Sovereignty's Entailments: First Nation State Formation in the Yukon

Download ! Sovereigntys Entailments: First Nation State Formation in the Yukon PDF by ! Paul Nadasdy eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Sovereigntys Entailments: First Nation State Formation in the Yukon 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. 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 socialit

Author	:	Paul Nadasdy
Rating	:	4.21 (761 Votes)
Asin	:	148752207X
Format Type	:	paperback
Number of Pages	:	384 Pages
Publish Date	:	2016-08-26
Language	:	English

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Paul Nadasdy is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University.

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. 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 pe

About the AuthorPaul Nadasdy is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University.