The goal of this book is to create a basis for initial concrete evaluations of the question of establishing a joint political body for the Saami Parliaments elected by the Saami people in the three Nordic countries. The first part of the report consists of general background material. These chapters contain a large part of the content of the total report, since knowledge about the past is necessary to be able to understand possible future solutions. The Saami Parliaments' political leaders: Pekka Aikio, Ole Henrik magga and Ingwar Åhren have been a reference group for this work.

Saami Parliamentary Co-Operation: An Analysis (International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA))

Politics & Social Sciences

Henriksen, John

Anthropology

International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs

In recent years the situation of the Hadzabe of Tanzania has become a cause of concern for a number of human rights organizations, development agents and individuals who have observed the ongoing marginalisation and erosion of land rights of this group of African hunter-gatherers. This book provides background information and experiences of the Hadzabe with government and development agents, relations with neighbouring communities, church and NGO-organizations.

The Hadzabe of Tanzania: Land and Human Rights for a Hunter-gatherer Community (International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA))

Madsen, Andrew

This volume continues a  tradition  established in 1998 to prioritize the dissemination of information and analysis on indigenous issues. This handbook provides basic information on the nature of the new UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Lola Garcia-Alix is the human rights coordinator of the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs.

The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA))

Garcia-Alix, Lola

Social Sciences

Concerning the transformations within Chiapas Mayan communities that make processes of change visible, the focus of this book is the period from 1974 when the first hemispheric congress of indigenous people took place in San Cristobal de las Casas, to the Zapatista uprising and the turbulent forces released by it. It takes into account the continuities and disjunctures in community organization and regional relations in preconquest, colonial and independence times that provide dues to central beliefs and values affecting social control, the ordering of social relations by class and ethnicity, the control of resources, and the degree of autonomy in relation to the region and state in contemporary villages and townships.

The Explosion of Communities in Chiapas (International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA))

Never Drink from the Same Cup (International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA))

Out in the Cold: The Legacy of Canada's Relocation Experiment in the High Arctic (International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA))

Marcus,Alan

This book is concerned with the first peoples (those people who are considered indigenous by themselves and others) of southern Africa such as the San, the Nama, and the Khoi, and their rights. Although living in democratic countries like Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Botswana --and in principle sharing the same rights and responsibilities as the rest of the population--practice shows that these peoples more often than not are at the margins of the societies in which they live; they often face extreme poverty, and they frequently are subjected to discriminatory treatment and exposed to all kinds of human rights abuses. Robert K. Hitchcock is professor of anthropology and geography at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. He has done extensive research and development work in southern Africa in general and among San peoples in particular. Diana Vinding is an anthropologist working with the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) in Copenhagen.

Indigenous Peoples Rights in Southern Africa (International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA))

History

Africa

By describing the fabric of relationships indigenous peoples weave with their environment, The Land Within attempts to define a more precise notion of indigenous territoriality. A large part of the work of titling the South American indigenous territories may now be completed but this book aims to demonstrate that, in addition to management, these territories involve many other complex aspects that must not be overlooked if the risk of losing these areas to settlers or extraction companies is to be avoided. Alexandre Surralls holds a doctorate in anthropology from the School for Higher Studies in Social Sciences and is a researcher on the staff of the National Centre for Scientific Research. Pedro Garca Hierro is a lawyer from Madrid Complutense University and the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He has worked with various indigenous organizations, on issues related to the identification and development of collective rights and the promotion of intercultural democratic reforms.

The Land Within: Indigenous Territory and Perception of the Environment

The Indigenous World 2006 contains the most compre- hensive update on the current situation of indigenous peoples and the human rights and other international processes related to indigenous peoples. With contributions from both indigenous as well as non-indigenous scholars and activists the yearbook provides an overview of crucial developments in 2005 that have impacted on indigenous peoples of the world. Discussions include: Region and country reports covering most of the indigenous world; updated information on the processes within the UN system that relate to indigenous peoples such as the Permanent Forum, the Draft Declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples, and the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples; and other international processes, including news from the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, the Organization of American States, and the Arctic Council.
 Sille Stidsen is an anthropologist and project coordinator The International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs.

The Indigenous World 2006 (International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA))

"This book spans more than 30 years of history, the same three decades in which indigenous sovereignty' emerged from five centuries of banishment as an unauthorized and unspeakable taboo to become a major topic of national political contention. Varese is both the author of this fascinating chronicle and a key actor in the very process and transformations that he narrates. The arenas of these political practices have an impressive scope: denouncement in international forums of repression against indigenous peoples; work on international legal instruments for indigenous rights; a pioneering land titling program for indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon; innovative bilingual-transcultural education and cultural worker' training in Oaxaca; work with transnational organizations of indigenous immigrants in California. This book also breaks ground theoretically, by offering a creative fusion of a political economy' analytical frame with ethnography sensitive to the meaning, premises, politics and imaginaries of indigenous peoples' cultural production and resources--what might be called indigenous hermeneutics. This book allows the reader to become a witness to sovereignty, by following Varese's 30-year odyssey of politically engaged scholarship on and with indigenous movements of Latin America." --Charles R. Hale, University of Texas, Austin, President, Latin American Studies Association Stefano Varese is a Peruvian anthropologist with many years' experience in Peru's Amazonian region, southeastern Mexico, Central America, and the trans-border region of Mexico and California. His publications include Salt of the Mountain, Indgenas y Educacin en Mxico, Proyectos Etnicos y Proyectos Nacionales, Pueblos indios, soberana y globalismo, and La Ruta Mixteca. Varese is currently professor and chair of the Department of Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis and director of the Indigenous Research Centers of the Americas at UC Davis.

Witness to Sovereignty: Essays on the Indian Movement in Latin America (International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA))

Literature & Fiction

Varese, Stefano

World Literature

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