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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Indianness"”.
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Mediating alterity: Transitive Indianness in U.S. non-normative medicine
… Focusing on the strategic deployment of gendered Indianness and subsequently latinidad, “Mediating Alterity” builds on theories of transits, boundaries, expectation and anomaly, as well as hybridity and mestizaje to consider inclusion, commodification, and multiculturalism in the context of U.S. …
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The (De)construction of 'Indianness' at Writing-On-Stone Provincial Park
This thesis surveys the role which 'Indianness' has played at rock art sites in Canada. The emphasis is on how the generally negative colonial creation of 'the Indian,' especially after Confederation, has penetrated non-Native opinion in entertainment, which helped spread 'the Indian' image through …
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Staging Identity: The Co-Construction of Whiteness and Indianness in the Drama of Tomson Highway
… that the hidden pole in the construction of Indianness is co-construction of Whiteness. In order for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples to fully understand and overcome racist stereotypes, it is necessary to understand the role of Whiteness in the construction of Indigenous peoples as …
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Becoming Legible: The Racial Making of the Negro Mascogo/Black Seminole People in the Coahuila–Texas Borderland
… in the position to choose between Blackness and Indianness, doing violence to the ways they understand themselves. However, this apparent paradox does not completely negate the possibility of Black-Indianness. Negros Mascogos/Black Seminoles have understood the double bind and have made their …
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"""&Iquest;que Va a Pasar Con Los Indios Cuando Todos Seamos Indios?"" Ethnic Rights and Reindianization in Southwestern Colombian Amazonia"
As the reindianization process (a generic Indianness) transforms into a reethnization (particularizing and specific) one, the regional terrain hosted a competition of identity politics that unveiled an extraordinary and hierarchical diversity of subject positions, social experiences and cultural …
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Unpicking a Feeling: Interrogating the role of heritage in indigenous collective identity formation on the Caribbean island of Bonaire
… heritage interact, this work applies theories of Indianness, a felt identity based on the adaptation of indigenous populations to a dominant society. Through the critical analysis of interview data in the context of a heritage survey and a historical analysis, this paper finds that heritage and …
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The native artistic subject and national identity : a cultural analysis of the architecture of the Canadian Museum of Civilization, designed by Douglas J. Cardinal
… whose characteristic features have been its 'Indianness', the dissertation seeks to understand why a conflation of these two idioms, Land and 'Indianness', is seen to appeal to Canadians at this postmodern moment. The role of Douglas Cardinal, architect of the Museum, is examined in terms of …
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Representations of migrant and nation in selected works of Rohinton Mistry and Salman Rushdie
… principles of the Indian nation, and notions of Indianness, the rise of communalism in general and Hindu nationalism in particular, and the renaming of Bombay as Mumbai. My readings foreground the necessity of a close understanding of the historical and political transformations taking place …
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Understanding informal segregation : racial and spatial identities among the Indian minority of Mokopane
… constantly inform negotiating conceptions of "Indianness". In mapping the dialogue of the Indian community, a story of the evolution of segregation emerges, creating a replication of internal divisions. This study ultimately demonstrates the need for a spatial-discursive orientation and a more …
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Ethnographic Criticism and Native American Fiction: Cultural Texts, Textual Culture in the Novels of James Welch
… preservation of a pure, timeless, traditional Indianness. Reading the criticism alongside the novels allows me to expand the boundaries of study to include analysis of critical motivations, strategies, and effects; to expose the problems and dangers of an unexamined adoption of an ethnographic …
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Constructing the Navajo Capital: Landscape, Power, and Representation at Window Rock
… Dine at the time, but instead represented the ""Indianness"" of the users as imagined by the OIA and its architects working in New York City. Through analysis of these buildings' placement throughout the site and the ""traditional"" or ""indigenous"" iconography within them, I reveal how the …
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Living and working in the enchanted lands: American Indian tourism labor, development, and activism, 1900-1970
… of tourism helped create commodified ideas of “Indianness” and popularize stereotypical images of Native Americans. Tourism also became a tool communities used to create and build tribal industries and labor opportunities, to restructure communities’ labor systems, and to exert a voice in …
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Choreographing postcolonial identities in Britain: Cultural policies and the politics of performance, 1983-2008
… exoticised to fit with conventional notions of ‘Indianness’ and ‘Blackness’, this thesis demonstrates that through the use of methodologies from cultural theory/policy, postcolonial theory and dance studies it is possible to reveal and illuminate meanings in the choreography and performances of …
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Disco Jalebi : an ethnographic exploration of Gay Bombay
… negotiated is the very stability of the idea of Indianness. I conclude with a modus vivendi - my draft manifesto for the larger queer movement that I believe Gay Bombay is an integral part of, and a sincere hope that as the struggle for queer rights enters its exciting new phase, groups like Gay …
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Values and Academic Achievement among Rural Indian High School Students in North Dakota
… achievers did not appear to be rejecting the "Indianness." Neither high nor low achievers were more likely to participate in traditional Indian activities.</p><p>It was concluded that the findings support the benefits of acculturation as opposed to assimilation in the educational process. …
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Cultural production and identity in colonial and post-colonial Madras, India
… within a nation. The confluence of a search for 'Indianness' and the post-modern thought in architecture is a paradoxical aspect of the recognition of the autonomy of architecture. In the contemporary India, the search for a 'Tamil' identity, may be perceived as an attempt to create a distinct, …
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Inviting the Other: An ethnographically-informed social history of Sat Tal Christian Ashram
… he had for STA, we see that Jones associated Indianness with a very particular strand of Hinduism—one heavily-inflected by Brahmanical idioms and Advaita Vedanta philosophies. Chapter 4 contextualises and summarises a crucial shift that occurred at STA in 1991: a ‘School of Evangelism’ (SoE) …
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A study of pastoral care to the terminally ill in a multi-cultural context with specific reference to India
… and, as we will see, there is a universal Indianness which seems to stamp itself upon even the representatives of the Abrahamic faiths present on that Continent. It is therefore vital that the Pastor should be able to enter gently and swiftly into a patient's religious world-view. To do …
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“Hattak Vpi Homma” mvt Miha Nanta Fehna? What Does “Native American” Really Mean?
… ethnic or national identities with a homogenized Indianness, Panethnicity arises in part through the shared experience of defending precarious ethnic and national identities. Finally, Indigenous Nationhood means exercising sovereignty in accordance with the kinship responsibilities of specific …