Indigenous Textual Cultures: Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire by

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The contributors to Indigenous Textual Cultures examined the ways in which indigenous peoples created textual cultures to navigate, shape, and contest empire, colonialism, and modernity.

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As modern European empires expanded, written language was critical to articulations of imperial authority and justifications of conquest. For imperial administrators and thinkers, the non-literacy of "native" societies demonstrated their primitiveness and inability to change. Yet as the contributors to Indigenous Textual Cultures make clear through cases from the Pacific Islands, Australasia, North America, and Africa, indigenous communities were highly adaptive and created novel, dynamic literary practices that preserved indigenous knowledge traditions. The contributors illustrate how modern literacy operated alongside orality rather than replacing it. Reconstructing multiple traditions of indigenous literacy and textual production, the contributors focus attention on the often hidden, forgotten, neglected, and marginalized cultural innovators who read, wrote, and used texts in endlessly creative ways. This volume demonstrates how the work of these innovators played pivotal roles in reimagining indigenous epistemologies, challenging colonial domination, and envisioning radical new futures.Contributors. Noelani Arista, Tony Ballantyne, Alban Bensa, Keith Thor Carlson, Evelyn Ellerman, Isabel Hofmeyr, Emma Hunter, Arini Loader, Adrian Muckle, Lachy Paterson, Laura Rademaker, Michael P. J. Reilly, Bruno Saura, Ivy T. Schweitzer, Angela Wanhalla

Author Biography

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, Mori, 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 Mori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies.Angela Wanhalla is Associate Professor of History at the University of Otago.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements  ixIntroduction. Indigenous Textual Cultures, the Politics of Difference, and the Dynamism of Practice / Tony Ballantyne and Lachy Paterson  1Part I. Archives and Debates1. Ka Waihona Palapala Mneleo: Research in a Time of Plenty. Colonialism and the Hawaiian-Language Archives / Noelani Arista  312. Kanak Writings and Written Tradition in the Archive of New Caledonia's 1917 War / Alban Bensa and Adrian Muckle  603. Mori Lteracy Practices in Colonial New Zealand / Lachy Paterson  80Part II. Orality and Texts4. "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 Carlson5. Talking Traditions: Orality, Ecology, and Spirituality in Mangaia's Textual Culture / Michael P. J. Reilly  1316. Polynesian Family Manuscripts (Puta Tuana) from the Society and Austral Islands: Interior History, Formal Logic, and Social Uses / Bruno Saura  154Part III. Readers7. Print Media, the Swahili Language, and Textual Cultures in Twentieth-Century Tanzania, ca. 1923–1939 / Emma Hunter  1758. Going Off Script: Aboriginal Rejection and Repurposing of English Literacies / Laura Radmaker  1959. "Read It, Don't Smoke It!": Developing and Maintaining Literacy in Papua New Guinea / Evelyn Ellerman  216Part IV. Writers10. Colonial Copyright, Customs, and Indigenous Textualities: Literary Authority and Textual Citizenship / Isabel Hofmeyr  24511. He Pukapuka Tataku i ng Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui: Reading Te Rauparaha through Time / Arini Loader  26312. Writing and Beyond in Indigenous North America: The Occom Network / Ivy Schweitzer  289Bibliography  315Contributors  345Index

Review

"Indigenous Textual Cultures is a cohesive, well-edited collection of twelve articles written by an international community of experts in indigenous cultures and colonialism. . . . These scholars bring a fresh approach that focuses on using original-language indigenous sources and interpreting this array of materials within their proper cultural contexts." -- Julie K. Tanaka * RBM *"Research that draws on decolonizing methodologies remains urgent and necessary. This powerful, eloquent collection of new essays sets innovative agendas for this research." -- Gillian Whitlock * Australian Historical Studies *"Each chapter offers well-written, engaging, and thoughtful illustrations and analyses. . . . [Indigenous Textual Cultures] is an important contribution to the role of communication in the vicious and devastating struggles between colonial structures and Indigenous communities." -- David Troolin * Pacific Affairs *"There is great value in this collection for historians of the American West. . . . Each chapter brings much needed nuance to our understanding of Indigenous responses to colonialism and forced assimilation." -- Justin Gage * Western Historical Quarterly *"The wide variety of topics covered and the discussion of so many different Indigenous textual cultures have helped create a collection that is an extremely important resource. In particular, this book will appeal to researchers from a range of disciplines, such as cultural studies, postcolonial studies, linguistics and Indigenous studies and, more specifically, to anyone who is interested in transcultural concepts. The coverage of various theoretical and methodological approaches as well as the Indigenous perspectives voiced are very impressive, sound and innovative." -- Hanne Birk * Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies *

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"There is great value in this collection for historians of the American West. . . . Each chapter brings much needed nuance to our understanding of Indigenous responses to colonialism and forced assimilation."

Details ISBN1478010819 Publisher Duke University Press Year 2020 ISBN-10 1478010819 ISBN-13 9781478010814 Format Paperback Publication Date 2020-09-11 Imprint Duke University Press Subtitle Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Edited by Angela Wanhalla Short Title Indigenous Textual Cultures Language English DEWEY 371.82997 UK Release Date 2020-09-11 Pages 368 AU Release Date 2020-09-11 NZ Release Date 2020-09-11 US Release Date 2020-09-11 Illustrations 15 illustrations Author Angela Wanhalla Alternative 9781478009764 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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