indigenist

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1. Supporting indigenous people or beliefs.

   Indigenist research rejects the oppressively dehumanizing characterization of Indigenous peoples as oppressed 'victims' in need of charity.

   2006, Julian Kunnie, Nomalungelo Ivy Goduka, Indigenous Peoples' Wisdom and Power: Affirming Our Knowledge Through Narratives, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN, page 43

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   The nationalist and indigenist positions often overlap, and both nationalists and indigenists tend to see themselves as apart from and in opposition to the cosmopolitans

   2000, Thomas Claviez, Maria Moss, Mirror Writing: (re-)constructions of Native American Identity, Galda & Wilch, →ISBN, page 213

   Both indigenist and Communist views on land, moreover, are today articulated under the shadow of a neoliberal “model of empowerment based implicitly or explicitly on property rights”

   2017, Luisa Steur, Indigenist Mobilization: Confronting Electoral Communism and Precarious Livelihoods in Post-Reform Kerala, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 258

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1. A person who supports indigenous people or beliefs.

   For indigenists, benefits included a new and potentially more compelling frame in which to promote their advocacy of indigenous selfdetermination.

   2016, Thomas Karl Alberts, Shamanism, Discourse, Modernity, Routledge, →ISBN

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   Thus, the political skills displayed by the Yshiro leaders, even when seen by radical indigenists as stemming from hunting—gathering skills, appeared as a possible index of inauthenticity to the extent that they seem to alter the egalitarianism of hunter-gatherer societies.

   2004, Mario Blaser, Harvey A. Feit, Glenn McRae, In the Way of Development: Indigenous Peoples, Life Projects and Globalization, IDRC, →ISBN, page 66

   However, even within the framework of political support for insurgent Indians, the Utopian dimension of the indigenists remained predominant—they spent much time discussing indigenous music, languages and crafts, but little mention was made of the distribution of land for which Indians were fighting to the death against the Leguía regime.

   2013, Jacques Galinier, Antoinette Molinié, The Neo-Indians: A Religion for the Third Millennium, University Press of Colorado, →ISBN