Indigenous statistics : a quantitative research methodology

Walter, Maggie. (Author). Andersen, Chris, 1973- (Added Author).

Summary: "In the first book ever published on Indigenous quantitative methodologies, Maggie Walter and Chris Andersen open up a major new approach to research across the disciplines and applied fields. While qualitative methods have been rigorously critiqued and reformulated, the population statistics relied on by virtually all research on Indigenous peoples continue to be taken for granted as straightforward, transparent numbers. This book dismantles that persistent positivism with a forceful critique, then fills the void with a new paradigm for Indigenous quantitative methods, using concrete examples of research projects from First World Indigenous peoples in the United States, Australia, and Canada. Concise and accessible, it is an ideal supplementary text as well as a core component of the methodological toolkit for anyone conducting Indigenous research or using Indigenous population statistics"--Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781611322927 (hardback)
ISBN: 1611322928 (hardback)
ISBN: 9781611322934 (paperback)
ISBN: 1611322936 (paperback)
ISBN: 9781611322941 (institutional ebook)
ISBN: 1611322944 (institutional ebook)
ISBN: 9781611326970 (Consumer ebook)
ISBN: 1611326974 (Consumer ebook)
Physical Description: print
158 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, [2013]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-150) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Three Premises -- Cultural Framework of Indigenous Statistics -- Methodologies Produce Indigenous Statistics -- Academic Research Is a Situated Activity -- Indigeneity and the Statistical Lens -- Structure of Our Book -- Indigenous Peoples in this Book -- Conclusion: Take the Indigenous Quantitative Journey -- ch. 1 Deficit Indigenes -- Introduction -- Neo-Colonial Alliance of Statistics and Policy -- Indigenous Statistics, Canadian Style -- Switch from Ethnicity to "Self-identification" in the Canadian Census -- Indigenous Statistics, Australian Style -- Simple Presentations, Difficult Interpretations -- Orthodoxy of the Dichotomy -- Conclusion -- ch. 2 Conceptualizing Quantitative Methodologies -- Introduction -- Recipe for Methodology -- Social Position -- Epistemology -- Axiology -- Ontology -- Theoretical Frame and Methods -- Conclusion -- ch. 3 Paradigm of Indigenous Methodologies -- Differentiating First World Indigenous Methodologies -- Developing the Paradigm of Indigenous Quantitative Methodologies -- Indigenous Statistical Space -- Fit of the Quantitative Within Indigenous Methodologies -- Modernity and Indigenous Quantitative Methodologies -- Position within the Field of Quantitative Methodologies -- Purview of Indigenous Quantitative Methodologies -- Conclusion -- ch. 4 nayri kati ("Good Numbers")---Indigenous Quantitative Methodology in Practice -- Introduction -- Defining Indigenous Quantitative Methodologies -- nayri kati: An Indigenous Quantitative Methodology -- naryi kati Standpoint -- nayri kati Theoretical Framework -- nayri kati Epistemology -- Research Example 1 Indigenous Knowers and Evaluators -- nayri kati Axiology -- Research Example 2 Exploring Non-Indigenous Values -- naryi kati Ontology -- Research Example 3 Mapping the Ontological Landscape -- Conclusion -- ch. 5 Indigenous Quantitative Methodological Practice---Canada -- Introduction -- Example 1 Tribal Affiliations as Ethnic Ancestry -- Example 2 Urban Aboriginal Communities (Not) in the Census -- Example 3 National Metis Statistics -- Conclusion -- ch. 6 Conclusion---Indigenous Peoples and Statistics -- Introduction -- Indigenous Statistical Resistance -- Methodologies, Not Methods, Injure -- Power of Data -- Active Participants or Enclaved Specialists? -- References -- Index -- About the authors.