Indigenous Studies

Aboriginal Pastoralism, Social Embeddedness and Cultural Continuity in Central Australia

by Nicholas Gill

2005, Society and Natural Resources, 18, 1-16.

Aboriginal people are involved in pastoral enterprises throughout the inland and north of Australia. This has... more Aboriginal people are involved in pastoral enterprises throughout the inland and north of Australia. This has generated difficulties as landowners and policymakers struggled with conflicts between Aboriginal social structures and the demands of running commercial businesses. Problems often arose due to imposition of nonindigenous norms regarding land use. It has been suggested that pastoralism can generate social and cultural benefits for Aboriginal landowners, but these have not been investigated in any detail. Drawing on the concept of social embeddedness and fieldwork with Aboriginal pastoralists, this article identifies, describes, and ranks sociocultural benefits arising from Aboriginal pastoralism. Pastoralism fulfilled uniquely Aboriginal aims and was most important for its role in Aboriginal social and cultural and reproduction. In the Aboriginal context, pastoralism should be conceived in terms that include these Aboriginal motivations and that recognize the social embeddedness of pastoralism.

Engaging with the (un)familiar: Field teaching in a multi-campus teaching environment

by Nicholas Gill

With Michael Adams and Christine Eriksen, 2012, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 36(2), 259-275.

Field trips have long been central to geography, but have been subject to assessment of the role of the ‘field’ in... more Field trips have long been central to geography, but have been subject to assessment of the role of the ‘field’ in teaching. At the same time, academics face barriers to running field trips. Distance education and enhanced educational access for non-metropolitan students represented such an obstacle at an Australian university. These obstacles were taken as an opportunity to draw on the regional nature of the students and staff to enhance teaching goals, run critically informed field trips by and manage academic workloads. We evaluate the field trips by conducting surveys and interviews with students and tutors, and as an example of innovation within constraints.

The Spectacle of Champlain: Commemorating Québec

by Darryl Leroux

This essay examines the process of foundation through which Samuel de Champlain's public image as the founder of... more This essay examines the process of foundation through which Samuel de Champlain's public image as the founder of Québec has been instituted both historically and during Québec City’s 400th anniversary commemorations in 2008. Through analyzing the official commemorative event, Rencontres, I demonstrate how Champlain's memory is deeply informed by spectacularized forms of politics. In particular, I argue that the Québec 400 places Champlain as the founder of a culturally diverse Québec by underlining the peaceful encounter between French colonizers and indigenous peoples. By relying on a strategy of familiarity that builds on the politics of spectacle and a semiotics of space, this discursive move solidifies the normative Québécois subject's ability to legitimately manage national space and define its own boundaries. I end by arguing that commemoration stands out as an important technique of the nationbuilding project in Québec.

Aproximación cuantitativa a la organización social de los ticuna del trapecio amazónico colombiano

by Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo

(with Juan José Vieco)
La organización social de los Ticuna del trapecio amazónico colombiano: una aproximación cuantitativa. Revista Colombiana de Antropología 35:146-179. 1999 1999

This paper argues that Ticuna identity is based on terms of belonging to a clan (which they call nacao= nation). These... more This paper argues that Ticuna identity is based on terms of belonging to a clan (which they call nacao= nation). These clans are clustered in the moieties of "Earth" and "Air". The Ticuna have a hierarchical society than can be interpreted under the model of the house society. The clans have a prescriptive marriage that favors the endogamic control of territories and settlements. Although the marriage system is denominated "hypertotemic exogamous moieties" by Levi-Strauss, there is no significant exchange of females between villages.

Postcolonial Cultural Affiliation: Essentialism, Hybridity, and NAGPRA. In Archaeology and the Postcolonial Critique, edited by M. Liebmann and U. Rizvi, pp. 73-90. Altamira Press, Lanham, MD.

by Matthew Liebmann

2008. In Archaeology and the Postcolonial Critique, edited by M. Liebmann and U. Rizvi, pp. 73-90. Altamira Press, Lanham, MD.

