Title Sovereignty's entailments : first nation state formation in the Yukon / Paul Nadasdy

Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017] ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 378 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Introduction: First Nation State Formation -- Sovereignty -- Territory -- Citizenship -- Nation -- Time -- Conclusion: Anti-sovereignty Summary 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 relations and grant individual First Nations significant, albeit limited, powers of governance over their peoples, lands, and resources. Those agreements, however, are predicated on the assumption that if First Nations are to qualify as governments at all, they must be fundamentally state-like, and they frame First Nation powers in the culturally contingent idiom of sovereignty. Based on over five years of ethnographic research [carried out] in the southwest Yukon, Sovereignty's Entailments is a close ethnographic analysis of everyday practices of state formation in a society whose members do not take for granted the cultural entailments of sovereignty. This approach enables Nadasdy to illustrate the full scope and magnitude of the "cultural revolution" that is state formation and expose the culturally specific assumptions about space, time, and sociality that lie at the heart of sovereign politics. Nadasdy's timely and insightful work illuminates how the process of state formation is transforming Yukon Indian people's relationships with one another, animals, and the land Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-345) and index Notes Print version record Subject Indigenous peoples Indigenous peoples -- Yukon -- Government relations Indigenous peoples -- Yukon -- Politics and government HISTORY -- Canada -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies Indigenous peoples -- Politics and government Indigenous peoples Indigenous peoples -- Government relations Politics and government Kulturleben Politik Indianer Soziale Situation Selbstverwaltung SUBJECT Yukon -- Politics and government Subject Yukon Yukon-River-Gebiet Form Electronic book ISBN 9781487515720 1487515723 9781487515737 1487515731

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