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positions (2021) 29 (1): 163–182.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Zawawi Ibrahim; Lin Hongxuan The Penan of Sarawak, East Malaysia, on the island of Borneo, are an indigenous community who have adapted to survive under the strictures and expectations of the Malaysian nation-state while proudly holding on to their traditions and identities. One such tradition...
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positions (2008) 16 (2): 279–303.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Huei-chu Chu Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 “Fictionalizing” Indigenous Mourning:
Taiwanese Funerals under Japanese Imperialization
Huei-chu Chu
In 1941, a year when the Japanese wartime campaign of kminka (imperi-
alization...
Journal Article
positions (2009) 17 (3): 643–653.
Published: 01 August 2009
... to build bridges of communication between Taiwanese Han and Aborigines. What is needed instead is a sincere commitment to supporting the expression of a multiplicity of evolving voices and experiences, which must include Taiwan's indigenous peoples. This essay calls for a sustainable training and funding...
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positions (2003) 11 (2): 331–360.
Published: 01 May 2003
...Henrietta Harrison 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Clothing and Power on the Periphery of Empire:
The Costumes of the Indigenous People of Taiwan
Henrietta Harrison
The indigenous people of Taiwan define themselves in part by wearing what
they refer...
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positions (2021) 29 (2): 423–450.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Yanshuo Zhang Abstract This article probes a long‐overlooked concept in modern China—ethnic indigeneity—to propose new ways of looking at the relationship between the Chinese nation and its multiethnic minority groups. The Western scholarly community has long held that because the Chinese state...
Journal Article
positions (2021) 29 (1): 183–202.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Rick Bonus This article engages with practices of ethnographic storytelling to perform a structural critique of US schooling from the perspectives of Pacific Islander students attending a university far from their ancestral homelands. Deploying indigeneity to comprehend how their schooling...
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positions (2001) 9 (3): 501–533.
Published: 01 August 2001
...Filomeno V. Aguilar, Jr. 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Citizenship, Inheritance, and the Indigenizing of
“Orang Chinese” in Indonesia
Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr.
The national motto of Indonesia is Bhinneka Tunggal Ika, roughly translat-
able...
Journal Article
positions (2023) 31 (4): 839–862.
Published: 01 November 2023
... such as Japanese colonialism and Indigenous Taiwanese in the representational sphere began to appear on the screen. Therefore, the colonial memory that emerged on screen entangles with Cold War politics and the postcolonial geopolitical situation. In Wei's films, he links heroic Indigenous people in the history...
Journal Article
positions (2012) 20 (1): 67–94.
Published: 01 February 2012
... separation between the West and Asia, a regime of what Johannes Fabian called “the denial of coevalness” that insists on two different temporalities in which area specialists and indigenous informants are supposed to live separately. It has been presumed that the positionality of area specialists is defined...
Journal Article
positions (2022) 30 (1): 137–158.
Published: 01 February 2022
... and starring Henry Fonda. As there is no jury system in China, 12 Citizens instead presents the scenario as a law school mock trial on Anglo-American law, with crucial elements indigenized to the local setting. In one masterly maneuver after another, the remake overturns the democratic tenor of the original...
FIGURES
Journal Article
positions (2008) 16 (3): 491–505.
Published: 01 August 2008
... to resolve the systemic contradictions. Story 1. The Story of the Zapatistas, the Masked Army: how the indigenous Indians have changed their ancient tradition of living in harmony with nature and are now “destroying” nature in order to farm and subsist. Story 2. The Story of the “Straw-Hat Plot of Land”: how...
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positions (2013) 21 (3): 497–546.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Philippe Peycam A public political sphere, to exist, requires the convergence of phenomena primarily of socioeconomic and cultural nature. In early twentieth-century southern Vietnam, the emergence of new socially, economically, and culturally determined categories among the indigenous population...
Journal Article
positions (2014) 22 (2): 461–487.
Published: 01 May 2014
...). This is simultaneously linked to the translation of Orientalism/postcolonialism to Japan both as historical experience and as intellectual frustration of the non-West in its challenge to generate indigenous cultural theories. The last issue is further elaborated with the help of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's work on affect...
Journal Article
positions (2017) 25 (1): 223–248.
Published: 01 February 2017
... of the Mughal empire, under which a hierarchical, patriarchal system of aristocratic patronage and indirect landownership once flourished, to be replaced by indigenous bureaucratic elites as well as subservient princely states suited to British imperialism. The ability of wealthy families to sustain extended...
Journal Article
positions (2017) 25 (1): 195–221.
Published: 01 February 2017
... to undertake authentic forays into indigenous sociocultural experience through the provocative undermining of established commercial as well as art/parallel film conventions in India. The article traces certain ambiguous stylistic propensities underneath such subversive cinematic aspirations as probable...
Journal Article
positions (2020) 28 (2): 341–362.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., and Arsenii Nesmelov, through their deterritorialized Chinese, Japanese, and Russian stories, demonstrates the range of indigenous and exiled writers in their diverse imagination of Manchukuo’s ambiguous sovereignty. Multiethnicity and Multilingualism in the Minor Literature of Manchukuo Yue Chen Introduction...
Journal Article
positions (2000) 8 (1): 179–200.
Published: 01 February 2000
... is our eternal
mother!
Preamble
I am blind and indigenous to Taiwan. I had only nine years of national edu-
cation. I am not a scholar. Nor am I a politician, and I have never been a
government official. Many people...
Journal Article
positions (2022) 30 (4): 839–864.
Published: 01 November 2022
... Islands figure prominently in contemporary transpacific criticism: they are key sites where Indigenous knowledges meet diasporic settlement, where ideas of flow and navigation are complicated by the presence of military-imperial infrastructure. Transpacific studies—a field engaging with the interrelations...
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positions (2021) 29 (2): 229–233.
Published: 01 May 2021
... it, Literary resistance, for all its powerlessness, aims at a nondialectical, nonsubstantial relationship between the self and others. Finally, there is Yanshuo Zhang s Entrepreneurs of the National Past: The Discourse of Ethnic Indigeneity and Indigenous Cultural Writing in China. Here the problem...
Journal Article
positions (2010) 18 (2): 489–510.
Published: 01 May 2010
... indigenous understanding of male
same-sex relations as well as those within the Western modern homosexual/
heterosexual definition.
In this essay, instead of asking the old question of whether acts became
identities...
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