Description
Book SynopsisA timely anthropological examination of the effect of land claims settlements and co-management of resources on the Kluane First Nation of the Southwest Yukon.
Trade ReviewThe book is well written and carefully argued. Nadasdy draws effectively on the seminal ethnography and ethnological work of the Penn Boasians: Frank Speck, A.I. Hallowell, and their many informal students, and his own ethnographic observations are revealing and apt. -- David Dinwoodie, University of New Mexico * Western Historical Quarterly, Summer 2005 *
At first blush, it seems a very long reach from the aboriginal hunting camps of the Kluane in Canada’s Yukon wilderness to the poststructuralist environs of modern French philosophy. Yet careful reading of Paul Nadasdy’s prodigal new work of contemporary ethnography reveals that geographically, culturally, and philosophically the distance involved is much less than might be expected. -- William Hipwell, Department of Geography, Kyungpook National University, South Korea * Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy, Spring 2005 *
Table of ContentsIllustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Aboriginal-State Relations in Kluane Country: An Overview
2 “It’s Not Really ‘Knowledge’ at All, It’s More a Way of Life”
3 The Politics of TEK: Power and the Integration of Knowledge
4 Counting Sheep: The Ruby Range Sheep Steering Committee and the Construction of Knowledge
5 Knowledge-Integration in Practice: The Case of the Ruby Range Sheep Steering Committee
6 “Just Like Whitemen”: Property and Land Claims in Kluane Country
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
