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    Hemispheric Indigeneities
    Native Identity and Agency in Mesoamerica, the Andes, and Canada

    Miléna Santoro (Edited by), Erick D. Langer (Edited by)

    9781496206626

    Hardback, published 1 November 2018

    450 pages, 9 illustrations, 6 maps, 2 tables, index
    22.9 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm, 0.844 kg

    "One of the strengths of this collection is that the articles reference one another, providing critical links between the geographic regions and highlighting areas of similarity and difference between Indigenous agency and activism in diverse locales. The range of contributions with regard to content, writing style, and sources used makes the edited collection Hemispheric Indigeneities an excellent text for a course in contemporary Indigenous studies and one that would be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of folklore, history, theatre, literary studies, and anthropology."-Sarah Campbell, Journal of Folklore Research
    "Innovative in its effort to bring scholars from these different regions together, Hemispheric Indigeneities offers a solid contribution on which future comparative scholarship can build."-David Carey Jr., Hispanic American Historical Review
    “This collection makes a tremendous contribution to burgeoning discussions of Indigeneity. In rich and fascinating detail, each chapter elaborates processes and meanings of ‘being’ and ‘becoming’ Indigenous across time and geographic space in the Americas. It is sure to enrich hemispheric and global dialogue about the nuances, diversity, complexities, and contradictions of Indigeneity both historically and in the contemporary world.”-Laura R. Graham, professor of anthropology at the University of Iowa and coeditor of Performing Indigeneity: Global Histories and Contemporary Experiences

    Hemispheric Indigeneities is a critical anthology that brings together indigenous and nonindigenous scholars specializing in the Andes, Mesoamerica, and Canada. The overarching theme is the changing understanding of indigeneity from first contact to the contemporary period in three of the world’s major regions of indigenous peoples.

    Although the terms indio, indigÈne, and indian only exist (in Spanish, French, and English, respectively) because of European conquest and colonization, indigenous peoples have appropriated or changed this terminology in ways that reflect their shifting self-identifications and aspirations. As the essays in this volume demonstrate, this process constantly transformed the relation of Native peoples in the Americas to other peoples and the state. This volume’s presentation of various factors-geographical, temporal, and cross-cultural-provide illuminating contributions to the burgeoning field of hemispheric indigenous studies.

    Hemispheric Indigeneities explores indigenous agency and shows that what it means to be indigenous was and is mutable. It also demonstrates that self-identification evolves in response to the relationship between indigenous peoples and the state. The contributors analyze the conceptions of what indigeneity meant, means today, or could come to mean tomorrow.
     

    List of Illustrations
    Acknowledgments
    Introduction
    Part 1. First Contacts, First Nations
    1. The Early Colonial Origins of Indigeneity in and around the Basin of Mexico
    Susan Kellogg
    2. Existing Ancestralities and the Failure of Colonial Regimes
    Susan Elizabeth RamÍ
    rez
    3. “
    We Do the Same Thing among Ourselves”
    : Becoming Indigenous in Atlantic Canada
    David T. McNab
    Part 2. Indigenous Survival and Selfhood in the Long Nineteenth Century
    4. Everything Must Change so that Everything Can Stay the Same: Miscegenation, Racialization, and Culture in Modern Mesoamerica
    Luis Fernando Granados
    5. From Prosperity to Poverty: Andeans in the Nineteenth Century
    Erick D. Langer
    6. Nation Making / Nation Breaking: “
    Effective Control”
    of Aboriginal Lands and Peoples by Settlers in Transition
    Karl S. Hele
    Part 3. Asserting Indigeneity in the Contemporary Era
    7. Asserting Indigeneity in Contemporary Mexico and Central America: Autonomy, Rights, and Confronting Nation-States
    Lynn Stephen
    8. Against Coloniality: AndrÉ
    s Jach’
    aqullu’
    s Indigenous Movement in the Era of the Bolivian National Revolution of 1952
    Waskar T. Ari-Chachaki
    9. Reel Visions: Snapshots from a Half Century of First Nations Cinema
    MilÉ
    na Santoro
    Postface. Indigenous Experience and Legacies
    10. Travels of a MÉ
    tis through Spirit Memory, around Turtle Island, and Beyond
    David T. McNab
    Contributors
    Index
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