Domestic violence report - Signe Leth 2012

by Signe Leth

"Testing the Limits": What Happens When Digital Humanities Meets Alternative Worldviews

by Jodey Castricano

Abstract

“Testing the Limits” aims to introduce a conceptual paradigm shift in theoretical approaches to... more Abstract

“Testing the Limits” aims to introduce a conceptual paradigm shift in theoretical approaches to the use of immersive technologies in a postcolonial, post-positivistic world. This means bringing into proximity alternative explanatory models of “reality”--such as quantum theory, the Indigenous philosophy of Leroy Little Bear, and the theory of synchronicity as developed by Carl G. Jung in collaboration with physicist Wolfgang Pauli--where these modes open into alternative worldviews which offer a rapprochement in the history of consciousness between science and art. This study, therefore, focuses on the instrumentality of theory itself in constructing perceptual models of reality (including scientific and artistic worldviews), especially where it is “virtual” and where it needs consider diverse philosophies, scientific theories and representations of space/time in relation to subjectivity. To illustrate this claim, the media work by Canadian artist, Char Davies will be offered as a case studies. Char Davies is a software developer and artist whose work is informed by her understanding of quantum theory.

Mapping indigenous Siberia: Spatial changes and ethnic realities, 1900–2010

by Ivan Sablin

co-authored with Maria Savelyeva, published in Settler Colonial Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 2011, pp. 77–110.

This article discusses spatial changes in the ethnic territories of Native Siberians from the late nineteenth century... more This article discusses spatial changes in the ethnic territories of Native Siberians from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. A Geographic Information System (GIS) was developed to model and observe these changes. The GIS also features resource-oriented economic activities, major waterways and railroads. Analysis of the model, textual sources and statistical data made it possible to determine what factors constituted Siberia’s ethnographical pattern of the early twentieth century and led to its changes in the ensuing decades and what impact on the indigenous peoples these changes had. Four special maps showing Siberia in the 1900s–10s, 1930s–40s, 1970s–80s and 2000s–10s were produced from the GIS and are included in the article. The current legal status of the indigenous peoples’ territories was also examined. This article presents an interdisciplinary macroscale case study.

ENTRE LA GUERRA DE CASTAS Y LA LADINIZACIÓN. LA IMAGEN DEL INDÍGENA EN LA CENTROAMÉRICA LIBERAL, 1870-1944

by David Diaz-Arias

Book Review - Ainu Spirits Singing: The Living World of Chiri Yukie's Ainu Shin'yoshu, by Sarah M. Strong. 2011

by Shingo Hamada

published in Journal of Folklore Research, 2012.

Le pastoralisme en Sibérie occidentale: les défis qu'affrontent les éleveurs de Rennes

by Stephan Dudeck

DUDECK (Stephan).- Le pastoralisme en Sibérie occidentale: les défis qu'affrontent
les éleveurs de Rennes.- Paris : Harmattan, 2010.- In : Pasteurs nomades et transhumants
autochtones / Groupe international de travail pour les peuples autochtones (GITPA) p. 125-
149.- Bibliogr. p. 148-149.-
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Visual identity and Indigenous tourism: power, authenticity, hybridity and the Osoyoos Indian Band's Nk'Mip Desert Cultural Centre

by Katie Bresner

Masters Thesis

The tourism industry is particularly reliant on the use of imagery to create a brand for a destination or attraction... more The tourism industry is particularly reliant on the use of imagery to create a brand for a destination or attraction in order to effectively market its product. In the case of Indigenous tourism, a paradox often exists between maintaining a level of recognition and familiarity that mirror the expectations of the public imagination, and conveying a representation that is locally meaningful and emblematic. Investigation into the visual representation and communication of identity through tourism is a means to illustrate three overlapping issues that are prevalent throughout the literature on Indigenous tourism. These are: control, authenticity, and hybridity. This research project addresses these issues through an extensive review of anthropological and tourism-related literature and its application to the specific case study of one Indigenous tourism business, the Nk’Mip Desert Cultural Centre (NDCC), owned and operated by the Osoyoos Indian Band (OIB) in Osoyoos, British Columbia (BC), Canada. Semiotic and visual analyses are used to elucidate the messages about OIB identity communicated through the Centre’s visuals, in order to bring the example of the OIB and NDCC into conversation with the larger issues found within Indigenous tourism.

