ABSTRACT
Performing Identities brings together essays by scholars, artists and activists engaged in understanding and conserving rapidly disappearing local knowledge forms of indigenous communities across continents. It depicts the imaginative transactions evident in the interface of identity and cultural transformation, raising the issue of cultural rights of these otherwise marginalized communities.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 2|20 pages
Reading Khoekhoe and Khasi Folktales Juxtapositionally
Political Insights and Social Values in Two Traditional Narratives
chapter 5|26 pages
Foregrounding the Margin
Traditional Value Systems of Lepchas of India and Igbos of Nigeria
chapter 6|15 pages
Charting the Multiple Scripts of Santali
Notes Towards a Visual History of Adivasi Languages and Literatures
chapter 9|16 pages
Storying Sovereignty and ‘Sustainable Self-Determination’
Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria and Warwick Thornton’s Samson and Delilah
chapter 12|34 pages
‘Black Indian’ Women and Blood Rules
Hyphenated Hybridities on the Margins of America
chapter 14|22 pages
The /Xam Narratives of the Bleek and Lloyd Collection
Exploring 19th-century San Mythology
chapter 16|16 pages
Indigenous Knowledge and Global Translation
Reconstruction of Australia through Aboriginal Imagination in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria
chapter 17|20 pages
Contesting the Curative Space
Politics of Healing in the Narratives of Nyole Ethno-Medical Practitioners
chapter 18|12 pages
Conquering Adversity through Art
An Evaluation of Moranic Performances by the Maasai People of Kenya
