Archive for the ‘Scholarship and insights’ Category
Jessica R. Cattelino, ‘Anthropologies of the United States’, Annual Review of Anthropology 39 (2010). This article reviews recent research in sociocultural anthropology that has been conducted in and about the United States. I show that anthropologists of the United States have been concerned to locate the anthropological field in three ways: spatial investigations of region, […]
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Matthew L. M. Fletcher, ‘Consent and Resistance: The Modern Struggle between American Indian Tribes and the United States’, MSU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-16 (2010) Abstract After a few years of late 19th century confusion, the United States Supreme Court held definitively in 1898 that the United States Constitution does not bind Indian tribes. […]
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Stephen Allen and Alexandra Xanthaki (ed.), Reflections on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2010) The adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the United Nations General Assembly on 13 September 2007 was acclaimed as a major success for the United Nations system given the […]
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Simon Pooley, ‘Pressed Flowers: Notions of Indigenous and Alien Vegetation in South Africa’s Western Cape, 1902-45 ‘, Journal of Southern African Studies 36, 3 (2010) Abstract In the early twentieth century, botanists in South Africa’s Western Cape sought urgently to popularise and protect the region’s unique indigenous Fynbos flora. Plants imported from the 1840s, some […]
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Robert Nichols, ‘Postcolonial Studies and the Discourse of Foucault: Survey of a Field of Problematization’, Foucault Studies 9 (2010). ABSTRACT: This paper presents a critical survey of the use and interpretation of the work of Michel Foucault in the field of postcolonial studies. The paper uses debates about Foucault’s legacy and his contributions (or lack […]
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Andrea Smith, ‘Decolonization in Unexpected Places: Native Evangelicalism and the Rearticulation of Mission’, American Indian Quarterly 62, 3 (2010). Abstract In Native studies, many scholars propose “decolonization” as a guiding principle for Native scholarship and activism. This work generally presumes a non-Christian framework for decolonization, because the imposition of Christianity within Native communities is understood […]
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Julie Evans, ‘Where Lawlessness Is Law: The Settler-Colonial Frontier As a Legal Space of Violence ‘, Australian Feminist Law Journal 30 (2009), 3-22. Part of the introduction: In understanding international law as a key legitimating discourse of colonialism, this paper argues the need to view settler-colonial frontiers within a conceptual field that directs as much […]
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Amanda Nettelbeck and Russell Smandych, ‘Policing Indigenous Peoples on Two Colonial Frontiers: Australia’s Mounted Police and Canada’s North-West Mounted Police’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 43, 2 (August 2010), pp. 356-375. Abstract This article examines the ways in which colonial policing and punishment of Indigenous peoples evolved as an inherent part of the […]
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Mark Finnane, Jonathan Richards ‘Aboriginal Violence and State Response: Histories, Policies and Legacies in Queensland 1860–1940’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 43, 2 (August 2010), pp. 238-262 Abstract During the long era of ‘protection’ (enacted in 1897, flourishing in the interwar years and with effects continuing to this day) policy towards Australian Indigenous […]
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Christopher Hilliard, ‘Licensed Native Interpreter: The Land Purchaser as Ethnographer in Early-20th-Century New Zealand’, Journal of Pacific History 45, 2 (2010) Abstract Many of the cross-cultural intermediaries who figure in the New Zealand historiography operated in ‘middle ground’ situations. However, in New Zealand as elsewhere in the Pacific, intermediaries also had roles to play in […]
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