Ronald Niezen
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520235540
- eISBN:
- 9780520936690
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520235540.003.0003
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Anthropology, Global
This chapter approaches the historical questions with ethnographic comparison between the experiences of marginalization, oppression, and claims of special rights by one indigenous society in Canada ...
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This chapter approaches the historical questions with ethnographic comparison between the experiences of marginalization, oppression, and claims of special rights by one indigenous society in Canada and another in West Africa. These two cases help show some of the various ways distinct societies or peoples claiming indigenous identity are marginalized and diminished by states, dominant ethnic groups, and multinational corporations. Although this chapter does not present the complete tool kit of oppression employed against distinct societies, the strategies encountered—and those that seem to stimulate most clearly grievance and identity politics—range from ethnocidal policies to the perpetration of ethnic cleansing. The Canada/Africa comparison also reveals something of the history of the indigenous peoples' movement itself, for it was through an extension of participation in international consultations and standard-setting exercises to self-identifying indigenous peoples from Africa and Asia in the 1990s that the indigenous peoples' movement became more fully global.Less
This chapter approaches the historical questions with ethnographic comparison between the experiences of marginalization, oppression, and claims of special rights by one indigenous society in Canada and another in West Africa. These two cases help show some of the various ways distinct societies or peoples claiming indigenous identity are marginalized and diminished by states, dominant ethnic groups, and multinational corporations. Although this chapter does not present the complete tool kit of oppression employed against distinct societies, the strategies encountered—and those that seem to stimulate most clearly grievance and identity politics—range from ethnocidal policies to the perpetration of ethnic cleansing. The Canada/Africa comparison also reveals something of the history of the indigenous peoples' movement itself, for it was through an extension of participation in international consultations and standard-setting exercises to self-identifying indigenous peoples from Africa and Asia in the 1990s that the indigenous peoples' movement became more fully global.
Maria Maria Sapignoli
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199580910
- eISBN:
- 9780191723025
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199580910.003.0010
- Subject:
- Law, Comparative Law
This chapter examines the case of a group of Bushmen/San/Basarwa and Bakgalagadi/Bantu that for the first time in Botswana brought the national Government as respondent in front of the High Court of ...
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This chapter examines the case of a group of Bushmen/San/Basarwa and Bakgalagadi/Bantu that for the first time in Botswana brought the national Government as respondent in front of the High Court of their State, claiming an indigenous identity and their right to go back to their ‘ancestral’ land, the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR), after being relocated by the same Government. It explores the relationship between anthropology, law, and indigeneity, considering the central role that anthropology had in the case, as ‘expert witness’ and ‘factual witness’. The case itself is also considered as the subject of anthropological reflection and ethnographic enquiry. In the Court Case, different identities had to be negotiated. The chapter focuses on two: those of the Anthropologist; and the Bushmen, who have to mediate their identity amidst the expectations of the law, judges, NGOs, and their community. It shows how indigeneity was practiced inside the courtroom, and how the Bushmen and the Anthropologist were both compelled to assume identities and use language recognizable to national and international legal discourse. This Court Case raises questions about Bushman's identity, anthropological practice, and the context in which indigenous identities are articulated.Less
This chapter examines the case of a group of Bushmen/San/Basarwa and Bakgalagadi/Bantu that for the first time in Botswana brought the national Government as respondent in front of the High Court of their State, claiming an indigenous identity and their right to go back to their ‘ancestral’ land, the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR), after being relocated by the same Government. It explores the relationship between anthropology, law, and indigeneity, considering the central role that anthropology had in the case, as ‘expert witness’ and ‘factual witness’. The case itself is also considered as the subject of anthropological reflection and ethnographic enquiry. In the Court Case, different identities had to be negotiated. The chapter focuses on two: those of the Anthropologist; and the Bushmen, who have to mediate their identity amidst the expectations of the law, judges, NGOs, and their community. It shows how indigeneity was practiced inside the courtroom, and how the Bushmen and the Anthropologist were both compelled to assume identities and use language recognizable to national and international legal discourse. This Court Case raises questions about Bushman's identity, anthropological practice, and the context in which indigenous identities are articulated.
