Hunters and Bureaucrats

preview-18
  • Hunters and Bureaucrats Book Detail

  • Author : Paul Nadasdy
  • Release Date : 2011-11-01
  • Publisher : UBC Press
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Pages : 330
  • ISBN 13 : 0774840412
  • File Size : 95,95 MB

Hunters and Bureaucrats by Paul Nadasdy PDF Summary

Book Description: Based on three years of ethnographic research in the Yukon, this book examines contemporary efforts to restructure the relationship between aboriginal peoples and the state in Canada. Although it is widely held that land claims and co-management – two of the most visible and celebrated elements of this restructuring – will help reverse centuries of inequity, this book challenges this conventional wisdom, arguing that land claims and co-management may be less empowering for First Nation peoples than is often supposed. The book examines the complex relationship between the people of Kluane First Nation, the land and animals, and the state. It shows that Kluane human-animal relations are at least partially incompatible with Euro-Canadian notions of “property” and “knowledge.” Yet, these concepts form the conceptual basis for land claims and co-management, respectively. As a result, these processes necessarily end up taking for granted – and so helping to reproduce – existing power relations. First Nation peoples’ participation in land claim negotiations and co-management have forced them – at least in some contexts – to adopt Euro-Canadian perspectives toward the land and animals. They have been forced to develop bureaucratic infrastructures for interfacing with the state, and they have had to become bureaucrats themselves, learning to speak and act in uncharacteristic ways. Thus, land claims and co-management have helped undermine the very way of life they are supposed to be protecting. This book speaks to critical issues in contemporary anthropology, First Nation law, and resource management. It moves beyond conventional models of colonialism, in which the state is treated as a monolithic entity, and instead explores how “state power” is reproduced through everyday bureaucratic practices – including struggles over the production and use of knowledge.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Hunters and Bureaucrats books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Hunters and Bureaucrats

Hunters and Bureaucrats

File Size : 99,99 MB
Total View : 5676 Views
DOWNLOAD

Based on three years of ethnographic research in the Yukon, this book examines contemporary efforts to restructure the relationship between aboriginal peoples a

Sovereignty's Entailments

Sovereignty's Entailments

File Size : 68,68 MB
Total View : 3693 Views
DOWNLOAD

In recent decades, indigenous peoples in the Yukon have signed land claim and self-government agreements that spell out the nature of government-to-government r

Darker than Night

Darker than Night

File Size : 13,13 MB
Total View : 5354 Views
DOWNLOAD

In the bitter cold of 1985, two buddies embark on a hunting trip from suburban Detroit to rural Michigan, unaware they would soon become the hunted. Darker than

Contesting Leviathan

Contesting Leviathan

File Size : 53,53 MB
Total View : 2758 Views
DOWNLOAD

In 1999, off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, the first gray whale in seven decades was killed by Makah whalers. The hunt marked the return of a centuries-ol