ABSTRACT

This collection offers the fruits of a stimulating workshop that sought to bridge the fraught relationship which sometimes continues between anthropologists and indigenous/native/aboriginal scholars, despite areas of overlapping interest. Participants from around the world share their views and opinions on subjects ranging from ideas for reconciliation, the question of what might constitute a universal "science," indigenous heritage, postcolonial museology, the boundaries of the term "indigeneity," different senses as ways of knowing, and the very issue of writing as a method of dissemination that divides and excludes readers from different backgrounds. This book represents a landmark step in the process of replacing bridges with more equal patterns of intercultural cooperation and communication.

chapter |17 pages

Introduction

part I|88 pages

Part I

chapter 1|7 pages

Felavai, Interweaving Indigeneity and Anthropology

The Era of Indigenising Anthropology

chapter 2|16 pages

Mpambo Afrikan Multiversity

Dialogue and Building Bridges Across Worldviews, Cultures and Languages

chapter 3|11 pages

The Ainu in the Ethnographic Triad

From the Described to the Describer

chapter 4|11 pages

On the Relations Between Anthropology and Minority Studies in China

Historical Development and Cultural Changes

part II|47 pages

Part II

chapter 11|16 pages

On Knowing and Not Knowing

The Many Valuations of Piaroa Indigenous Knowledge

part III|41 pages

Part III

chapter 12|5 pages

Building the New Nairobi Museum

Perspectives on Post-Colonialism in an African National Museum Sector

chapter 13|9 pages

Post-Colonial or Pre-Colonial

Indigenous Values and Repatriation

chapter 14|14 pages

The Diaspora and the Return

History and Memory in Cape York Peninsula, Australia

chapter 15|11 pages

Material Bridges

Objects, Museums and New Indigeneity in the Caribbean

part IV|54 pages

Part IV

chapter 16|9 pages

Uncovering the Sensory Experience

chapter 17|18 pages

Moko Māori

An Understanding of Pain

part V|33 pages

Part V

chapter 20|17 pages

Culture and the Built Environment

Involving Anthropology and Indigenous/Native Studies for Creating Better Places