Indigenous incorporated or indigenous recolonized? : comments

Greeneââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢s paper addresses an important and controversial issue. Rather than talking about its strengths and weaknesses, however, I want to comment on what it leaves unsaid. Greene rightly points out that indigeneity is a highly contested process, but I do not think that we can dismiss the neocolonial influences on this process as easily as he does. If indigenous self-representation is ââ"šÂ¬Ã…"at the heart of recent anthropology,ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚ then we cannot dismiss the discursive effects of the colonial project (Banerjee 2000). In fact, we must place the discussion of colonialism and the role of anthropology in producing indigenous subjects in the center of the debate.