Countering Modernity

<p>This volume highlights and examines how Indigenous Peoples continue to inhabit the world in counter-modern ways. It illustrates how communalist practices and cooperative priorities of many Indigenous communities are simultaneously key to their cultural survival while being most vulnerable to post-colonial erasure. Chapters contributed by community collectives elders lawyers scholars multi-generational collaboratives and others are brought together to highlight the communal and cooperative strategies that counter the modernizing tropes of capitalist industrialist and representational hegemonies. Furthermore the authors of the book explicitly interrogate the roles of witness collaborator advocate and community leader as they consider ethical relations in contexts of financialized global markets ongoing land grabbing and displacement epistemic violence and post-colonial erasures.</p><p>Lucid and topical the book will be indispensable for students and scholars of anthropology modernity capitalism history sociology human rights minority studies Indigenous studies Asian studies and Latin American studies.</p>