Returns : Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (377 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- Part I -- 1. Among Histories -- 2. Indigenous Articulations -- 3. Varieties of Indigenous Experience -- Part II -- 4. Ishi's Story -- Part III -- 5. Hau'ofa's Hope -- 6. Looking Several Ways -- 7. Second Life: The Return of the Masks -- Epilogue -- References -- Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Returns--third in a trilogy--explores the ways people recover and renew their roots. James Clifford looks at native peoples who have become not victims but inventive agents of a tangled, open-ended modernity. Their returns to the land, performances of heritage, and diasporic ties are strategies for moving toward "traditional futures.".
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Indigenous peoples. Indigenous peoples-Ethnic identity. Indigenous peoples-Social life and customs. Cultural fusion.