Social Perceptions of Environmental Changes and Local Development within the Usumacinta River Basin

by Jérôme Gandin

APCBEE Procedia, 2012

The transboundary river basin of the Usumacinta is facing a growing number of environmental and socioeconomicmore The transboundary river basin of the Usumacinta is facing a growing number of environmental and socioeconomic
changes in recent years. Regarding the wealth of natural resources it contains, this watershed has a high development
potential. However, the local populations remain among the poorest in Mexico and Guatemala and furthermore their
lives are profoundly weakened by environmental degradation. Being excluded from any development intervention,
the local communities have chosen the path of mobilization to ensure themselves better living conditions and call
attention to the natural and cultural heritage of the Usumacinta river basin. Social perceptions of environmental
change and expectations of local people in terms of local development are examined by using mixed methods. The
results highlight the failure of the traditional approaches of conservation and local development. This article puts
forth a reconsidered concept of sustainable development by taking into account the dimension of culture and makes
an effort of contextualization to address the socio-economic and environmental problems.

Genealogies of destruction: an archaeology of the contemporary past in the Amazon forest

by Alfredo González-Ruibal

Co-authored with Almudena Hernando.
Published in Archaeologies. Journal of the World Archaeological Congress 6(1): 5-28. 2010.

In this article we look at the destruction of the Amazon forest through an archaeological lens. We describe the... more In this article we look at the destruction of the Amazon forest through an archaeological lens. We describe the devastation brought about by illegal loggers and ranchers to the last remaining old-growth forests of Maranhão (NE Brazil), where the Awá hunter-gatherers live. We argue that archaeology can provide an alternative and more critical look at global consumerism by manifesting the crude materiality and abject
violence that lurks behind the goods consumed in the West. We followed the tracks of a group of loggers deep inside the forest and report what we saw.

Putting the Market in Its Place: Food Security in Three Mapuche Communities in Southern Chile

by Timothy David Clark

Latin American Research Review 46(2): 154-179

This article analyzes the impact of state policies since the 1970s on household food security in several Mapuche... more This article analyzes the impact of state policies since the 1970s on household food security in several Mapuche communities in the Araucanía region of Chile (Region IX). The author highlights key transformations in the national economy and food system and endeavors to link those to local phenomena, in particular the absorption of the local livelihood strategies and food systems into capitalist markets and the high incidences of food insecurity. The article concludes that a reconceptualization of macroeconomic and indigenous policies are required to rebuild the material and social foundations of rural Mapuche communities that provide the bases from which their inhabitants can reconstruct a mutually beneficial relationship with the broader Chilean society and avert the continued acceleration of tension and violence.

'Cartoline Da Samoa' (2009) Written by Daniela Morera

by Shigeyuki Kihara

'Cartoline Da Samoa' (2009) Written by Daniela Morera. Published in Rollingstones Magazine, taly.

'Gender and Identity; Samoa's Narratives' (2008)

by Shigeyuki Kihara

'Gender and Identity; Samoa's Narratives' (2008) Written by Celeste Federico for Aesthetica Magazine (UK)

'Hand in Hand' (2008) Exhibition Catelogue

by Shigeyuki Kihara

‘Hand in Hand’ is a group exhibition which explores the experiences of Indigenous and ‘queer’ artists from Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific, curated by Jenny Fraser and Shigeyuki Kihara.

The ‘Hand in Hand’ exhibition was formerly staged at Performance Space and Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative - both venues based in Sydney later toured to the University of Tasmania Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmania, Australia in 2008.