Catherine Young
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199544547
- eISBN:
- 9780191720260
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199544547.003.0014
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This chapter investigates whether bilingual and transitional literacy programmes can effectively be developed in multilingual and culturally diverse social contexts, such as the Philippines and other ...
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This chapter investigates whether bilingual and transitional literacy programmes can effectively be developed in multilingual and culturally diverse social contexts, such as the Philippines and other Asian nations. It argues that educational policies play a critical role in recognising the place of languages in Indigenous identity. The chapter describes current innovations in first language education in the elementary years in the Philippines. It draws on examples from Manobo and Kalagan language communities in Mindanao and the Kalinga languages of northern Luzon.Less
This chapter investigates whether bilingual and transitional literacy programmes can effectively be developed in multilingual and culturally diverse social contexts, such as the Philippines and other Asian nations. It argues that educational policies play a critical role in recognising the place of languages in Indigenous identity. The chapter describes current innovations in first language education in the elementary years in the Philippines. It draws on examples from Manobo and Kalagan language communities in Mindanao and the Kalinga languages of northern Luzon.
Christopher Highley
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199533404
- eISBN:
- 9780191714726
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199533404.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
English Catholics and Discourses of the Nation begins by situating the book within current work on early modern Catholic culture and in relation to ongoing debates about national identity-formation ...
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English Catholics and Discourses of the Nation begins by situating the book within current work on early modern Catholic culture and in relation to ongoing debates about national identity-formation in the pre-industrial era. The chapter then takes up the vexed concept of a Catholic community and the relation between stay-at-home Catholics and their exiled brethren. Stay-at-home Catholics adhered tenaciously to an indigenous version of their faith that they saw as being threatened as much by imported forms of Catholicism as by Protestant innovations. The second part of the chapter turns looks at the reign of Mary and Philip as a time when some of the key concepts of English Catholic nationalism were formulated.Less
English Catholics and Discourses of the Nation begins by situating the book within current work on early modern Catholic culture and in relation to ongoing debates about national identity-formation in the pre-industrial era. The chapter then takes up the vexed concept of a Catholic community and the relation between stay-at-home Catholics and their exiled brethren. Stay-at-home Catholics adhered tenaciously to an indigenous version of their faith that they saw as being threatened as much by imported forms of Catholicism as by Protestant innovations. The second part of the chapter turns looks at the reign of Mary and Philip as a time when some of the key concepts of English Catholic nationalism were formulated.
Jan Hoffman French
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807832929
- eISBN:
- 9781469605777
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807889886_french.7
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
The people who would become the Xocó Indians and the quilombolas of Mocambo share a common backland history, culture, and politics—all of which came to be mobilized and revised by them in the years ...
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The people who would become the Xocó Indians and the quilombolas of Mocambo share a common backland history, culture, and politics—all of which came to be mobilized and revised by them in the years since the first discussions of possible indigenous identity in the early 1970s. This chapter describes that common heritage and identifies the contradictory character of the place and culture of the rural hinterland that is known as the sertão. It shows how these historical contradictions informed and enabled the differentiation and legalization of Indian and black identities in a place where ethnoracial mixture has been, and continues to be, the operative assumption.Less
The people who would become the Xocó Indians and the quilombolas of Mocambo share a common backland history, culture, and politics—all of which came to be mobilized and revised by them in the years since the first discussions of possible indigenous identity in the early 1970s. This chapter describes that common heritage and identifies the contradictory character of the place and culture of the rural hinterland that is known as the sertão. It shows how these historical contradictions informed and enabled the differentiation and legalization of Indian and black identities in a place where ethnoracial mixture has been, and continues to be, the operative assumption.
Sarah Maddison
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479898992
- eISBN:
- 9781479806799
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479898992.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
This chapter considers the contemporary implications for Indigenous peoples attempting to both recover and rebuild their nations while simultaneously asserting a political voice that often transcends ...
