Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Indigenousnoss.
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- noun
Indigenousness .
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Examples
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The idea, sources said, was to demonstrate the "indigenity" of Hinduism vis-à-vis Islam and Christianity.
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In a country where the racial lines are so blurred, both "whiteness" and indigenity (to coin a term) are highly economically and culturally determined.
Nathaniel Loewentheil: A Ballot of Bolivian Identity: Today's Presidential Election 2009
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To be sure, indigenity remains far more complex than any single political narrative can capture, and pueblos originarios does not fully capture the identity of any Bolivian.
Nathaniel Loewentheil: Bolivia: One Llama's Great Incan Adventure 2009
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In their direct emergence from the land, the 'stone spirits' allude not only to an element of Maori oral tradition but to long-held Pakeha dreams of indigenity.
Reading the Maps 2009
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They felt that Thorne's talk of two types of prehistoric Australians undermined their claim to indigenity, and the publication of the remains of Mungo Man and Mungo Lady as illustrations to newspaper articles about Thorne's discoveries only made them angrier.
Reading the Maps 2009
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