Indigenous Peoples of Asia

Indigenous Peoples of Asia

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The core of this collection is formed by papers first given in the Colloquium on Indigenous Peoples of Asia at St. Anthony’s College, Oxford, on 25 November 1989, and in the Asian Studies Centre Seminar on Indigenous Peoples of Asia held at St. Anthony’s College in Hilary Term, 1990. Authors were invited to extensively revise and update their papers, while other articles were commissioned. There followed the long process of editing and conferring with authors. In the best of circumstances it would be impossible to put together a completely representative book about the indigenous peoples of Asia given the uncertainties about who is or is not an indigenous person. In some cases we have regrettably been unable to identify anyone willing or able to contribute for a given region. In others, promised chapters never materialized. For this reason we have been unable to include planned chapters on Thailand and on the Nagas of the India-Burma border. We have been sensitive to the problem of appearing to speak for, that is to say, in place of, indigenous peoples. Although we have not completely overcome this problem, we never had any such intention, and this book is less guilty of doing so than it would have been had we not made an effort to avoid this pitfall. Some chapters give extensive attention to the statements made by indigenous persons and movements. One example of such a statement by the Alliance of Taiwanese Aborigines, I Chiang, Lava Kau, is reproduced as chapter 18. As the authors in this volume are of diverse backgrounds and hold differing views, the book has not main editorial line. It also makes no claim to providing definitive statement about a movement that, by virtue of being relatively new, has much of its history ahead of it. The present situation is very fluid, and it can be anticipated that the future will harbor many surprises.

Publication Date

1995

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