Anthropologists, Indigenous Scholars and the Research Endeavour: Seeking Bridges Towards Mutual Respect [Paperback]

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.

Introduction  Joy Hendry and Laara Fitznor  Section 1: History of the Divergence and Some Ideas for Reconciliation  1. Felavai, Interweaving Indigeneity and Anthropology: The Era of Indigenising Anthropology  Tvita O. Kaili  2. Mpambo Afrikan Multiversity, Dialogue and Building Bridges Across Worldviews, Cultures and Languages  Paulo Wangoola  3. The Ainu in the Ethnographic Triad: From the Described to the Describer  Takami Kuwayama  4. On the Relations Between Anthropology and Minority Studies in China: Historical Development and Cultural Changes  Bateer Chen  5. Verrier Elwin's Tribal World and the Tribal View of Elwin's World  Ganesh Devy  6. Indias Adivasis (Indigenous/Tribal Peoples) and Anthropological Heritage  Daniel Rycroft  7. Social Anthropology, Nativeness and Basque StudielÃb