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Informationen zum Autor Stephanie Nohelani Teves is an assistant professor of ethnic studies and women's and gender studies at the University of Oregon. She was also a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. Andrea Smith is an associate professor in ethnic studies and media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside. Her areas of research include Native studies, religious studies, legal studies, gender studies, and social movements. Michelle Raheja is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, where she researches Native American literature, with a special interest in autobiography and film visual culture. Klappentext Explores selected concepts in Native studies and the words commonly used to describe them! words whose meanings have been insufficiently examined. This edited volume focuses on the following eight concepts: sovereignty! land! indigeneity! nation! blood! tradition! colonialism! and indigenous knowledge. Each section includes three or four essays and provides definitions! meanings! and significance to the concept. Zusammenfassung "This is an edited volume that provides definitions! meanings! and significances of select key concepts often used in Native studies. These concepts include: sovereignty! land! indigeneity! nations! blood! tradition! colonialism! and indigenous epistemologies/knowledges. The manuscript is divided into eight sections! and each section includes three or four essays about one of the concepts. The essays provide an historical! social! and political context for the concepts and indicate how they have been drawn upon by scholars of Native studies."--Provided by the publisher.

Product details

• Authors: Stephanie Nohelani (EDT)/ Smith Teves
• Assisted by: Michelle Raheja (Editor), Andrea Smith (Editor), Stephanie Nohelani Teves (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.05.2015
• EAN: 9780816531509
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-3150-9
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Critical Issues in Indigenous; Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies; Critical Issues in Indigenous; Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Sociology, Soziolinguistik, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies