Hunters and bureaucrats : power, knowledge, and aboriginal-state relations in the southwest Yukon

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Hunters and bureaucrats : power, knowledge, and aboriginal-state relations in the southwest Yukon / Paul Nadasdy.

Summary:

"Hunters and Bureaucrats is based on the author's ethnographic fieldwork in the Southwest Yukon. Nadasdy spent almost three years in Burwash Landing, a village of seventy people, most of whom are status Indians and members of the Kluane First Nation. The result is a revealing exploration of how land claims and co-management, as aspects of a new and evolving relationship between the Kluane First Nation and the state, are affecting Kluane people and their way of life." "Anthropologists, policy makers, scholars of Native Studies, and those concerned with the evolving relationship between Aboriginal peoples and the state will find this study a welcome addition to their fields."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 0774809833
ISBN: 9780774809832
ISBN: 9780774809849 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0774809841 (pbk.)
Physical Description: xiii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, 2003.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-302) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Aboriginal-State Relations in Kluane Country: An Overview -- "It's Not Really 'Knowledge' at All, It's More a Way of Life" -- The Politics of TEK: Power and the Integration of Knowledge -- Counting Sheep: The Ruby Range Sheep Steering Committee and the Construction of Knowledge -- Knowledge-Integration in Practice: The Case of the Ruby Range Sheep Steering Committee -- "Just Like Whitemen": Property and Land Claims in Kluane Country.