Indigenous Peoples, Heritage and
Landscape in the Asia Pacific
This book demonstrates how active and meaningful collaboration between researchers and local stakeholders and indigenous communities can lead to the co-production of knowledge and the empowerment of communities.
Focusing on the Asia Pacific region, this interdisciplinary volume looks at local and indigenous relations to the landscape, showing how applied scholarship and collaborative research can work to empower indigenous and descendant communities. With cases ranging across Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan, the Philippines, Cambodia, Pohnpei, Guam, and Easter Island, this book demonstrates the many ways in which co-production of knowledge is reconnecting local and indigenous relations to the landscape, and diversifying the philosophy of human-land relations. In so doing, the book is enriching the knowledge of landscape, and changing the landscape of knowledge.
This important contribution to our understanding of knowledge production will be of interest to readers across Anthropology, Archaeology, Development, Geography, Heritage Studies, Indigenous Studies, and Policy Studies.
Stephen Acabado is Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
Da-Wei Kuan is Professor, Department of Ethnology, National Chengchi University, Taiwan.
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Indigenous Peoples, Heritage and Landscape in the Asia Pacific
Knowledge Co-Production and Empowerment
Edited by
Stephen Acabado and Da-Wei Kuan
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Names: Acabado, Stephen B., editor. | Kuan, Da-wei, editor.
Title: Indigenous peoples, heritage and landscape in the Asia Pacific : knowledge co-production and empowerment / edited by Stephen Acabado and Da-wei Kuan.
Description: New York : Routledge, 2021. |
Series: Routledge Studies in Indigenous Peoples and Policy | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021001713 (print) | LCCN 2021001714 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367648718 (Hardback) | ISBN 9780367648725 (eBook)
Subjects: LCSH: EthnologyFieldworkPacific Area. | Indigenous peoplesResearchSocial aspectsCase studies. | Indigenous peoplesResearchMoral and ethical aspectsCase studies. | Indigenous peoplesResearchMethodologyCase studies. | Cultural landscapesPacific AreaCase studies. | Cultural propertyProtectionPacific Area. | Cultural propertyPacific AreaManagementCase studies. | Group work in research.
Classification: LCC GN590 .I54 2021 (print) | LCC GN590 (ebook) | DDC 305.80072/3091823dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021001713
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021001714
ISBN: 978-0-367-64871-8 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-367-64872-5 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-003-12669-0 (ebk)
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Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgments
List of contributors
Foreword
Shannon Speed
Stephen Acabado and Da-wei Kuan
2 Engaged research uncovers the grey areas and trade-offs in climate justice
Courtney Work, Arnim Scheidel, Ida Theilade, Sen Sothea, and Danik Song
3 Engaging voices in the landscape: participatory geography in Indigenous land rights recognition
Micah R. Fisher
4 Prutehi Litekyan: a social movement to protect biocultural diversity and restore indigenous land sovereignty on Guhan
Else Demeulenaere
5 Expressive cultures: empowering Cordillera (Philippines) weavers through textile revitalization
Analyn Salvador-Amores, Marlon Martin, and Stephen Acabado
6 From territorial claim to land-use plan: the experience of dialoging Indigenous ecological knowledge and state management regime in Taiwan
Da-wei Kuan
7 Applied archaeology empowers: blending traditional and modern knowledge through educational outreach on Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile)
Britton L. Shepardson
8 Archaeology and heritage in the conflict zone: lessons from the Moluccas
Marlon Ririmasse and Peter Lape
9 Heritage and history in Cambodia: localizing and empowering communities through archaeology
Jean-Baptiste Chevance
10 Apertures of knowledge co-production: facilitating multigenerational photovoices at Balis UNESCO Cultural Landscape