First published in 2018 by

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      © 2018, 2020 Eva Gerharz, Nasir Uddin, and Pradeep Chakkarath

      First paperback edition published in 2020

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      Contents

       List of Illustrations

       Preface

       Adam Kuper

       Acknowledgments

       List of Abbreviations

       Introduction Exploring Indigeneity: Introductory Remarks on a Contested Concept

       Nasir Uddin, Eva Gerharz, and Pradeep Chakkarath

       PART I. STRUGGLES OVER LAND AND RESOURCES

       Chapter 1 On the Nature of Indigenous Land: Ownership, Access, and Farming in Upland Northeast India

       Erik de Maaker

       Chapter 2 Considering the Implications of the Concept of Indigeneity for Land and Natural Resource Management in Cambodia, Thailand, and Laos

       Ian G. Baird

       PART II. BECOMING INDIGENOUS

       Chapter 3 Processes of Modernization, Processes of Indigenization: An Amazonian Case (Yanomami, Southern Venezuela)

       Gabriele Herzog-Schröder

       Chapter 4 Indigenous Activism beyond Ethnic Groups: Shifting Boundaries and Constellations of Belonging

       Eva Gerharz

       Chapter 5 In Search of Self: Identity, Indigeneity, and Cultural Politics in Bangladesh

       Nasir Uddin

       PART III. INDIGENEITY AS A POLITICAL RESOURCE

       Chapter 6 Different Trajectories of Indigenous Rights Movements in Africa: Insights from Cameroon and Tanzania

       Michaela Pelican

       Chapter 7 Politics of Indigeneity in the Andean Highlands: Indigenous Social Movements and the State in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru (1940–2015)

       Olaf Kaltmeier

       Chapter 8 Conflicting Dimensions of Indigeneity as a Contested Political Resource in Contemporary Mexico

       Gilberto Rescher

       PART IV. INDIGENEITY AND THE STATE

       Chapter 9 Intimate Antagonisms: Adivasis and the State in Contemporary India

       Uday Chandra

       Chapter 10 Indigeneity, Culture, and the State: Social Change and Legal Reforms in Latin America

       Wolfgang Gabbert

       Chapter 11 Fluid Indigeneities in the Indian Ocean: A Small History of the State and Its Other

       Philipp Zehmisch

       Postscriptum The Futures of Indigenous Medicine: Networks, Contexts, Freedom

       William S. Sax

       Index

Illustrations

       Figures

       Figure 3.1. This shed hosts the school in Caño Bocón, where the people who formerly called themselves Hapokashitha settled in the late 1990s. The humble shelter is covered with aluminum, which was obtained from the mission post.

       Figure 3.2. The school in Sheroana is located within the circle of the shapono in a small hut thatched with palm leaves under a tree. Next to the school is the lean-to roof where communal shamanic sessions take place nearly every day.

       Tables

       Table 6.1. Illustration of parallel and partly conflicting categories.

       Table 6.2. Perspectives on primary entitlement to land on the basis of the categorizations in Table 6.1.

       Maps

       Map 3.1. The map shows the central part of the area inhabited by the Yanomami in 2012. It outlines the territory of the Yanomamï or the “central Yanomami” and depicts the locations of the selected Yanomami communities and the mission posts discussed in the text. There are many more Yanomami villages or shaponos in this region which are not shown here.

Preface