Indigeneities in the 21st century
Fourteen years after the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007, Indigenous stakeholders act as global players in arenas such as the UN Convention on Climate Change, the Dakota Access pipeline in the USA, and the Humboldt Forum in Berlin. Yet, until the 1960s, anthropological inquiries considered the same people as “vanishing” and doomed to disappear.
The so-called Indigenous renaissance presents a remarkable phenomenon of late (post)modernity. How can this surprising process be understood and explained? The objective of this project is to study how Indigenous actors evolved from “vanishing people” to global players. The project is located at the disciplinary intersections between anthropology, art, history, philosophy, and politics; and aims at making a future-oriented contribution to (re)emerging Indigeneities and the (re)negotiation of their (post)colonial legacies in and with Europe.
Blog
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01 Oct 2021 | Sara Riordan
Island cooking: Portraits of Sāmoa. Told through food.
What does Sāmoa taste like? Taro? Palusami? Chop Suey? I’m sure if you were to ask 100 different Sāmoans, you’d get 100 different...
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07 Sep 2021 | Vilsoni Hereniko & Philipp Schorch
Sina ma Tinirau: An oral tale set on Rotuma, Fiji
Watch the recently released trailer for Sina ma Tinirau. The animated short film will come out later this year.
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05 Sep 2021 | Mahina Choy-Ellis
Native Books Hawaiʻi: Meet our authors — Philipp Schorch and Noelle Kahanu
Refocusing Ethnographic Museums through Oceanic Lenses offers a collaborative ethnographic investigation of Indigenous...