Indigeneities in the 21st century
Thirteen 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 2020 | Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu
E moe loa – To sleep the long sleep
In the midst of a pandemic, as a hurricane loomed days away, we met at the top of a mauna, under the rising Hoaka moon. A few dozen...
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04 Sep 2020 | Vilsoni Hereniko
NIU: The tree of life – An island fable for today and tomorrow
Read or listen to affiliated researcher Vilsoni Hereniko's island fable on The Living Archive - Extinction Stories from Oceania....
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31 Aug 2020 | Gesa Grimme
Provenienzforschung als Forschungsgegenstand
Provenienzforschung zu anthropologischen, ethnografischen und naturkundlichen Sammlungen aus kolonialen Kontexten liegt im Trend....