indigenist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
noun
A person who supports indigenous people or beliefs.
Example Sentences
- "The nationalist and indigenist positions often overlap, and both nationalists and indigenists tend to see themselves as apart from and in opposition to the cosmopolitans"
- "Indigenist research rejects the oppressively dehumanizing characterization of Indigenous peoples as oppressed 'victims' in need of charity."
- "Both indigenist and Communist views on land, moreover, are today articulated under the shadow of a neoliberal “model of empowerment based implicitly or explicitly on property rights”"
- "Thus, the political skills displayed by the Yshiro leaders, even when seen by radical indigenists as stemming from hunting—gathering skills, appeared as a possible index of inauthenticity to the extent that they seem to alter the egalitarianism of hunter-gatherer societies."
- "However, even within the framework of political support for insurgent Indians, the Utopian dimension of the indigenists remained predominant—they spent much time discussing indigenous music, languages and crafts, but little mention was made of the distribution of land for which Indians were fighting to the death against the Leguía regime."
- "For indigenists, benefits included a new and potentially more compelling frame in which to promote their advocacy of indigenous selfdetermination."
Etymology
From indigenous + -ist.