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Ward is an Australian anthropologist and archaeologist specializing in Indigenous cultural heritage and community-based research.
Known for: Indigenous Cultures in an Interconnected World
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Indigenous Cultures in an Interconnected World
This book explores how Indigenous peoples around the world engage with globalization and modernity while maintaining their cultural identities. It presents case studies from different regions, examining the intersections of tradition, politics, and global networks. The volume highlights Indigenous agency in shaping contemporary cultural and social transformations.
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Conceptual Framework: Cultural Interconnectedness and Indigenous Agency within Global Systems
Throughout our research, we returned repeatedly to two guiding concepts: interconnectedness and agency. Interconnectedness reminds us that no culture exists in isolation. Indigenous worlds have always been part of complex systems—links of trade, stories, kinship, and migration that long predate mode...
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Historical Context: Colonial Legacies and Their Continuing Influence on Indigenous Communities
No understanding of Indigenous globalization can begin without confronting colonial history. The interconnected world we live in today was built upon networks of imperial domination, displacement, and economic extraction. Colonization reconfigured Indigenous lands into commodities, and Indigenous cu...
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Ward is an Australian anthropologist and archaeologist specializing in Indigenous cultural heritage and community-based research.
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