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Weekend Update: Identity, Culture, Politics and Anthropology since the 1980s
Author(s) -
Friedman Jonathan
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
oceania
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.356
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1834-4461
pISSN - 0029-8077
DOI - 10.1002/ocea.5137
Subject(s) - hegemony , sovereignty , indigenous , politics , identity (music) , power (physics) , cultural identity , cultural hegemony , sociology , gender studies , political science , political economy , anthropology , social science , law , aesthetics , ecology , negotiation , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , biology
In periods of hegemonic power there is a tendency for indigenous groups to be eradicated, assimilated, or turned into stigmatized minorities. Where hegemony weakens, the process is reversed with groups who were previously suppressed or assimilated reasserting their identities, cultures, and political claims on territorial sovereignty. The two processes are different phases of a historical cycle. The decline of Western hegemony provides a space for the rise of culturally‐based identity movements, such as the Hawaiian and Maori sovereignty movements. Such movements in turn foster the emergence of new elites.