Table of Contents

Acknowledgements  ix
Introduction. Indigenous Textual Cultures, the Politics of Difference, and the Dynamism of Practice / Tony Ballantyne and Lachy Paterson  1
Part I. Archives and Debates
1. Ka Waihona Palapala Māneleo: Research in a Time of Plenty. Colonialism and the Hawaiian-Language Archives / Noelani Arista  31
2. Kanak Writings and Written Tradition in the Archive of New Caledonia's 1917 War / Alban Bensa and Adrian Muckle  60
3. Māori Lteracy Practices in Colonial New Zealand / Lachy Paterson  80
Part II. Orality and Texts
4. "Don't Destroy the Writing": Time-and Space-Based Communication and the Colonial Strategy of Mimicry in Nineteenth-Century Salish-Missionary Relations on Canada's Pacific Coast / Keith Thor Carlson
5. Talking Traditions: Orality, Ecology, and Spirituality in Mangaia's Textual Culture / Michael P. J. Reilly  131
6. Polynesian Family Manuscripts (Puta Tuana) from the Society and Austral Islands: Interior History, Formal Logic, and Social Uses / Bruno Saura  154
Part III. Readers
7. Print Media, the Swahili Language, and Textual Cultures in Twentieth-Century Tanzania, ca. 1923–1939 / Emma Hunter  175
8. Going Off Script: Aboriginal Rejection and Repurposing of English Literacies / Laura Radmaker  195
9. "Read It, Don't Smoke It!": Developing and Maintaining Literacy in Papua New Guinea / Evelyn Ellerman  216
Part IV. Writers
10. Colonial Copyright, Customs, and Indigenous Textualities: Literary Authority and Textual Citizenship / Isabel Hofmeyr  245
11. He Pukapuka Tataku i ngā Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui: Reading Te Rauparaha through Time / Arini Loader  263
12. Writing and Beyond in Indigenous North America: The Occom Network / Ivy Schweitzer  289
Bibliography  315
Contributors  345
Index
 

About the Author

Tony Ballantyne is Pro-Vice-Chancellor in the Division of Humanities at the University of Otago in New Zealand. His many books include Entanglements of Empire: Missionaries, Māori, and the Question of the Body, also published by Duke University Press.

Lachy Paterson is Professor at the University of Otago's Te Tumu: School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies.

Angela Wanhalla is Associate Professor of History at the University of Otago.

Reviews

“Indigenous Textual Cultures is a cohesive, well-edited collection of twelve articles written by an international community of experts in indigenous cultures and colonialism. . . . These scholars bring a fresh approach that focuses on using original-language indigenous sources and interpreting this array of materials within their proper cultural contexts.”
*RBM*

“Research that draws on decolonizing methodologies remains urgent and necessary. This powerful, eloquent collection of new essays sets innovative agendas for this research.”
*Australian Historical Studies*

“Each chapter offers well-written, engaging, and thoughtful illustrations and analyses. . . . [Indigenous Textual Cultures] is an important contribution to the role of communication in the vicious and devastating struggles between colonial structures and Indigenous communities.”
*Pacific Affairs*

“There is great value in this collection for historians of the American West. . . . Each chapter brings much needed nuance to our understanding of Indigenous responses to colonialism and forced assimilation.”
*Western Historical Quarterly*

"The wide variety of topics covered and the discussion of so many different Indigenous textual cultures have helped create a collection that is an extremely important resource. In particular, this book will appeal to researchers from a range of disciplines, such as cultural studies, postcolonial studies, linguistics and Indigenous studies and, more specifically, to anyone who is interested in transcultural concepts. The coverage of various theoretical and methodological approaches as well as the Indigenous perspectives voiced are very impressive, sound and innovative."
*Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies*