Indigenous Psychologies: Resources for Future Histories AU1 AU2 (original) (raw)

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The number and variety of Indigenous psychologies has grown immensely in the 75 years since the end of World War II. To date, there has been a dearth of histories of these psychologies, though brief descriptive historical introductions in articles are common. The approach of this chapter is to provide a critical rationale for understanding the challenges that face Indigenous psychologies, as well as the challenge of writing critical histories. Just as there are a multiplicity of Indigenous psychologies and many possible histories, so there are multiple rationales for writing histories of Indigenous psychologies. The chapter provides one intellectual and critical rationale based in decolonization approaches and decolonial theory that will be of use for future historians. The chapter also provides a substantial list of published resources to aid the development of future histories.

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