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This chapter considers the contemporary implications for Indigenous peoples attempting to both recover and rebuild their nations while simultaneously asserting a political voice that often transcends precolonial national borders. Focused mainly on the Australian case, it also draws comparisons with Indigenous peoples in Canada and the United States in considering the challenges of trying to develop a pan-Indigenous political identity in a colonial/postcolonial nation that has never recognized the borders of Indigenous nations. Implicit in this analysis is an understanding of the deep and wide-ranging diversity of Indigenous life and culture, both within Australia and elsewhere in the world. Despite this diversity, however, the category of indigeneity still functions to denote a political solidarity among colonized peoples, including with regard to their precolonial borders, such as is evident at the United Nations through the development on the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.Less
This chapter considers the contemporary implications for Indigenous peoples attempting to both recover and rebuild their nations while simultaneously asserting a political voice that often transcends precolonial national borders. Focused mainly on the Australian case, it also draws comparisons with Indigenous peoples in Canada and the United States in considering the challenges of trying to develop a pan-Indigenous political identity in a colonial/postcolonial nation that has never recognized the borders of Indigenous nations. Implicit in this analysis is an understanding of the deep and wide-ranging diversity of Indigenous life and culture, both within Australia and elsewhere in the world. Despite this diversity, however, the category of indigeneity still functions to denote a political solidarity among colonized peoples, including with regard to their precolonial borders, such as is evident at the United Nations through the development on the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
S. Ashley Kistler
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038358
- eISBN:
- 9780252096228
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038358.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Latin American Cultural Anthropology
As cultural mediators, Chamelco's market women offer a model of contemporary Q'eqchi' identity grounded in the strength of the Maya historical legacy. Guatemala's Maya communities have faced nearly ...
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As cultural mediators, Chamelco's market women offer a model of contemporary Q'eqchi' identity grounded in the strength of the Maya historical legacy. Guatemala's Maya communities have faced nearly five hundred years of constant challenges to their culture, from colonial oppression to the instability of violent military dictatorships and the advent of new global technologies. In spite of this history, the people of San Juan Chamelco, Guatemala, have effectively resisted significant changes to their cultural identities. Chamelco residents embrace new technologies, ideas, and resources to strengthen their indigenous identities and maintain Maya practice in the 21st century, a resilience that sets Chamelco apart from other Maya towns. Unlike the region's other indigenous women, Chamelco's Q'eqchi' market women achieve both prominence and visibility as vendors, dominating social domains from religion to local politics. These women honor their families' legacies through continuation of the inherited, high-status marketing trade. This book describes how market women gain social standing as mediators of sometimes conflicting realities, harnessing the forces of global capitalism to revitalize Chamelco's indigenous identity. Working at the intersections of globalization, kinship, gender, and memory, the book presents a firsthand look at Maya markets as a domain in which the values of capitalism and indigenous communities meet.Less
As cultural mediators, Chamelco's market women offer a model of contemporary Q'eqchi' identity grounded in the strength of the Maya historical legacy. Guatemala's Maya communities have faced nearly five hundred years of constant challenges to their culture, from colonial oppression to the instability of violent military dictatorships and the advent of new global technologies. In spite of this history, the people of San Juan Chamelco, Guatemala, have effectively resisted significant changes to their cultural identities. Chamelco residents embrace new technologies, ideas, and resources to strengthen their indigenous identities and maintain Maya practice in the 21st century, a resilience that sets Chamelco apart from other Maya towns. Unlike the region's other indigenous women, Chamelco's Q'eqchi' market women achieve both prominence and visibility as vendors, dominating social domains from religion to local politics. These women honor their families' legacies through continuation of the inherited, high-status marketing trade. This book describes how market women gain social standing as mediators of sometimes conflicting realities, harnessing the forces of global capitalism to revitalize Chamelco's indigenous identity. Working at the intersections of globalization, kinship, gender, and memory, the book presents a firsthand look at Maya markets as a domain in which the values of capitalism and indigenous communities meet.
Florence E. Babb
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780520298163
- eISBN:
- 9780520970410
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520298163.003.0010
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Latin American Cultural Anthropology
Theorizations of gender and race in Latin America have led to wide-ranging views concerning women and men in subaltern groups, whether indigenous or Afro-descendant, rural or urban. Views are ...
