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T1 Whale as cosmos: Multi-species ethnography and contemporary indigenous cosmopolitics
A1 Adamson, Joni
K1 etnografía
K1 ecocrítica
K1 cosmopolitismo
K1 literatura indígena
K1 Niki Caro
K1 Linda Hogan
AB Both Niki Caro’s 2002 film Whale Rider and Linda Hogan’s 2008 novel People of the Whale feature children who possess characteristics that associate them with ancient transformational animals and—at the same time—prove them to be modern leaders capable of challenging clichés surrounding the “Ecological Indian.” Both film and novel also feature traditionallycarved canoes linked to the whales considered by the many whaling peoples to be ancestors. This essay explores how events staged around these canoes offer insight into the activities ofindigenous, ethnic minority, and civil society groups who are organizing a movement that has recently been described as “indigenous cosmopolitics.” While exploring the relevance of this movement for ecocriticism, the essay also examines how transformational characters might be reread for the ways they suggest new modes of research being referred to as “multi-speciesethnography” by scholars who study humans within the “cosmos” of their entanglements with other kinds of living beings.
PB Universidad de La Laguna. Servicio de Publicaciones
SN 0211-5913
YR 2012
FD 2012
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 23-nov-2024