indigenist

Etymology

Definitions

1. 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 cosmopolitans
   • Indigenist research rejects the oppressively dehumanizing characterization of Indigenous peoples as oppressed 'victims' in need of charity.
   • 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”
2. 2

   A person who supports indigenous people or beliefs.

   • For indigenists, benefits included a new and potentially more compelling frame in which to promote their advocacy of indigenous selfdetermination.

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