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This book explores performance and knowledge of the indigenous people from all continents of the world. It looks at their issues and ideas of imagination, creativity, performance, arts, music, dance, oral traditions, and aesthetics in North America, South America, Australia, East-Asia and India from cultural, historical and aesthetic viewpoints.

This book deals with the language and orality of the indigenous people from Asia, Australia, North America and South America. It looks at oral transmission of memory and culture, literary production and transmission, the nature of creativity of indigenous communities, the risk of a complete decline of their languages and conservation attempts.

This book explores performance and knowledge of the indigenous people from all continents of the world. It looks at their issues and ideas of imagination, creativity, performance, arts, music, dance, oral traditions, and aesthetics in North America, South America, Australia, East-Asia and India from cultural, historical and aesthetic viewpoints.

This book deals with the language and orality of the indigenous people from Asia, Australia, North America and South America. It looks at oral transmission of memory and culture, literary production and transmission, the nature of creativity of indigenous communities, the risk of a complete decline of their languages and conservation attempts.

This book deals with the two key concepts of indigeneity and nation of the indigenous people from across the world. It looks at issues and ideas of indigeneity, nationhood, nationality, State, identity, selfhood, constitutionalism, and citizenship in Africa, North America, New Zealand, Pacific Islands and Oceania, India, and Southeast Asia.

This book deals with the two key concepts of gender and rights of the indigenous people from all continents of the world. It looks at issues of indigenous human rights, gender justice, repression, resistance, resurgence and government policies in Canada, Latin America, North America, Australia, India, Brazil, South East Asia and Africa.

This book deals with the two key concepts of gender and rights of the indigenous people from all continents of the world. It looks at issues of indigenous human rights, gender justice, repression, resistance, resurgence and government policies in Canada, Latin America, North America, Australia, India, Brazil, South East Asia and Africa.

Part of the Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies series, this book deals with environment and belief systems of the indigenous people from all continents of the world. It explores indigenous perspectives related to religion, ritual and cultural practice, art and design, natural resources as well as climate change impacts.

The volume traces the theme of the loss of indigenous language and culture in numerous post-colonial contexts. It has contributions from scholars across the globe who form a consensus to establish that various traditional and specialized languages, art forms, skills, heritages, scripts are depleting at an increasing rate due to influences of modernization.

The volume traces the theme of the loss of indigenous language and culture in numerous post-colonial contexts. It has contributions from scholars across the globe who form a consensus to establish that various traditional and specialized languages, art forms, skills, heritages, scripts are depleting at an increasing rate due to influences of modernization.

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Narrating Nomadism presents a penetrating account of the survival challenges faced by nomadic communities, as expressed in their arts and literature. Dealing with themes ranging from literary criticism and art history to ethnography, cultural anthropology and socio-linguistics, the book focuses on the negotiation of discrimination and challenge by nomadic communities and their culture in the present times.

Performing Identities brings together essays by scholars, artists and activists engaged in understanding and conserving rapidly disappearing local knowledge forms of indigenous communities across continents. It depicts the imaginative transactions evident in the interface of identity and cultural transformation, raising the issue of cultural rights of these otherwise marginalized communities.

Knowing Differently provides a comprehensive account of the worldviews nurtured and sustained by indigenous communities across the world through their distinctive understanding ¿ of space and time, joy and pain, life and death, the epistemological clash with the `scientific¿ or `modern¿ world, along with consequences for their identity, survival and cultural transformation.