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Description for First Peoples
Paperback. Rather than being absorbed into a uniform modernity, indigenous people are anticipating alternative futures and appropriating global resources for their own, culturally specific needs. This book argues, controversially, that far from disappearing in the face of global capitalism, indigenous cultures today are as diverse as they ever were. Series: FOCI S. Num Pages: 176 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 11. Weight in Grams: 248.
"First Peoples" argues, controversially, that far from disappearing in the face of global capitalism, indigenous cultures today are as diverse as they ever were. Rather than being absorbed into a uniform modernity, indigenous people are anticipating alternative futures and appropriating global resources for their own, culturally specific needs. For Sissons, however, the traditional and the modern are not mutually exclusive: indigenous cultures and nation-states are aspects of the same contemporary condition, and their apparently opposing position is an expression of the contradictory nature of modernity in the 21st century. Indigenous people often define themselves in terms of their struggle against ... Read more
"First Peoples" argues, controversially, that far from disappearing in the face of global capitalism, indigenous cultures today are as diverse as they ever were. Rather than being absorbed into a uniform modernity, indigenous people are anticipating alternative futures and appropriating global resources for their own, culturally specific needs. For Sissons, however, the traditional and the modern are not mutually exclusive: indigenous cultures and nation-states are aspects of the same contemporary condition, and their apparently opposing position is an expression of the contradictory nature of modernity in the 21st century. Indigenous people often define themselves in terms of their struggle against ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Series
FOCI S.
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861892416
SKU
V9781861892416
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Ref
99-5
About Jeff Sissons
Jeffrey Sissons is Professor in Social Anthropology at the School of Global Studies, Massey University, New Zealand.
Reviews for First Peoples
'Jeffrey Sissons' short but lucid book describes what he sees as a major revival of Indigenous culture in the settler nations of the New World ... He astutely observes the need for reconstructed notions of self-determination that escape the binary of traditional/modern, and offer Indigenous peoples and the non-Indigenous fellow citizens new ways to think about the expanding urban populations ... Read more