Ballantyne / Paterson / Wanhalla Indigenous Textual Cultures

Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-1234-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 367 Seiten

The contributors to Indigenous Textual Cultures examined the ways in which indigenous peoples created textual cultures to navigate, shape, and contest empire, colonialism, and modernity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ballantyne, Tony

Paterson, Lachy

Wanhalla, Angela

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements ix
Introduction. Indigenous Textual Cultures, the Politics of Difference, and the Dynamism of Practice / Tony Ballantyne and Lachy Paterson 1
Part I. Archives and Debates
1. Ka Waihona Palapala Maneleo: Research in a Time of Plenty. Colonialism and the Hawaiian-Language Archives / Noelani Arista 31
2. Kanak Writings and Written Tradition in the Archive of New Caledonia's 1917 War / Alban Bensa and Adrian Muckle 60
3. Maori Lteracy Practices in Colonial New Zealand / Lachy Paterson 80
Part II. Orality and Texts
4. "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
5. Talking Traditions: Orality, Ecology, and Spirituality in Mangaia's Textual Culture / Michael P. J. Reilly 131
6. Polynesian Family Manuscripts (Puta Tuana) from the Society and Austral Islands: Interior History, Formal Logic, and Social Uses / Bruno Saura 154
Part III. Readers
7. Print Media, the Swahili Language, and Textual Cultures in Twentieth-Century Tanzania, ca. 1923–1939 / Emma Hunter 175
8. Going Off Script: Aboriginal Rejection and Repurposing of English Literacies / Laura Radmaker 195
9. "Read It, Don't Smoke It!": Developing and Maintaining Literacy in Papua New Guinea / Evelyn Ellerman 216
Part IV. Writers
10. Colonial Copyright, Customs, and Indigenous Textualities: Literary Authority and Textual Citizenship / Isabel Hofmeyr 245
11. He Pukapuka Tataku i nga Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui: Reading Te Rauparaha through Time / Arini Loader 263
12. Writing and Beyond in Indigenous North America: The Occom Network / Ivy Schweitzer 289
Bibliography 315
Contributors 345
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tony Ballantyne is Pro-Vice-Chancellor in the Division of Humanities at the University of Otago in New Zealand. His many books include Entanglements of Empire: Missionaries, Maori, and the Question of the Body, also published by Duke University Press.

Lachy Paterson is Professor at the University of Otago's Te Tumu School of Maori, Pacific, and Indigenous Studies.

Angela Wanhalla is Associate Professor of History at the University of Otago.