2012 Aboriginal Studies - UBC Press

FroM our publisHing pArtners
indigenous peoples and
demography
The Complex Relation between
Identity and Statistics
Edited by Per Axelsson and Peter Sköld
When researchers want to study indigenous
populations they are dependent
upon the highly variable way in which
states or territories enumerate, categorize,
and differentiate indigenous people.
In this volume, anthropologists, historians,
demographers, and sociologists
have come together for the first time to
examine the historical and contemporary
construct of indigenous people in
a number of fascinating geographical
contexts around the world, including
Canada, the United States, Colombia,
Russia, Scandinavia, the Balkans, and
the United Kingdom. Using historical and
demographical evidence, the contributors
explore the creation and validity of
categories for enumerating indigenous
populations.
PeR AxeLssoN is a senior researcher of
the Centre for Sami Research at Umeå
University, Sweden. PeteR sköLD is a
professor of history at Umeå University
and the director of the Centre for Sami
Research.
2011, 978-0-85745-000-5 HC $120.00
354 pages, 6 x 9"
1 map, 26 figs, 36 tables
Aboriginal studies, social & Cultural
Anthropology, Multiculturalism &
transnationalism
Berghahn Books
Canadian rights only
women and Knowledge in
Mesoamerica
From East L.A. to Anahuac
Paloma Martinez-Cruz
The few works looking at the knowledge
of women in Mesoamerica generally examine
only the written – even academic
– world, accessible only to the most elite
segments of (customarily male) society.
These works have consistently excluded
the essential repertoire and performed
knowledge of women who think and
work in ways other than the textual. And
while two of the book’s chapters critique
contemporary novels, Martinez-Cruz
also calls for the exploration of nontextual
knowledge trans-mission. In this
regard, its goals and methods are close
to those of performance scholarship
and anthropology, and these methods
reveal Mesoamerican women to be public
intellectuals. In Women and Knowledge
in Mesoamerica, fieldwork and ethnography
combine to reveal women healers as
models of agency.
PALMoA MARtINeZ-CRuZ is an assistant
professor of Spanish language and
literature and Latino studies at North
Central College in Naperville, Illinois.
2011, 978-0-8165-2942-1 Pb $35.95
208 pages, 6 x 9"
Aboriginal studies, Hispanic & Latin
American studies, gender, sociology,
Health
University of Arizona Press
Canadian rights only
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