Decolonizing Native Histories: Collaboration, Knowledge, and Language in the Americas
ISBN: 9780822394853
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Duke University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Native American and Indigenous Studies; Anthropology; Latin American and Caribbean Studies;

An interdisciplinary collection that addresses the racial and ethnic politics of knowledge production and indigenous activism in the Americas, this book analyzes the relationship of language to power and advocates for collaboration between community members, scholars, and activists that prioritize the right of Native people to decide how their knowledge is used.

Florencia E. Mallon is the Julieta Kirkwood Professor of History and Latin American Studies and Chair of the History Department at the University of Wisconsin. She is the author of numerous books, including Courage Tastes of Blood: The Mapuche Indigenous Community of Nicolás Ailío and the Chilean State, 1906-2000 and t he editor and translator of Rosa Isolde Reuque Paillalef's When a Flower is Reborn: The Life and Times of a Mapuche Feminist , both published by Duke University Press.


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