Eva Gerharz is Professor of Sociology with a Special Focus on Globalisation at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany. She is the author of The Politics of Reconstruction and Development in Sri Lanka. Transnational Commitments to Social Change (Routledge, 2014) and co-editor of Governance, Conflict and Development in South Asia (with Siri Hettige, Sage, 2015).

“I look forward to bringing this book into my upperdivision classroom. It is yet another excellent tool for shaking up easy assumptions and problematizing taken-for-granted concepts, something we anthropologists ideally endeavor to accomplish in all that we do.” • American Ethnologist“This very interesting and insightful collection takes the focus of discussion around the concept of indigeneity away from its normal parameters, instead examining how the concept has taken root outside the European and North American contexts, transforming the concept of indigeneity.” • Evelyn Plaice, University of New Brunswick

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceAdam KuperAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Exploring Indigeneity: Introductory RemarksNasir Uddin, Eva Gerharz, and Pradeep ChakkarathPART I: STRUGGLES OVER LAND AND RESOURCESChapter 1. On the Nature of Indigenous Land: Ownership, Access and Farming in Upland Northeast IndiaErik de MaakerChapter 2. Considering the Implications of the Concept of Indigeneity for Land and Natural Resource Management in Cambodia, Thailand, and LaosIan G. BairdPART II: BECOMING INDIGENOUSChapter 3. Processes of Modernization, Processes of Indigenization: an Amazonian Case (Yanomami, Southern Venezuela)Gabriele Herzog-SchröderChapter 4. Indigenous Activism Beyond Ethnic Groups: Shifting Boundaries and Constellations of BelongingEva GerharzChapter 5. In Search of Self: Identity, Indigeneity, and Cultural Politics in BangladeshNasir UddinPART III: INDIGENEITY AS A POLITICAL RESOURCEChapter 6. Different Trajectories of Indigenous Rights Movements in Africa: Insights from Cameroon and TanzaniaMichaela PelicanChapter 7. Politics of Indigeneity in the Andean Highlands: Indigenous Social Movements and the State in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru (1940–2015)Olaf KaltmeierChapter 8. Conflicting Dimensions of Indigeneity as a Contested Political Resource in Contemporary MexicoGilberto RescherPART IV: INDIGENEITY AND THE STATEChapter 9. Intimate Antagonisms: Adivasis and the State in Contemporary IndiaUday ChandraChapter 10. Indigeneity, Culture and the State: Social Change and Legal Reforms in Latin AmericaWolfgang GabbertChapter 11. Fluid Indigeneities in the Indian Ocean: A Small History of the State and its OtherPhilipp ZehmischPostscriptum: The Futures of Indigenous Medicine: Networks, Contexts, FreedomWilliam S. SaxIndex