Offers readers a modern contextual framework for conducting social science research with indigenous peoples. Foundational chapters summarize current UN-based standards for indigenous rights and autonomy, with their implications for research practice. Coverage goes on to detail minimally-invasive data-gathering methods, survey current training and competency issues, and consider the scientist's role in research, particularly as a product of his/her own cultural background.
Sources and Methods in Indigenous Studies is a synthesis of changes and innovations in methodologies in Indigenous Studies, focusing on sources over a broad chronological and geographical range. This collection offers insight into the methodological approaches contributors take to research, and how these methods have developed in recent years.
The First Nations principle of ownership, control, access and possession (OCAP), states that First Nations have control over data collection processes and that they own and control how this information can be used.
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