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Author Bens, Jonas, author

Title The Indigenous paradox : rights, sovereignty, and culture in the Americas / Jonas Bens
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 245 pages) : illustrations
Series Pennsylvania studies in human rights
Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
Contents Chapter 1. Indigeneity and the Law -- Chapter 2. The Invention of the Sovereignty Approach to Indigenous Rights -- Chapter 3. "Domestic Dependent Nations" and Indigenous Identity -- Chapter 4. How to Win with the Sovereignty Approach -- Chapter 5. "Rooted Legal Pluralism" and Its Culturalized Boundaries -- Chapter 6. "De Facto Legal Pluralism" and the Problem of Not Being "Different Enough" -- Chapter 7. The Invention of the Culture Approach to Indigenous Rights -- Chapter 8. Expansions and Limits of the Culture Approach -- Chapter 9. Sovereignty, Culture, and the Indigenous Paradox -- Chapter 10. Indigeneity and the Politics of Recognition -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary Indigeneity contains a paradox: Indigenous communities are incorporated into and separated from the legal system of the postcolonial nation state. The Indigenous Paradox explores Indigenous rights cases from north and south America in order to shed light on issues of shared sovereignty, multiculturalism, and legal pluralism
Analysis Human Rights
Law
Political Science
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebook Central, viewed August 31, 2020)
Subject Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- America
Indigenous peoples -- Civil rights -- America
Indigenous peoples -- Government relations.
Sovereignty.
sovereignty.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights.
Indigenous peoples -- Civil rights
Indigenous peoples -- Government relations
Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Sovereignty
America
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812297188
0812297180