Performing Indigeneity

Global Histories and Contemporary Experiences

Laura R. Graham, H. Glenn Penny

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9780803271951
• eBook ISBN:
  9780803274167
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Native American Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

This engaging collection of essays discusses the complexities of “being” indigenous in public spaces. Laura R. Graham and H. Glenn Penny bring together a set of highly recognized junior and senior scholars, including indigenous scholars, from a variety of fields to provoke critical thinking about the many ways in which individuals and social groups construct and display unique identities around the world. The case studies in Performing Indigeneity underscore the social, historical, and immediate contextual factors at play when indigenous people make decisions about when, how, why, and who can “be” indigenous in public spaces.
  Performing Indigeneity invites readers to consider how groups and individuals think about performance and display and focuses attention on the ways that public spheres, both indigenous and nonindigenous ones, have received these performances. The essays demonstrate that performance and display are essential to the creation and persistence of indigeneity, while also presenting the conundrum that in many cases “indigeneity” excludes some of the voices or identities that the category purports to represent.
   

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Performing Indigeneity: Emergent Identity, Self-Determination, and Sovereignty
• 2. Living Traditions: A Manifesto for Critical Indigeneity
• 3. Culture Claims: Being Maasai at the United Nations
• 4. A White Face for the Cofán Nation?: Randy Borman and the Ambivalence of Indigeneity
• 5. Performed Alliances and Performative Identities: Tupinamba in the Kingdom of France
• 6. Rethinking Sami Agency during Living Exhibitions: From the Age of Empire to the Postwar World
• 7. Not Playing Indian: Surrogate Indigeneity and the German Hobbyist Scene
• 8. The Return of Kū?: Re-membering Hawaiian Masculinity, Warriorhood, and Nation
• 9. Bone-Deep Indigeneity: Theorizing Hawaiian Care for the State and Its Broken Apparatuses
• 10. Haka: Colonized Physicality, Body-Logic, and Embodied Sovereignty
• 11. Genders of Xavante Ethnographic Spectacle: Cultural Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Brazil
• 12. Showing Too Much or Too Little: Predicaments of Painting Indigenous Presence in Central Australia
• 13. Cities: Indigeneity and Belonging
• Contributors
• Index
• About Laura R. Graham
• About H. Glenn Penny