Contemporary Indigenous Cosmologies & Pragmatics 2007 critiques ways of approaching Indigenous

critiques ways of approaching Indigenous texts that are informed by the Western academic tradition and offers instead a new way of theorizing Indigenous literature based on the Indigenous practice of life writing

LUISE VON FLOTOW is a translator of French and German literature

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a storyteller and poet

Contemporary Indigenous Cosmologies & Pragmatics 2007 critiques ways of approaching IndigenousIn this timely collection, the authors examine Indigenous peoples negotiations with different cosmologies in a globalized world. Dussart and Poirier outline a sophisticated theory of change that accounts for the complexity of Indigenous peoples engagement with Christianity and other cosmologies, their own colonial experiences, as well as their ongoing relationships to place and kin. The contributors offer fine grained ethnographic studies that