Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
Indigenous textual cultures : reading and writing in the age of global empire
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
Duke University Press
Place
Date
2020
Physical Description
357 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781478009764
1478009764
9781478010814
1478010819
Language
English
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Subject Category
Content
Introduction: Indigenous textual cultures, the politics of difference, and the dynamism of practice / Tony Ballantyne and Lachy Paterson -- Ka Waihona Palapala Manaleo : research in a time of plenty. Colonialism and the Hawaiian Language Archives / Noelani Arista -- Kanak writings and written tradition in the Archive of New Caledonia's "1917" War / Alban Bensa and Adrian Muckle -- Maori literacy practices in colonial New Zealand / Lachy Paterson -- "Don't destroy the writing" : time- and space-based communication and the colonial strategy of mimicry in nineteenth-century Salish-missionary relations on Canada's Pacific Coast / Keith Thor Carlson -- Talking traditions : orality, ecology, and spirituality in Mangaia's Textual cultures / Michael P.J. Reilly -- Polynesian family manuscripts (Puta Tupuna) from the Society and Austral Islands : interior history, formal logic, and social uses / Bruno Saura -- Print media, the Swahili language, and textual cultures in twentieth century Tanzania, c.1923-1939 / Emma Hunter -- Going off script : Aboriginal rejection and repurposing of English literacies / Laura Rademaker -- "Read it, don't smoke it"! Developing and maintaining literacy in Papua New Guinea / Evelyn Ellerman -- Colonial copyright, customs, and indigenous textualities : literary authority and textual citzenship / Isabel Hofmeyr -- He Pukapuka Tataku i nga Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui : reading Te Rauparaha through time / Arini Loader -- Writing and beyond in indigenous North America : The Occom network / Ivy Schweitzer.
Public Access Text
[Keywords: Literacy--Social aspects; Indigenous peoples--Education; Indigenous peoples--Communication; Indigenous peoples--Books and reading]
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Notes
Tony Ballantyne is Pro-Vice-Chancellor in the Division of Humanities at the University of Otago in New Zealand. His many books include Entanglements of Empire: Missionaries, Maori, and the Question of the Body, also published by Duke University Press.
Lachy Paterson is Professor at the University of Otago's Te Tumu: School of Maori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies.
Angela Wanhalla is Associate Professor of History at the University of Otago.
Collection Type
Reading Room
Last Update
19 Dec 2023
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