444 pages
40 photographs, 11 illustrations, 1 map, 1 figure, index
“Performing Indigeneity lays out a sophisticated treatment of the cross-cultural politics embodied in the productive but hard-to-define category ‘indigeneity.’ Laura Graham and Glenn Penny’s ground-breaking collection brilliantly guides readers through the emergence and renegotiation of such tropes as cultural heritage, human rights, environment, and aboriginality.”—Philip J. Deloria, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor of History and American Culture at the University of Michigan and author of Indians in Unexpected Places
“One is not born indigenous. That’s the far-reaching upshot of this remarkable collection, which radically expands our notion of indigeneity. Along with their collaborators, Laura Graham and Glenn Penny break with any sense of essential selfhood, giving us a performative and dialogic concept that sees the indigenous as a creative space of collective imagination.”—Matti Bunzl, professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois
“This terrific set of essays brings together some of the best and freshest thinking in a field burgeoning with creativity. Native arts and activism are flourishing, and so are interdisciplinary conversations about Indigeneity. Every chapter offers surprises: gems of insight from unexpected angles. This is a bold step forward.”—Beth A. Conklin, chair of the Department of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University and author of Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Performing Indigeneity: Emergent Identity, Self-Determination, and Sovereignty
Laura R. Graham and H. Glenn Penny
2. Living Traditions: A Manifesto for Critical Indigeneity
Bernard Perley
3. Culture Claims: Being Maasai at the United Nations
Dorothy L. Hodgson
4. A White Face for the Cofán Nation? Randy Borman and the Ambivalence of Indigeneity
Michael L. Cepek
5. Performed Alliances and Performative Identities: Tupinamba in the Kingdom of France
Beatriz Perrone-Moisés
6. Rethinking Sami Agency during Living Exhibitions: From the Age of Empire to the Postwar World
Cathrine Baglo
7. Not Playing Indian: Surrogate Indigeneity and the German Hobbyist Scene
H. Glenn Penny
8. The Return of Kū? Re-membering Hawaiian Masculinity, Warriorhood, and Nation
Ty P. Kāwika Tengan
9. Bone-Deep Indigeneity: Theorizing Hawaiian Care for the State and Its Broken Apparatuses
Greg Johnson
10. Haka: Colonized Physicality, Body-Logic, and Embodied Sovereignty
Brendan Hokowhitu
11. Genders of Xavante Ethnographic Spectacle: Cultural Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Brazil
Laura R. Graham
12. Showing Too Much or Too Little: Predicaments of Painting Indigenous Presence in Central Australia
Fred Myers
13. Cities: Indigeneity and Belonging
Mark K. Watson
Contributors
Index
