Migrant Knowledge

Migrant Knowledge

Tag: indigenous knowledge

From an anthropological perspective, Santisteban analyzes the collective memories about the displacements of the Mapuche-Tehuelche people (Patagonia) in the territory before and during the imposition of state borders and the nation-state.

Anthropological Reflection on the Memories and Mobility of the Mapuche-Tehuelche People in the Andes Mountains

Kaia Santisteban

Examines how latin american rural migrant women living in a watershed area of Greater Buenos Aires navigate environmental injustice, use knowledge from their former homelands, and contribute to community strategies while challenging gender and socio-environmental inequalities.

Circulation of Rural Migrant Knowledge in the Face of Environmental Injustice

María Belén López

Examines the sources of knowledge about the Comanches available to John Meusebach when he sought to make a treaty with them.

Gaining Knowledge about the Comanches: Meusebach’s Path Towards a Notable Treaty

Abigail Escobedo and Simon Herbert

Weiss introduces a miniseries on German migration to Texas and knowledge transfers that occurred between German settlers and Texans.

‘On to Texas’: An Introduction to the Miniseries on Texas Germans

Describes Rudolf Holzmann's ethnomusicological work, cataloguing and orchestrating Indigenous music, in Peru after he fled there from Nazi Germany.

Migrant Musical Knowledge in Latin America, 1935–1960

Here we share a call for applications for the Bucerius Young Scholars Forum at UC Berkeley, GHI Pacific Office, September 2023, as it relates closely to our blog's topic.

Seventh Bucerius Young Scholars Forum—Indigenous Migration

Protestant missionary schools affected the construction of "indigenous knowledge" in complex ways, including through their role in the emergence of local go-betweens, who carried this knowledge into colonial contexts.

The Formation of Indigenous Knowledge in Protestant Mission Schools, 1900–1930

Elisabeth Engel