This episode concentrates on the translation - the transformation in performance - of the U.N.'s International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples (9th of August) into the World Adivasi Day (Vishwa Adivasi Divas or Din) in Gujarat, specifically in the town of Chhotaudepur. Professor Arjun Rathva from MC Rathva College and Professor Gregory D. Alles from McDaniel College talk about an imagined global adivasi ('indigenous') community, ongoing legal challenges to the status...
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This episode concentrates on the translation - the transformation in performance - of the U.N.'s International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples (9th of August) into the World Adivasi Day (Vishwa Adivasi Divas or Din) in Gujarat, specifically in the town of Chhotaudepur. Professor Arjun Rathva from MC Rathva College and Professor Gregory D. Alles from McDaniel College talk about an imagined global adivasi ('indigenous') community, ongoing legal challenges to the status...
Episode 6. Sámi Activism from Alta to Standing Rock with Siv Ellen Kraft
Thinking About Indigenous Religions
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Episode 6. Sámi Activism from Alta to Standing Rock with Siv Ellen Kraft
Former Sámi Parliament President Aili Keskitalo declared Standing Rock "is our common cause. It has become symbolic, one may rightly say that this is the world's Alta-case" (NRK Nyheter 07.11.2016) In this episode, we meet Professor Siv Ellen Kraft, who talks about the shift to 'indigeneity' and 'indigenous religions' among the Sámi, through a focus on Sámi activism in Alta (1979-1981, concerning a proposed power plant) and Standing Rock (2016-2017, concerning a proposed pipeline). For m...
Thinking About Indigenous Religions
This episode concentrates on the translation - the transformation in performance - of the U.N.'s International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples (9th of August) into the World Adivasi Day (Vishwa Adivasi Divas or Din) in Gujarat, specifically in the town of Chhotaudepur. Professor Arjun Rathva from MC Rathva College and Professor Gregory D. Alles from McDaniel College talk about an imagined global adivasi ('indigenous') community, ongoing legal challenges to the status...
