Eva Gerharz is Junior Professor for Sociology of Development and Internationalisation at the Ruhr-University Bochum, and Interim Professor for Development Sociology at the University of Bayreuth. 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).Nasir Uddin is a Cultural Anthropologist based in Bangladesh and a Professor of Anthropology at Chittagong University. His edited books include To Host or To Hurt: Counter-narratives on the Rohingya Refugee Issues in Bangladesh (ICDR, 2012) and Life in Peace and Conflict: Indigeneity and State in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (Orient BlackSwan, 2017).Pradeep Chakkarath is Co-Director of the Hans Kilian and Lotte Köhler Centre (KKC) for Cultural Psychology and Historical Anthropology at the Ruhr-University Bochum. He is also a fellow alumnus of the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Konstanz and a member of the Task Force on Indigenous Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA).

“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