Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I Politics of indigeneity -- 1 Collective rights and the construction of heritage -- 2 Naming the indigenous -- 3 Stakeholder in practice: "Us", "Them" and the problem of expertise -- 4 Extractive industries, corporate discourse and indigenous heritage -- 5 Integrating the past in the present: archaeology as part of living Yup'ik heritage -- 6 Us and whom?: representations of indigenousness in the archaeological site of Avdat, Israel -- 7 The archaeological construction of aboriginality: the Inuit case -- Part II Spaces between "Us" and "Them"--8 Envisioning a different notion of "indigenous archaeology" from the perspective of Sub-Saharan Africa -- 9 Who is indigenous?: migration theories and notions of indigeneity in Southern African archaeology -- 10 Reading indigeneity without race: color, representation and uncertainty in photographic evidence -- 11 How history controls the past: "discovering" the unconventional and underground history of Setauket, New York's Native and African American community -- 12 Bronze drums and the contestations of indigenous heritage in Laos -- 13 Indigeneity, knowledge and archaeology on both sides of the mirror -- Part III Heritage and indigenous rights -- 14 Culture, rights, indigeneity and intervention: addressing inequality in indigenous heritage protection and control -- 15 Archaeological heritage and Hokkaido Ainu: ethnicity and research ethics -- 16 Power relations and the management of heritage in South Africa -- 17 Performing "Indigenous" for international tourists who tour the rural poor -- 18 Contested colonial history and heritage in Sápmi: archaeology, indigeneity and local communities in Northern Sweden -- 19 Reindeer herding as heritage in the Kola Peninsula, northwestern Russia