The rediscovered self indigenous identity and cultural justice

Summary: In a series of thematically linked essays, Ronald Niezen discusses the ways new rights standards and networks of activist collaboration facilitate indigenous claims about culture, adding coherence to their histories, institutions, and group qualities. Drawing on historical, legal, and ethnographic material on aboriginal communities in northern Canada, Niezen illustrates the ways indigenous peoples worldwide are identifying and acting upon new opportunities to further their rights and identities. He shows how - within the constraints of state and international legal systems, activist lobbying strategies, and public ideas and expectations - indigenous leaders are working to overcome the injuries of imposed change, political exclusion, and loss of identity. Taken together, the essays provide a critical understanding of the ways in which people are seeking cultural justice while rearticulating and, at times, re-dignifying the collective self. The Rediscovered Selfshows how, through the processes and aims of justice, distinct ways of life begin to be expressed through new media, formal procedures, and transnational collaborations.

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ISBN: 9780773576742 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0773576746 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780773535299 (bound)
ISBN: 0773535292
ISBN: 0773535306
ISBN: 9780773535305
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xix, 236 pages : illustrations)
Publisher: Montréal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2009

Content descriptions

General Note:	Issued as part of the Canadian Electronic Library publishers collection. Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-226) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	1. Introduction -- 2. Transnational indigenism -- 3. Digital identity -- 4. Culture and the judiciary -- 5. The secrets of exposure -- 6. The politics of suicide -- 7. Therapeutic history -- 8. Conclusion.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Action Note:	digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve