Indigenous Communalism
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Indigenous Communalism by Carolyn Smith-Morris
Conveys age-old lessons about culture, communalism, and the universal tension between the individual and the collective. This book is also a critical ethnography challenging the moral and cultural assumptions of a hyper-individualist, twenty-first century global society.
“Indigenous Communalism can serve as an introduction to those interested in indigenous studies, southern epistemologies, and decolonial thinking, as a resource for moving forward contemporary social theory, and as a complement to global south proposals by showing that it is in the complex realm of hybridity and diversity where struggles for sense making take place”— César Abadía-Barrero, author of I Have AIDS but I am Happy: Children’s Subjectivities, AIDS and Social Responses in Brazil
“Inspiring and thought provoking, Indigenous Communalism is both an innovative ethnography of communalism and collectivist life and a conveyor of critical hope for our times. We move with the author along a compelling journey committed to Indigenous rights but also to viewing humanity’s future through the lens of Indigeneity, open to the possibility (if not necessity) of transforming the divisive politics that defines our individualist age into a more socially just communalist world.”— Mark K. Watson, author of Japan’s Ainu Minority in Tokyo: Diasporic Indigeneity and Urban Politics
“Inspiring and thought provoking, Indigenous Communalism is both an innovative ethnography of communalism and collectivist life and a conveyor of critical hope for our times. We move with the author along a compelling journey committed to Indigenous rights but also to viewing humanity’s future through the lens of Indigeneity, open to the possibility (if not necessity) of transforming the divisive politics that defines our individualist age into a more socially just communalist world.”— Mark K. Watson, author of Japan’s Ainu Minority in Tokyo: Diasporic Indigeneity and Urban Politics
Carolyn Smith-Morris is an associate professor of anthropology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. She is the author of Diabetes among the Pima, editor of Diagnostic Controversy: Cultural Perspectives on Competing Knowledge in Healthcare, and co-editor of Chronic Conditions, Fluid States: Chronicity and the Anthropology of Illness.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781978805415 |
| ISBN 10 | 1978805411 |
| Title | Indigenous Communalism |
| Author | Carolyn Smith-Morris |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
| Year published | 2019-10-18 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
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