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Indigenous peoples have long suffered from Exoticization. Outsiders elevate their beauty and difference but do not see beyond this to the problems they face. This title looks beyond the exotic images, tracing stories of indigenous peoples from their first contact with explorers and colonizers.

About the Author

Lotte Hughes is a freelance journalist and historian, specializing in oral history. She has written on Maasai colonial history, the environment, development and human rights issues for newspapers and NGOs, and won the John Morgan Writing Award 1996/7. She is the co-author of Interviewing Children.