Hunters and Bureaucrats: Power, Knowledge, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Southwest Yukon
by Nadasdy, Paul

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Hunters and Bureaucrats: Power, Knowledge, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Southwest Yukon: Governments and First Nations in Canada have long been operating on the assumption that land claims agreements and the co-management of wildlife and other resources will resolve centuries-long inequities. Paul Nadasdy challenges this premise, arguing that co-management and land claims processes, based as they are on European concepts of “knowledge” and “property,” are in many ways incompatible with First Nations beliefs and practices regarding human-animal-land relations. To participate effectively in these processes, Aboriginal peoples have had to develop bureaucracies that parallel those of the federal and territorial governments with which they must deal. These bureaucracies reproduce existing power relations and compel Aboriginal peoples to speak and act in uncharacteristic ways. As a result, Nadasdy argues, land claims and co-management may be helping to undermine the very way of life they are supposed to protect.

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.

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ISBN-10:	0774809833
ISBN-13/EAN:	9780774809832
Author:	Nadasdy, Paul
Publisher:	University of British Columbia Press Vancouver, B.C.
Publication Date:	9/2003
Pages:	312 pp
Size/Dimensions:	9.25 x 6.25 x 1.25 inches
Binding:	Hardcover

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Hunters and Bureaucrats: Power, Knowledge, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Southwest Yukonby Nadasdy, Paul

Hunters and Bureaucrats: Power, Knowledge, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Southwest Yukon
by Nadasdy, Paul