Remediating Cartographies of Erasure: Anthropology, Indigenous Epistemologies, and the Global Imaginary

Remediating Cartographies of Erasure brings together leading sociocultural and linguistic anthropologists to explore the moral imperatives of anthropology as a discipline to contribute to the self-determination and equality of Indigenous peoples around the globe. This engaged collaboration highlights the partnerships between Indigenous communities and anthropology as a mutually respectful and emancipatory practice of Indigenous and anthropological epistemologies. Indigenous scholars from New Zealand, the United States, and Canada and non-Indigenous scholars from Australia, the United States, and Canada each provide concrete examples of how researchers actualize the moral imperative to work with Indigenous peoples in ways that foster their human rights and self-determination. The contributors discuss anthropological work done in Canada, the United States, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Honduras, Australia, Sardinia, and New Zealand. In laying out a world anthropology, this volume demonstrates the rectification practices of Indigenous peoples and continues anthropology’s long-standing advocacy for social justice and human rights around the globe.  

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Remediating Cartographies of Erasure Bernard C. Perley Part 1. New Zealand 1. Māori and the Crown: Obstructing Indigenous Identity in Aotearoa–New Zealand Marama Muru-Lanning Part 2. Australia 2. Belonging in the Country: The Mythic Landscape of Australian Monoculturalism Patrick Sullivan 3. Remaking the World: A Partial Account of Warlpiri Meditations of Place under Settler-Colonial Rule Melinda Hinkson Part 3. Europe 4. Trickster Gastronomy: Eating the Earth and Resisting Dispossession on a Mediterranean Island Tracey Heatherington Part 4. Central America 5. “There Is Nothing to Celebrate”: Communal Land Titling and the Paradoxes of Indigenous Rights for Honduran Garifuna Keri Vacanti Brondo Part 5. North America 6. The Semiotic Reemergence of Cherokee Country Margaret Bender, Thomas N. Belt, and Hartwell Francis 7. Bordering on the Absurd: Colonial Cartographies, Maliseet Identities, and Phenomenal States Bernard C. Perley Part 6. South America 8. Thematic Maps as a Strategy of Landscape Reinscription: The Alto PerenÉ AshÉninka Remediation Project Elena Mihas 9. Bolivia’s Gas Boom and the Guarani: Remediation and Erasure during the Government of Evo Morales Bret Gustafson 10. Mebengokre Kayapo Mapping as Graphic Oratory: Cartography as Historical and Ecological Basis of Territorial Claims Terence Turner Contributors Index

About the Author :
Bernard C. Perley (Tobique Maliseet) is a professor and the director of the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He is the author of Defying Maliseet Language Death: Emergent Vitalities of Language, Culture, and Identity in Eastern Canada (Nebraska, 2011) and a coeditor of Anthropological Theory for the Twenty-First Century: A Critical Approach and Language and Social Justice: Global Perspectives.    

Review :
“The scholars featured in this volume represent an excellent cross section of engaged and engaging thinkers, . . . bold and insightful. One of the book’s main contributions is the challenge it sets for readers to look again at what it is they thought they knew through a new lens of inquiry. In this spirit, it will be of wide interest to human geographers as well as anthropologists and Indigenous studies scholars.”-Mark K. Watson, author of Japan’s Ainu Minority in Tokyo: Diasporic Indigeneity and Urban Politics