Indigeneity: culture and representation proceedings of the 2008 Chotro Conference on Indigenous Languages, Culture, and Society / edited by G.N. Devy, Geoffrey V. Davis and K.K. Chakravarty. - New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2009. - 405 p. 24 cm.

Organized by Bhasha Research and Publication Centre and others.

-- Culture and expression:
1. Listening to the pterodactyl /
Shiv Visvanathan 2. Friends, indigenes and others: a German interjection /
Gerhard Stilz 3. Popular culture and political violence: the postcolonial state in Malawi, 1964-1994 /
Reuben Makayiko Chirambo 4. People-centric histories of indigenous literature: thoughts on theory and Praxis /
Nilanjana Deb 5. Crystallizing protest into movement: adivasi community in history, society and literature /
Vibha S. Chauhan 6. Myths of the Bondas /
Anand Mahanand 7. Contemporary indigenous literatures in Canada: healing from historical trauma /
Jo-Ann Episkenew 8. Classical, modern and transnational Nahuatl literatures /
Gabriel S. Estrada 9. Narrations of HerStories /
Michaela Moura-Kocoolu 10. Will they survive the margins?: endangered languages and oral traditions in Kenya /
Mumia Geoffrey Osaaji 11. Udje dance songs of Nigeria's Urhobo people /
Tanure ojaide 12. Writing about lives on the edge: the Naga imbroglio /
K.B. Veio Pou 13. Wedded to life: the Paliyans of Kerala /
P.J. George 14. The weaving of Bodo women's identity in their traditional folk songs /
Esther Sukriti Narjinari 15. The biblical language dilemma: the competing interests of English vs. Lubusuku /
Maloba Weseka 16. Women's songs: oral cultural expressions among the Zulu people /
Nompumelelo Zondi -- Representation and interpretation
17. Adivasi literature: an emerging consciousness /
Ramnika Gupta 18. Indigeneity, visuality and postcolonial theory: the case of the San /
Brendon Nicholls Steve Chimombo's epic of the forest creatures /
Pia Thielmann

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Indigenous peoples--Social life and Customs
Sociolinguistics
Literature and Society
Popular Culture

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