AlterNative

Volume 6, Number 3 of AlterNative is now available. This general edition features a range of articles from around the world that cross many different disciplines.

Rawiri Taonui discusses the issue of mana tamariki and the way that colonization has impacted on family structures within Maoridom, arguing that the figures of child homicide and violence could be linked to processes of cultural alienation.  Kisiku Sa’qawei Paq’tism Randolph Bowers looks at models of Aboriginal identity, embodiment and ecology of place.   Fiona McAllan looks at Aboriginal law in Australia through the lens of post-structuralism and Jacques Derrida. Tim McCreanor, Jenny Rankine, Angela Moewaka Barnes, Belinda Borell, Ray Nairn, Mandi Gregory and Hector Kaiwai discuss the representation of Maori in sport.  Carine Ayele Durand looks at the way that indigenous museums work to define and index inauthenticity.  Concepts of time and eldership are examined through the example of the Torrobo in Kenya by Shelley Ashdown. Finally, Jaroslaw Derlicki turns his focus to the importance of Yukaghir in Siberia.

This issue also features book reviews of Louis Meyer and Benjamin Maldonado Alvarado’s New world of indigenous resistance: Noam Chomsky and voices from North, South and Central America (2010) and Kaarina Karlo’s Wo(men) and bears:  The gifts of nature, culture and gender revisited (2008).

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