Talk:Indigenization

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I should point out that indigenization means nothing of the sort.

According to Anthropologist Arjun Appadurai <in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arjun_Appadurai> his influential collection of essays, Modernity at Large (1996), indigenization means 'making something local.' It is not generally 'forced.' For example, American Country Western swing music or Rock music might be 'indigenized' or localized in the Philippines, becoming a hybrid of local and translocal traditions. In fact, the notion of indigenization speaks to the power of the local to redefine and reuse non-local cultural material. However, from the perspective of culture essentialists or purists who believe that local cultures exist as unique 'cultural islands' outside of connection to other cultures, the introduction of exogenous material such as Rock music is nothing more than (cultural) contamination. 67.176.40.173 (talk) 05:16, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Agreed. I've added a cleanup template. I use this term academically in a way totally unrelated to the definition in the article. MrLukeDevlin (talk) 02:38, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

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I am a student editing this page for a class project. All edits have been done with my group members and we are open to changes and criticism. We tried to expand the article in meaningful ways and included reliable sources. Snallapa (talk) 15:37, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

Review of Indigenization Wiki Article

These are based on the 9 criteria discussed in class

Verifiable/credible Sources

• -Sources are very good and easily linked to
• -Third paragraph of introduction, citation at the end? (After “they desire to revert to their traditional cultures and values.”)
• -Under ‘History of the Word’: Citation needed at end of third sentence (After “John Spencer where it was used to describe the adoption of English…”)
• -Under ‘History of the Use’: Citation needed after “…Americanization…”
• -Linguistics section needs more citations
• -In general, there are a lot of parts with big paragraphs and few citations after specific evidence/facts/statements
• -Under ‘Economy’: citation needed for “The Indigenization and Economic Empowerment Act.”

Neutral/NPOV

• Under ‘Linguistics’ term ‘often’ can be omitted
• -Under ‘Social Work’: ‘They also argue that Western…” can be changed to “It can be argued that…”

Structure/organization meets WP standards -good structure but try to avoid fluff

• -Under ‘History of the Use’ —avoid fluff (EX: purpose of the sentence after ‘making something indigenous’?)
• -Under ‘Economy’: First sentence, cut out the fluff—long confusing sentence
• -Under ‘Social Work’: First sentence, cut out the fluff—long confusing sentence

Notable

• -definitely worth it 😊

Links in and out/not an orphan

• -SWEET ‘See Also’ section! Great idea!
• -Lots of links in and out
• -Under ‘Linguistics’ maybe link the word ‘meta’ as it’s not common knowledge
• -Under ‘Economy’: link to “The Indigenization and Economic Empowerment Act” multiple times (or first time it’s mentioned?)

Grammar/Spelling (accuracy)/well written

• -Some sentences that aren’t quite clear
• -Under ‘Linguistics’: what does: “A common case includes African religion and thoughts to the ex-colonizer’s language.” mean?
• -Under ‘History of the Use’: ‘The process of making something indigenous has taken forms throughout history.’ —> did you mean ‘has taken many/different/various forms..’ ?
• -Under ‘History of the Word’: Third sentence, “the economist”—does this mean a journal or a type of person? Clarify.
• -Under ‘Social Work’: Clarify: “However, some argue that while the indigenization of social work may work when it comes to foreigners being brought into Western cultures, that it would not work the same if it was the other way around.”

Can read without referring to external sources

• Definitely good explanations, maybe try to write in simpler terms (that 'meta language' example jumps out)

Concise while also being complete

• Avoid fluff in paragraphs

Images

• -no images

Good Job! Also love the word glocalization Overall good job, clearly a lot of thought and effort was put into this! Just be careful with fluff and neutrality. Make sure to only state what you’ve found in your sources!

Also In some of these large paragraphs seems to be moving away from stating what the sources say and only speculating (even though it might be correct speculation) [Example: paragraph under Linguistics—the part that begins discussing ‘meta language’ is not found in the 3rd source]

EDITS BY: AlexXinmei, Character.zero, Prongs14

Indigenization in Native American Psychological Research & Practice

The word "indigenization" has a completely different meaning in the context of psychological research and practice. It typically means something similar to "decolonization", but emphasizes a return Indigenous culture rather than distances from the colonizing culture. Indigenization is a word used in Eduardo and Bonnie Duran's book "Native American Postcolonial Psychology" and is defined using the in-text citation (Atal, 1981; Slagle and Weibel-Orlando, 1986) as "the replacement of Eurocentric models with local, native idioms".

In this context, indigenization means nearly the exact opposite of what is presented in this article.

Source: Duran, E. & Duran, B. (1995). Native American Postcolonial Psychology, Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology., p. 125 47.149.126.22 (talk) 09:04, 2 December 2023 (UTC)