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Theorizations of gender and race in Latin America have led to wide-ranging views concerning women and men in subaltern groups, whether indigenous or Afro-descendant, rural or urban. Views are similarly wide ranging when theorizing turns to the implications of tourism development for subaltern peoples in the region. Just as it is customary to emphasize the historically subordinate status of women and racial minorities in Latin America, so too it is customary to show that tourism in the neoliberal era has particularly harsh consequences for these marginalized social sectors. At a time of indigenous mobilization, increasing migration, and urbanization, we must recognize the complex and often surprising ways in which gender, race, and tourism intertwine. Ethnographic cases from Andean Peru and Chiapas, Mexico, suggest that indigenous women play more or less prominent roles in tourism depending on several factors, with women who are active in the wider society holding more substantial positions in community-based cultural tourism.Less
Theorizations of gender and race in Latin America have led to wide-ranging views concerning women and men in subaltern groups, whether indigenous or Afro-descendant, rural or urban. Views are similarly wide ranging when theorizing turns to the implications of tourism development for subaltern peoples in the region. Just as it is customary to emphasize the historically subordinate status of women and racial minorities in Latin America, so too it is customary to show that tourism in the neoliberal era has particularly harsh consequences for these marginalized social sectors. At a time of indigenous mobilization, increasing migration, and urbanization, we must recognize the complex and often surprising ways in which gender, race, and tourism intertwine. Ethnographic cases from Andean Peru and Chiapas, Mexico, suggest that indigenous women play more or less prominent roles in tourism depending on several factors, with women who are active in the wider society holding more substantial positions in community-based cultural tourism.
Kristina M. Jacobsen
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781469631868
- eISBN:
- 9781469631882
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469631868.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
In this ethnography of Navajo (Diné) popular music culture, Kristina M. Jacobsen examines questions of Indigenous identity and performance by focusing on the surprising and vibrant Navajo country ...
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In this ethnography of Navajo (Diné) popular music culture, Kristina M. Jacobsen examines questions of Indigenous identity and performance by focusing on the surprising and vibrant Navajo country music scene. Through multiple first-person accounts, Jacobsen illuminates country music’s connections to the Indigenous politics of language and belonging, examining through the lens of music both the politics of difference and many internal distinctions Diné make among themselves and their fellow Navajo citizens.
As the second largest tribe in the United States, the Navajo have often been portrayed as a singular and monolithic entity. Using her experience as a singer, lap steel player, and Navajo language learner, Jacobsen challenges this notion, showing how cultural intimacy and generational nostalgia play key roles in the ways Navajos distinguish themselves from one another through musical taste, linguistic abilities, geographic location, physical appearance, degree of Navajo or Indian blood, and class affiliations. By linking cultural anthropology to ethnomusicology, linguistic anthropology, and critical Indigenous studies, Jacobsen shows how Navajo poetics and politics offer important insights into the politics of Indigeneity in Native North America, highlighting the complex ways that identities are negotiated in multiple, often contradictory, spheres.Less
In this ethnography of Navajo (Diné) popular music culture, Kristina M. Jacobsen examines questions of Indigenous identity and performance by focusing on the surprising and vibrant Navajo country music scene. Through multiple first-person accounts, Jacobsen illuminates country music’s connections to the Indigenous politics of language and belonging, examining through the lens of music both the politics of difference and many internal distinctions Diné make among themselves and their fellow Navajo citizens.
As the second largest tribe in the United States, the Navajo have often been portrayed as a singular and monolithic entity. Using her experience as a singer, lap steel player, and Navajo language learner, Jacobsen challenges this notion, showing how cultural intimacy and generational nostalgia play key roles in the ways Navajos distinguish themselves from one another through musical taste, linguistic abilities, geographic location, physical appearance, degree of Navajo or Indian blood, and class affiliations. By linking cultural anthropology to ethnomusicology, linguistic anthropology, and critical Indigenous studies, Jacobsen shows how Navajo poetics and politics offer important insights into the politics of Indigeneity in Native North America, highlighting the complex ways that identities are negotiated in multiple, often contradictory, spheres.