New Interethnic Relations and Native Perceptions of Human-to-Human Relations in Brazilian Amazonia

by pirjo kristiina virtanen

2009. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 14(2): 332-354.

This article attempts to provide fresh insight into the new kinds of intermediaries found in Amazonian native... more This article attempts to provide fresh insight into the new kinds of intermediaries found in Amazonian native communities, showing how interethnic relations have changed
today’s native communities. The text presents a case study of the Manchineri people living in Brazilian Amazonia, focusing in particular on their spokespeople in rural and urban areas. These intermediaries work to produce equality and relatedness within the new social spaces where negotiations are required. Producing new human perspectives with non-natives is necessary in order to interact in the contemporary Amazonian
interethnic sociocosmologies. However, in the Manchineri community, new social roles have caused widening generational, urban–rural and gender gaps. The social logic
of Amazonian native peoples limits the ways in which specific social roles with special interethnic skills are temporarily adopted, and produces new ways to overcome deepening
social, political, and economic distances.

An extreme case: Two cases for enterprise development workshops in Botswana

by Peter Mellalieu

Mellalieu, P. J. (2009). An extreme case: Two cases for enterprise development workshops in Botswana (Case and workshop notes). Auckland, NZ: Unitec New Zealand Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (NZCIE). Retrieved from http://web.me.com/petermellalieu/Teacher/Examples/Entries/2009/7/31_An_extreme_case%3A_Two_cases_for_enterprise_development_in_Botswana.html

In 2005, I embarked on a programme to design and facilitate a series of ‘capacity building’ workshops in enterprise... more In 2005, I embarked on a programme to design and facilitate a series of ‘capacity building’ workshops in enterprise development with the University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana in southern Africa. The workshops were designed to help faculty members experience the practical foundations for the delivery of effective enterprise development education programmes for world-class entrepreneurs and their supporters: their co-partners, investors, advisors, teachers, trainers - and entrepreneurs-to-be. Part of the task involved advising on how to develop the university’s existing Business Clinic into an Entrepreneurship Development Centre serving prospective entrepreneurs and the supporters described earlier. This blueprint for this development is presented in Mellalieu (2006a) and summarised in Mellalieu (2006b).

In order to demonstrate the value and practice of 'real world learning', I lead four teams to provide advice to entrepreneurs founded on four ‘live’ cases of an entrepreneurial start-up or SME growth opportunity. The workshop teams first updated the ‘live’ cases in conversation with ‘their’ entrepreneurial client. Finally, each team presented their analysis and advice back to the case client in the final plenary session of the workshop. Two of the cases, Heroic Fashion Designers and Brackendene Lodge are presented here.

Related:
Mellalieu, P. J. (2006a). Creating Enterprise in Extreme Environments: Strategic Leadership from an Entrepreneurship Development Centre at the University of Botswana (p. 67). Auckland, NZ: New Zealand Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Unitec Institute of Technology. Retrieved from http://web.me.com/petermellalieu/Teacher/Examples/Entries/2007/10/18_Creating_enterprise_in_extreme_environments__Strategic_leadership_from_an_entrepreneurship_development_centre_at_the_University_of_Botswana.html

Mellalieu, P. J. (2006b). Case study: Capacity building for entrepreneur enabling in Southern Africa. International Indigenous Journal of Entrepreneurship, Advancement, Strategy and Education, 2(1). Retrieved from http://www.indigenousjournal.com/IIJEASVolIIIss1Mellalieu.pdf

Mellalieu, P. J. (2006c). Fitness for purpose - Capacity building for enterprise development and entrepreneurship in southern Africa (Special issue on quality assurance in higher education). Lonaka - Bulletin of the Centre for Academic Development, University of Botswana, Botswana, 67–85. Retrieved from http://web.me.com/petermellalieu/Teacher/Examples/Entries/2006/10/2_Fitness_for_purpose__Capacity-building_for_enterprise_development_and_entrepreneurship_in_southern_Africa.html