia and neighboring countries, as a form of material religion. Mores specifically, the author shows that in basket divination the idea of objectivity (objective knowledge) is directly associated with the materiality of the oracle used for divining. In the Luvale…[Read more]
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Sonia Silva deposited Witchcraft and the Gift: Killing and Healing in Northwest Zambia in the group
Indigenous Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis chapter on witchcraft in northwest Zambia shows that forms of asking and giving may be deployed to suspend suspicion about the motives of others, even as they possess the potential to kill. When a woman asks a witch for a gift of salt to flavor her food, the witch feigns generosity but forces that woman to join the coven in recompense. In…[Read more]
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Sonia Silva deposited Political Evil: Witchcraft from the Perspective of the Bewitched in the group
Indigenous Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoInstead of asking what evil is, let us see where evil takes us. Based on many conversations on the topic of witchcraft in northwest Zambia, Africa—conversations in which witchcraft is presented from the perspective of the bewitched—the concept of evil takes us to a ghastly realm of destruction and transfiguration where the discourse of mor…[Read more]
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Andrew Newman (he/him) deposited Fulfilling the Name: Catherine Tekakwitha and Marguerite Kanenstenhawi (Eunice Williams) in the group
Indigenous Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoCatherine Tekakwitha (1656-1680) and Marguerite Kanenstenhawi (1696-1785), much better known as Eunice Williams, are two of the most famous women of colonial North America. This essay proposes that we can gain further insight about Catherine Tekakwitha and Marguerite Kanenstenhawi through comparison. The focus for this comparison is the study of…[Read more]
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Andrew Newman (he/him) deposited Fulfilling the Name: Catherine Tekakwitha and Marguerite Kanenstenhawi (Eunice Williams) in the group
Indigenous Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoCatherine Tekakwitha (1656-1680) and Marguerite Kanenstenhawi (1696-1785), much better known as Eunice Williams, are two of the most famous women of colonial North America. This essay proposes that we can gain further insight about Catherine Tekakwitha and Marguerite Kanenstenhawi through comparison. The focus for this comparison is the study of…[Read more]
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