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Social Science Native American Studies

Entangled Territorialities

Negotiating Indigenous Lands in Australia and Canada

edited by Françoise Dussart & Sylvie Poirier

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2017
Category
Native American Studies, Cultural, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781487521592
    Publish Date
    Mar 2017
    List Price
    $40.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781487501693
    Publish Date
    Mar 2017
    List Price
    $72.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487513771
    Publish Date
    Apr 2017
    List Price
    $30.95

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Entangled Territorialities offers vivid ethnographic examples of how Indigenous lands in Australia and Canada are tangled with governments, industries, and mainstream society. Most of the entangled lands to which Indigenous peoples are connected have been physically transformed and their ecological balance destroyed. Each chapter in this volume refers to specific circumstances in which Indigenous peoples have become intertwined with non-Aboriginal institutions and projects including the construction of hydroelectric dams and open mining pits. Long after the agents of resource extraction have abandoned these lands to their fate, Indigenous peoples will continue to claim ancestral ties and responsibilities that cannot be understood by agents of capitalism. The editors and contributors to this volume develop an anthropology of entanglement to further examine the larger debates about the vexed relationships between settlers and indigenous peoples over the meaning, knowledge, and management of traditionally-owned lands.

About the authors

Françoise Dussart is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut.

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Sylvie Poirier is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Université Laval.

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