Indigeneity on the Move

Eva Gerharz is Professor of Sociology with a Special Focus on Globalisation at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany. She is the author of The Politics of Reconstruction and Development in Sri Lanka. Transnational Commitments to Social Change (Routledge, 2014) and co-editor of Governance, Conflict and Development in South Asia (with Siri Hettige, Sage, 2015).

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Preface

Adam Kuper



Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations



Introduction: Exploring Indigeneity: Introductory Remarks

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