Daniel Fisher
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814771679
- eISBN:
- 9780814769935
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814771679.003.0003
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This chapter explores how Aboriginal radio producers at FM stations in urban Australia negotiate tensions between their understandings of the voice as a technologically malleable site of expressive ...
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This chapter explores how Aboriginal radio producers at FM stations in urban Australia negotiate tensions between their understandings of the voice as a technologically malleable site of expressive practice and as the foundation of indigenous identity and political agency. Aboriginal Australians have been producing radio and building radio stations for just over thirty years. Today many Aboriginal radio stations foster collective reflection on the voice as both social and technical facts, amenable to extensive expressive manipulation, governmental development, and intra-Aboriginal reflection. This chapter examines how the politics and significance of vocal sound emerged from the streets of Brisbane as much as from the studio. It considers how the techniques of radio and its globally mobile musical content make the sounds of Aboriginal voices provocative and problematic. It frames radio as a site of cultural production to show how indigenous radio stations figure as institutions that enable insight into the emergence of a local “voice consciousness.” Finally, it discusses the ethnography of voice mediation.Less
This chapter explores how Aboriginal radio producers at FM stations in urban Australia negotiate tensions between their understandings of the voice as a technologically malleable site of expressive practice and as the foundation of indigenous identity and political agency. Aboriginal Australians have been producing radio and building radio stations for just over thirty years. Today many Aboriginal radio stations foster collective reflection on the voice as both social and technical facts, amenable to extensive expressive manipulation, governmental development, and intra-Aboriginal reflection. This chapter examines how the politics and significance of vocal sound emerged from the streets of Brisbane as much as from the studio. It considers how the techniques of radio and its globally mobile musical content make the sounds of Aboriginal voices provocative and problematic. It frames radio as a site of cultural production to show how indigenous radio stations figure as institutions that enable insight into the emergence of a local “voice consciousness.” Finally, it discusses the ethnography of voice mediation.
Vicente M. Diaz
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824834340
- eISBN:
- 9780824870058
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824834340.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
In the vein of an emergent Native Pacific brand of cultural studies, this book critically examines the cultural and political stakes of the historic and present-day movement to canonize Blessed Diego ...
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In the vein of an emergent Native Pacific brand of cultural studies, this book critically examines the cultural and political stakes of the historic and present-day movement to canonize Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores (1627–1672), the Spanish Jesuit missionary who was martyred by Matå'pang of Guam while establishing the Catholic mission among the Chamorros in the Mariana Islands. The book juxtaposes official, popular, and critical perspectives of the movement to complicate prevailing ideas about colonialism, historiography, and indigenous culture and identity in the Pacific. The book is divided into three sections. The first focuses exclusively on the narratological reconsolidation of official Roman Catholic Church viewpoints as staked in the historic (seventeenth century) and contemporary (twentieth century) movements to canonize San Vitores, including the symbolic costs of these viewpoints for Native Chamorro cultural and political possibilities not in line with Church views. Section two shifts attention and perspective to local, competing forms of Chamorro piety. In their effort to canonize San Vitores, Natives also rework the saint to negotiate new cultural and social canons for themselves and in ways that produce new meanings for their island. The third section moves from official and lay Roman and Chamorro Catholic viewpoints to the author's own critical project of rendering alternative portrayals of San Vitores and Matå'pang. The book melds poststructuralist, feminist, Native studies, and cultural studies analytic and political frameworks with an intensely personal voice to model a new critical interdisciplinary approach to the study of indigenous culture and history.Less
In the vein of an emergent Native Pacific brand of cultural studies, this book critically examines the cultural and political stakes of the historic and present-day movement to canonize Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores (1627–1672), the Spanish Jesuit missionary who was martyred by Matå'pang of Guam while establishing the Catholic mission among the Chamorros in the Mariana Islands. The book juxtaposes official, popular, and critical perspectives of the movement to complicate prevailing ideas about colonialism, historiography, and indigenous culture and identity in the Pacific. The book is divided into three sections. The first focuses exclusively on the narratological reconsolidation of official Roman Catholic Church viewpoints as staked in the historic (seventeenth century) and contemporary (twentieth century) movements to canonize San Vitores, including the symbolic costs of these viewpoints for Native Chamorro cultural and political possibilities not in line with Church views. Section two shifts attention and perspective to local, competing forms of Chamorro piety. In their effort to canonize San Vitores, Natives also rework the saint to negotiate new cultural and social canons for themselves and in ways that produce new meanings for their island. The third section moves from official and lay Roman and Chamorro Catholic viewpoints to the author's own critical project of rendering alternative portrayals of San Vitores and Matå'pang. The book melds poststructuralist, feminist, Native studies, and cultural studies analytic and political frameworks with an intensely personal voice to model a new critical interdisciplinary approach to the study of indigenous culture and history.
