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indigenist

indigenist adjective: supporting indigenous people or beliefs.

Adjective

indigenist (comparative more indigenist, superlative most indigenist)

  1. Supporting indigenous people or beliefs.
    • The nationalist and indigenist positions often overlap, and both nationalists and indigenists tend to see themselves as apart from and in opposition to the cosmopolitans2000, Thomas Claviez, Maria Moss, Mirror Writing: (re-)constructions of Native American Identity, Galda & Wilch, →ISBN, page 213
    • Indigenist research rejects the oppressively dehumanizing characterization of Indigenous peoples as oppressed 'victims' in need of charity.2006, Julian Kunnie, Nomalungelo Ivy Goduka, Indigenous Peoples' Wisdom and Power: Affirming Our Knowledge Through Narratives, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN, page 43

Noun

indigenist (plural indigenists)

  1. A person who supports indigenous people or beliefs.
    • Thus, the political skills displayed by the Yshiro leaders, even when seen by radical indigenists as stemming from hunting—gathering skills, appeared as a possible index of inauthenticity to the extent that they seem to alter the egalitarianism of hunter-gatherer societies.2004, Mario Blaser, Harvey A. Feit, Glenn McRae, In the Way of Development: Indigenous Peoples, Life Projects and Globalization, IDRC, →ISBN, page 66
    • However, even within the framework of political support for insurgent Indians, the Utopian dimension of the indigenists remained predominant—they spent much time discussing indigenous music, languages and crafts, but little mention was made of the distribution of land for which Indians were...2013, Jacques Galinier, Antoinette Molinié, The Neo-Indians: A Religion for the Third Millennium, University Press of Colorado, →ISBN

Examples of indigenist in a sentence

  • Both indigenist and Communist views on land, moreover, are today articulated under the shadow of a neoliberal “model of empowerment based implicitly or explicitly on property rights”2017, Luisa Steur, Indigenist Mobilization: Confronting Electoral Communism and Precarious Livelihoods in Post-Reform Kerala, Berghahn...
  • For indigenists, benefits included a new and potentially more compelling frame in which to promote their advocacy of indigenous selfdetermination.2016, Thomas Karl Alberts, Shamanism, Discourse, Modernity, Routledge, →ISBN:

Forms of indigenist

Adjective
comparativemore indigenist
superlativemost indigenist
Noun
pluralindigenists

Origin of indigenist

From indigenous + -ist.

Questions about indigenist

What does indigenist mean?
Indigenist means supporting indigenous people or beliefs.
How do you use indigenist in a sentence?
Both indigenist and Communist views on land, moreover, are today articulated under the shadow of a neoliberal “model of empowerment based implicitly or explicitly on property rights”
What part of speech is indigenist?
Indigenist can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near indigenist in the dictionary

  1. indigenises
  2. indigenising
  3. indigenism
  4. indigenismo
  5. indigenisms
  6. indigenist
  7. indigenistic
  8. indigenists
  9. indigenity
  10. indigenization
  11. indigenizations

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