“Over the last forty years, indigenous peoples have gained unprecedented global visibility. Too often, the academic response has lurched between facile romanticism and disingenuous critique. In contrast, James Clifford’s writings on these challenging movements are insightful, balanced, and lucid. Returns is an indispensable guide to a vital dimension of the present and the future.”—Nicholas Thomas, University of Cambridge
“Homecomings as becomings: in this visionary book, Clifford shows us what it means to listen for the entangled agencies of indigènitude in various ‘primitive’ populations’ practices of survival and self-renewal in the contemporary world. Rather than subsuming these agencies under the uni-directional biopolitics of capitalist modernity and Euro-American colonialism, he brings to them the patience, dedication, and capaciousness of an ethnographic realism, one that challenges our entrenched habits of teleological historical thinking at every turn.”—Rey Chow, Duke University
“Like Clifford’s previous books, Returns is written for a broad audience and demonstrates the range, generosity, and acuity of his thinking. Using extended examples ranging from the Pacific to California to Alaska, Clifford reflects provocatively on the meaning of belonging to a place, reclaiming one’s heritage, and forging indigenous futures. This book is destined to become as significant for anthropology and cultural studies as its predecessors.”—Pauline Strong, University of Texas at Austin
Returns
Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century
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ISBN 9780674724921
Publication: November 2013
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