TY - BOOK AU - Dev,G.N AU - Davis,Geoffrey V AU - Chakravarty,K.K TI - Indigeneity: culture and representation: proceedings of the 2008 Chotro Conference on Indigenous Languages, Culture, and Society SN - 9788125036647 U1 - 305.8 PY - 2009/// CY - New Delhi PB - Orient Blackswan KW - Indigenous peoples KW - Social life and Customs KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Literature and Society KW - Popular Culture N1 - 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 ER -