The pleasure of the Crown : anthropology, law and First Nations
Type
Book
Authors
Dara Culhane ( Culhane, Dara )
ISBN 10
0889223157
ISBN 13
9780889223158
Category
General Library Collection
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Publication Year
1998
Publisher
Pages
416
Subject
Indigenous peoples -- Land tenure -- British Columbia
Tags
Indigenous peoples -- Land tenure -- British Columbia, Indigenous peoples -- Land tenure, Indigenous peoples -- British Columbia -- Claims, Indigenous peoples -- Claims, Indigenous title, Gitxsan -- Claims, Wet'suwet'en -- Claims, Gitxsan -- Land tenure, Wet'suwet'en -- Land tenure, Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- British Columbia -- Cases, Law and anthropology, Gitxsan, Land tenure -- Law and legislation, Wet'suwet'en, British Columbia
Description
"Anthropologists have traditionally studied Europe’s others” and the marginalized and excluded within Europe’s and North America’s boundaries. This book turns the anthropologist’s spyglass in the opposite direction: on the law, the institution that quintessentially embodies and reproduces Western power.
The Pleasure of the Crown offers a comprehensive look at how Canadian, particularly British Columbian, society "reveals itself" through its courtroom performances in Aboriginal title litigation. Rather than asking what cultural beliefs and practices First Nations draw on to support their appeals for legal recognition of Aboriginal title, Culhane asks what assumptions, beliefs, and cultural values the Crown relies on to assert and defend their claims to hold legitimate sovereignty and jurisdiction over lands and resources in B.C. What empirical evidence does the Crown present to bolster its arguments? What can thus be learned by anthropologists and the public at large about the historical and contemporary culture of the powerful?
Focusing in particular on the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en case, the book traces the trial of Delgamuukw. v. Regina from its first hearing during 1987 and 1991 to its successful appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, which issued a landmark ruling on the case on December 11, 1997."--Amazon.
The Pleasure of the Crown offers a comprehensive look at how Canadian, particularly British Columbian, society "reveals itself" through its courtroom performances in Aboriginal title litigation. Rather than asking what cultural beliefs and practices First Nations draw on to support their appeals for legal recognition of Aboriginal title, Culhane asks what assumptions, beliefs, and cultural values the Crown relies on to assert and defend their claims to hold legitimate sovereignty and jurisdiction over lands and resources in B.C. What empirical evidence does the Crown present to bolster its arguments? What can thus be learned by anthropologists and the public at large about the historical and contemporary culture of the powerful?
Focusing in particular on the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en case, the book traces the trial of Delgamuukw. v. Regina from its first hearing during 1987 and 1991 to its successful appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, which issued a landmark ruling on the case on December 11, 1997."--Amazon.
Number of Copies
1
Library | Accession No | Call No | Copy No | Edition | Location | Availability |
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Main | 24062 | KEB529.5.L3 C84 1998 | 1 | Yes |