Entangled Territorialities

Negotiating Indigenous Lands in Australia and Canada

Edited by Françoise Dussart & Sylvie Poirier
Categories: Indigenous Studies, Social Sciences, Anthropology, Law & Legal Studies, Law & Society
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Hardcover : 9781487501693, 272 pages, March 2017
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Table of contents

Foreword
John Borrows

1. Knowing and Managing the Land: The Conundrum of Coexistence and Entanglement
Françoise Dussart and Sylvie Poirier

2. Dialogues on Surviving: Eeyou Hunters’ Ways of Engaging Developers and Eeyou Youth
Harvey A. Feit

3. The Endurance of Relational Ontology: Encounters between Eeyouch and Sport Hunters
Colin H. Scott

4. Australia’s Indigenous Protected Areas: Resistance, Articulation and Entanglement in the Context of Natural Resource Management
Frances Morphy

5. Mediation between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Another Analysis of "two-way" Conservation in Northern Australia
Elodie Fache

6. Cultural Politics of Land and Animals in Treaty Eight Territory (Northern Alberta, Canada)
Clinton N. Westman

7. Entanglements in Coast Salish Ancestral Territories
Brian Thom

8. Transmission of Knowledge, Clans and Lands among the Yol?u (Northern Territory, Australia)
Sachiko Kubota

9. Alien relations: Ecological and Ontological Dilemmas Posed for Indigenous Australians in the Management of "Feral" Camels on their Lands
Petronella Vaarzon-Morel

10. Nehirowisiw Territoriality: Negotiating and Managing Entanglement and Co- existence.
Sylvie Poirier

11. Is There a Role for Anthropology in Cultural Reproduction? Maps, Mining and the ‘Cultural Future’ in Central Australia
Nicolas Peterson

Afterword
Michael Asch

Contributors

Description

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.