Indigenous textual cultures : reading and writing in the age of global empire

Indigenous textual cultures : reading and writing in the age of global empire / Tony Ballantyne, Lachy Paterson & Angela Wanhalla, editors.

"INDIGENOUS TEXTUAL CULTURES assesses how Indigenous literacy, texts, and orality were related in a range of colonial situations, across three centuries, and the repercussions of these interactions today. Native writers deployed the written word to assert intellectual power within the uneven te...

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Other Authors: Ballantyne, Tony, 1972- (Editor), Paterson, Lachy, 1958- (Editor), Wanhalla, Angela (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Literacy > Social aspects.
Indigenous peoples > Education.
Indigenous peoples > Communication.
Indigenous peoples > Books and reading.
Indigenous peoples > Colonization.
Colonization > Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
Colonization > Social aspects
Indigenous peoples > Communication
Indigenous peoples > Education
Literacy > Social aspects
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Indigenous textual cultures, the politics of difference, and the dynamism of practice / Tony Ballantyne and Lachy Paterson
  • Ka Waihona Palapala Manaleo : research in a time of plenty. Colonialism and the Hawaiian Language Archives / Noelani Arista
  • Kanak writings and written tradition in the Archive of New Caledonia's "1917" War / Alban Bensa and Adrian Muckle
  • Māori literacy practices in colonial New Zealand / Lachy Paterson
  • "Don't destroy the writing" : time- and space-based communication and the colonial strategy of mimicry in nineteenth-century Salish-missionary relations on Canada's Pacific Coast / Keith Thor Carlson
  • Talking traditions : orality, ecology, and spirituality in Mangaia's Textual cultures / Michael P.J. Reilly
  • Polynesian family manuscripts (Puta Tupuna) from the Society and Austral Islands : interior history, formal logic, and social uses / Bruno Saura
  • Print media, the Swahili language, and textual cultures in twentieth century Tanzania, c.1923-1939 / Emma Hunter
  • Going off script : Aboriginal rejection and repurposing of English literacies / Laura Rademaker
  • "Read it, don't smoke it"! Developing and maintaining literacy in Papua New Guinea / Evelyn Ellerman
  • Colonial copyright, customs, and Indigenous textualities : literary authority and textual citzenship / Isabel Hofmeyr
  • He Pukapuka Tataku i ngā Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui : reading Te Rauparaha through time / Arini Loader
  • Writing and beyond in Indigenous North America : The Occom network / Ivy Schweitzer.

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