"Indigeneity" has become a prominent yet contested concept in national and international politics, as well as within the social sciences. This edited volume draws from authors representing different disciplines and perspectives, exploring the dependence of indigeneity on varying sociopolitical contexts, actors, and discourses with the ultimate goal of investigating the concept's scientific and political potential.

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Preface
Adam Kuper

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Exploring Indigeneity: Introductory Remarks
Nasir Uddin, Eva Gerharz, and Pradeep Chakkarath

PART I: STRUGGLES OVER LAND AND RESOURCES

Chapter 1. On the Nature of Indigenous Land: Ownership, Access and Farming in Upland Northeast India
Erik de Maaker

Chapter 2. Considering the Implications of the Concept of Indigeneity for Land and Natural Resource Management in Cambodia, Thailand, and Laos
Ian G. Baird

PART II: BECOMING INDIGENOUS

Chapter 3. Processes of Modernization, Processes of Indigenization: an Amazonian Case (Yanomami, Southern Venezuela)
Gabriele Herzog-Schröder

Chapter 4. Indigenous Activism Beyond Ethnic Groups: Shifting Boundaries and Constellations of Belonging
Eva Gerharz

Chapter 5. In Search of Self: Identity, Indigeneity, and Cultural Politics in Bangladesh
Nasir Uddin

PART III: INDIGENEITY AS A POLITICAL RESOURCE

Chapter 6. Different Trajectories of Indigenous Rights Movements in Africa: Insights from Cameroon and Tanzania
Michaela Pelican

Chapter 7. Politics of Indigeneity in the Andean Highlands: Indigenous Social Movements and the State in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru (1940-2015)
Olaf Kaltmeier

Chapter 8. Conflicting Dimensions of Indigeneity as a Contested Political Resource in Contemporary Mexico
Gilberto Rescher

PART IV: INDIGENEITY AND THE STATE

Chapter 9. Intimate Antagonisms: Adivasis and the State in Contemporary India
Uday Chandra

Chapter 10. Indigeneity, Culture and the State: Social Change and Legal Reforms in Latin America
Wolfgang Gabbert

Chapter 11. Fluid Indigeneities in the Indian Ocean: A Small History of the State and its Other
Philipp Zehmisch

Postscriptum: The Futures of Indigenous Medicine: Networks, Contexts, Freedom
William S. Sax

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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).