Anthropologists, Indigenous Scholars and the Research Endeavour: Seeking Bridges Towards Mutual Respect

313 Pages·2012·3.498 MB·English

by  Joy Hendry, Laara Fitznor (eds.)

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Anthropologists, Indigenous Scholars
and the Research Endeavour
Routledge Studies in Anthropology
1 Student Mobility and
Narrative in Europe
The New Strangers
Elizabeth Murphy-Lejeune
2 The Question of the Gift
Essays across Disciplines
Edited by Mark Osteen
3 Decolonising Indigenous Rights
Edited by Adolfo de Oliveira
4 Traveling Spirits
Migrants, Markets and Mobilities
Edited by Gertrud Hüwelmeier
and Kristine Krause
5 Anthropologists, Indigenous
Scholars and the Research
Endeavour
Seeking Bridges Towards
Mutual Respect
Edited by Joy Hendry
and Laara Fitznor
Anthropologists, Indigenous
Scholars and the Research
Endeavour
Seeking Bridges Towards Mutual Respect
Edited by Joy Hendry and Laara Fitznor
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Contents
List of Figures ix
Acknowledgments xi
Note on the Use of Capitalisation in the Text xiii
Introduction 1
JOY HENDRY AND LAARA FITZNOR
PART I
History of the Divergence and Some Ideas for Reconciliation
1 Felavai, Interweaving Indigeneity and Anthropology:
The Era of Indigenising Anthropology 21
TĒVITA O. KA’ILI
2 Mpambo Afrikan Multiversity, Dialogue and Building
Bridges Across Worldviews, Cultures and Languages 28
PAULO WANGOOLA
3 The Ainu in the Ethnographic Triad:
From the Described to the Describer 44
TAKAMI KUWAYAMA
4 On the Relations Between Anthropology and Minority Studies
in China: Historical Development and Cultural Changes 55
BATEER CHEN
5 Verrier Elwin’s Tribal World and the
Tribal View of Elwin’s World 66
GANESH DEVY
vi Contributors
6 India’s Adivasis (Indigenous/Tribal Peoples)
and Anthropological Heritage 80
DANIEL J. RYCROFT
7 Social Anthropology, Nativeness and Basque Studies 94
KEPA FERNÁNDEZ DE LARRINOA
PART II
Science and Epistemology
8 Indigenous Science and Sustainable Community Development 109
GREGORY A. CAJETE
9 Traditional Knowledge and Western Science 118
F. DAVID PEAT
10 Negotiating Contradictory Information
in Chinese Medicine Practice 128
TRINA WARD
11 On Knowing and Not Knowing:
The Many Valuations of Piaroa Indigenous Knowledge 138
SERENA HECKLER
PART III
Indigenous Heritage and Post-Colonial Museology
12 Building the New Nairobi Museum: Perspectives on Post-
Colonialism in an African National Museum Sector 157
HASSAN WARIO ARERO
13 Post-Colonial or Pre-Colonial:
Indigenous Values and Repatriation 162
CARA KRMPOTICH
14 The Diaspora and the Return: History and
Memory in Cape York Peninsula, Australia 171
MARCIA LANGTON
Contributors vii
15 Material Bridges: Objects, Museums
and New Indigeneity in the Caribbean 185
WAYNE MODEST
PART IV
The Senses as a Way of Knowing and Communicating
16 Uncovering the Sensory Experience 199
REBECCA KIDDLE
17 Moko Māori: An Understanding of Pain 208
NGAHUIA TE AWEKOTUKU
18 Sounding Out Indigenous Knowledge in Okinawa 226
RUPERT COX AND KOZO HIRAMATSU
19 Cultures, Senses and the Design of Public Space 236
IAN BENTLEY, LAM LEI BONNIE KWOK AND REGINA MAPUA LIM
PART V
Writing and Other Forms of Dissemination
20 Culture and the Built Environment: Involving Anthropology
and Indigenous/Native Studies for Creating Better Places 253
REGINA MAPUA LIM
21 Indigenous Scholars and Writing through
Narratives and Storying for Healing and Bridging 270
LAARA FITZNOR
Contributors 285
Index 291

Figures
1.1. Classical kupesi—geometrical pattern found in Tonga. 22
3.1 The classic type of the ethnographic triad. 48
3.2 The transitional type of the ethnographic triad. 49
3.3 The native type of the ethnographic triad. 50
15.1 Model of Taino wooden Sculpture at the Taino Museum,
Jamaica. 187
15.2 Jamaican Coat of Arms showing images of Taino male and
female on fl anking shield. 193
16.1 Becky Kiddle, dressed in Highland dancing costume. 200
16.2 Airport Electronic Powhiri Screens. 203
16.3 Mount Victoria Tunnel. 204
16.4 Greening of Adelaide Road, Wellington. 205
16.5 Street cinema: Taranaki Street, Wellington. 206
19.1 A general view of Bonn Square before the competition. 237
19.2 Key qualities of urban life to be supported through design. 240
19.3 Decision matrix. 241
19.4 The Oxford/Bonn “twinning stone.” 242
19.5 Overall plan of the competition scheme. 244
19.6 Model of the competition scheme. 245
19.7 The quiet corner. 246
19.8 Children’s ideas for bird boxes. 247
20.1 Tagbanwa image of tree planted in the middle of the road in
Ancestral land, Coron Island, Philippines. 256
20.2 Shrine to ritual feasting: Chuno horn display in Sadanga,
Mountain Province, Philippines. 256
20.3 The identity sphere diagram. 258
20.4 Bridging the gap between traditional settlements and
development policy makers. 259
20.5 Tagbanwa respondents who contributed oral testimonies. 260