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transindigenous

transindigenous adjective: moving between, or shared between, multiple indigenous peoples or cultures.

Adjective

transindigenous (not comparable)

  1. Moving between, or shared between, multiple indigenous peoples or cultures.
    • Such 'interindigenous' and 'transindigenous' efforts have led to the establishment and the contemporary workings of the International Labour Organization's Indigenous and Tribal People's Convention (ILO 69), the United Nations Permament Forum on Indigenous Issues, and the United Nations Declaration...2016, Bjørn Ola Tafjord, “Scales, Translations, and Siding Effects: Uses of indigena and religión in Talamanca and Beyond”, in Christopher Hartney, Daniel Tower, editors, Religious Categories and the...
    • This project posits the concept of transindigenous materialities as the shared though distinct ways that Mexicana and Chicana performances tactically use material items, which have indigenous markers, in ways that strengthen female agency.2016, Yvette Martínez-Vu, Transindigenous Affinities: Gender, Indigeneity, and Objects in Mexicana and Chicana Performance, Doctoral thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, page ii

Origin of transindigenous

From trans- + indigenous.

Questions about transindigenous

What does transindigenous mean?
Transindigenous means moving between, or shared between, multiple indigenous peoples or cultures.
What part of speech is transindigenous?
Transindigenous is an adjective.

Words near transindigenous in the dictionary

  1. transiminations
  2. transimmortalised
  3. transimpedance
  4. transimpedances
  5. transin
  6. transindigenous
  7. transindividual
  8. transindividualities
  9. transindividuality
  10. transindividually
  11. transindividuation

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