Cultural genocide in international context / Barry Sautman -- Redefining the past, taking charge of the present, appropriating the future; the Hokkaido Ainu case / Katarina Sjöberg -- From forced assimilation to cultural revitalization: Taiwan's aborigines and their role in Taiwan nativism / Michael Rudolph -- West Papua: the discourse of cultural genocide and conflict resolution / John Otto Ondawame -- Educating the Naga headhunters: colonial history and cultural hegemony in post-colonial India / Dolly Kikon -- Tibet and the (mis- )representation of cultural genocide / Barry Sautman
Summary
This volume engages the concept and related notions of cultural hegemony, cultural erosion, cultural hybridity and cultural survival by considering whether five regimes in Asia deploy policies aimed at extirpating the language, religion, arts, customs or other elements of the cultures of non-dominant peoples