Brandy Nālani McDougall and Georganne Nordstrom
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824838959
- eISBN:
- 9780824869496
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824838959.003.0014
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
This chapter examines how Disney’s Aulani Resort, located on O‘ahu’s ‘Ewa coast, has been able to create stories that indigenize and facilitate its corporate colonial presence in Hawai‘i. It ...
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This chapter examines how Disney’s Aulani Resort, located on O‘ahu’s ‘Ewa coast, has been able to create stories that indigenize and facilitate its corporate colonial presence in Hawai‘i. It considers how Disney’s indigenization narratives coincide with themes of simulated native presence and implied native absence, suggesting that Mickey Mouse is yet another ‘iole who consumes, displaces, and dispossesses. It shows that Disney has built its multibillion-dollar business empire by appropriating and distorting the stories of a particular place and/or creating new stories so as to naturalize an agenda of corporate capitalism. It also discusses the ways in which Disneyfication parallels and often incorporates settler colonial constructions of Indigenous peoples as noble savages. Finally, it explains Disney’s tenuous belonging and its implications for Kānaka Maoli Indigenous identity.Less
This chapter examines how Disney’s Aulani Resort, located on O‘ahu’s ‘Ewa coast, has been able to create stories that indigenize and facilitate its corporate colonial presence in Hawai‘i. It considers how Disney’s indigenization narratives coincide with themes of simulated native presence and implied native absence, suggesting that Mickey Mouse is yet another ‘iole who consumes, displaces, and dispossesses. It shows that Disney has built its multibillion-dollar business empire by appropriating and distorting the stories of a particular place and/or creating new stories so as to naturalize an agenda of corporate capitalism. It also discusses the ways in which Disneyfication parallels and often incorporates settler colonial constructions of Indigenous peoples as noble savages. Finally, it explains Disney’s tenuous belonging and its implications for Kānaka Maoli Indigenous identity.
Jane Stafford
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- June 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780199609932
- eISBN:
- 9780191869761
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780199609932.003.0026
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature, Prose (inc. letters, diaries)
This chapter discusses native authors of fiction. Indigenous, colonized, or native authors of fiction in English are rare in the British Empire before 1950. There are exceptions, however, in India, ...
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This chapter discusses native authors of fiction. Indigenous, colonized, or native authors of fiction in English are rare in the British Empire before 1950. There are exceptions, however, in India, there is a body of English-language fiction from the second half of the nineteenth-century onwards. Nevertheless, a sustained presence and the development of a local literary tradition in English were difficult. The short story, published in newspapers and magazines, was a more common though at the same time more ephemeral form than the novel. Native writers authored prose collections of Indigenous myths and legends in English, overtly signalling their authority to do so in terms of their Indigenous identity and the access it entailed.Less
This chapter discusses native authors of fiction. Indigenous, colonized, or native authors of fiction in English are rare in the British Empire before 1950. There are exceptions, however, in India, there is a body of English-language fiction from the second half of the nineteenth-century onwards. Nevertheless, a sustained presence and the development of a local literary tradition in English were difficult. The short story, published in newspapers and magazines, was a more common though at the same time more ephemeral form than the novel. Native writers authored prose collections of Indigenous myths and legends in English, overtly signalling their authority to do so in terms of their Indigenous identity and the access it entailed.
