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Remediating Cartographies of Erasure

Remediating Cartographies of Erasure

Anthropology, Indigenous Epistemologies, and the Global Imaginary

Edited by Bernard C. Perley

Published by: University of Nebraska Press

Imprint: University of Nebraska Press

280 Pages, 152.00 × 229.00 mm, 19 photographs, 1 illustration, 8 maps, 4 graphs, index

Hardcover
9781496243409
Published: August 2025

£52.00

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Remediating Cartographies of Erasure brings together leading sociocultural and linguistic anthropologists to explore the moral imperatives of anthropology as a discipline to contribute to the self-determination and equality of Indigenous peoples around the globe. This engaged collaboration highlights the partnerships between Indigenous communities and anthropology as a mutually respectful and emancipatory practice of Indigenous and anthropological epistemologies.

Indigenous scholars from New Zealand, the United States, and Canada and non-Indigenous scholars from Australia, the United States, and Canada each provide concrete examples of how researchers actualize the moral imperative to work with Indigenous peoples in ways that foster their human rights and self-determination. The contributors discuss anthropological work done in Canada, the United States, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Honduras, Australia, Sardinia, and New Zealand.

In laying out a world anthropology, this volume demonstrates the rectification practices of Indigenous peoples and continues anthropology’s long-standing advocacy for social justice and human rights around the globe.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Remediating Cartographies of Erasure

Bernard C. Perley

Part 1. New Zealand
1. Māori and the Crown: Obstructing Indigenous Identity in Aotearoa–New Zealand

Marama Muru-Lanning

Part 2. Australia
2. Belonging in the Country: The Mythic Landscape of Australian Monoculturalism

Patrick Sullivan

3. Remaking the World: A Partial Account of Warlpiri Meditations of Place under Settler-Colonial Rule

Melinda Hinkson

Part 3. Europe
4. Trickster Gastronomy: Eating the Earth and Resisting Dispossession on a Mediterranean Island

Tracey Heatherington

Part 4. Central America
5. “There Is Nothing to Celebrate”: Communal Land Titling and the Paradoxes of Indigenous Rights for Honduran Garifuna

Keri Vacanti Brondo

Part 5. North America
6. The Semiotic Reemergence of Cherokee Country

Margaret Bender, Thomas N. Belt, and Hartwell Francis

7. Bordering on the Absurd: Colonial Cartographies, Maliseet Identities, and Phenomenal States

Bernard C. Perley

Part 6. South America
8. Thematic Maps as a Strategy of Landscape Reinscription: The Alto PerenÉ AshÉninka Remediation Project

Elena Mihas

9. Bolivia’s Gas Boom and the Guarani: Remediation and Erasure during the Government of Evo Morales

Bret Gustafson

10. Mebengokre Kayapo Mapping as Graphic Oratory: Cartography as Historical and Ecological Basis of Territorial Claims

Terence Turner

Contributors
Index

Bernard C. Perley (Tobique Maliseet) is a professor and the director of the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He is the author of Defying Maliseet Language Death: Emergent Vitalities of Language, Culture, and Identity in Eastern Canada (Nebraska, 2011) and a coeditor of Anthropological Theory for the Twenty-First Century: A Critical Approach and Language and Social Justice: Global Perspectives.

“The scholars featured in this volume represent an excellent cross section of engaged and engaging thinkers, . . . bold and insightful. One of the book’s main contributions is the challenge it sets for readers to look again at what it is they thought they knew through a new lens of inquiry. In this spirit, it will be of wide interest to human geographers as well as anthropologists and Indigenous studies scholars.”-Mark K. Watson, author of Japan’s Ainu Minority in Tokyo: Diasporic Indigeneity and Urban Politics