Towards an “Indigenous paradigm” from a Sami perspective.

• Main Author: Rauna Kuokkanen
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2000
• Subjects: Retour; sami
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1073.4181; http://gift-economy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Rauna-1_pg411-436.pdf

Abstract I Resume The author discusses the need, significance and objectives of an "Indigenous paradigm" which is a way of both decolonizing Indigenous minds by "re-centring" Indigenous values and cultural practices and placing Indigenous peoples and their issues into dominant, mainstream discourses which until now have relegated Indigenous peoples to marginal positions. The author argues that the main objectives of such a paradigm include the criticism of Westem dualistic metaphysics and Eurocentrism as well as the return to the Indigenous peoples' holistic philosophies in research. Dans cet article, iI est question des besoins, du sens et des objectifs relatifs au "paradigme autochtone". Cette approche constitue un moyen de decoloniser la pensee autochtone, en "re-centrant" les pratiques culturelles et les valeurs des peuples autochtones, et d'accorder aux Autochtones et aux questions qui les concernent-jusqu'a maintenant marginalises-une place au sein des courants de pensee dominants. L'auteur emet I'hypothese que les objectifs principaux d'un tel paradigme doivent impliquer une critique de la metaphysique dualiste occidentale et, parallelement, un retour, au niveau de la recherche, a la philosophie holistique propre aux peuples autochtones.