Paul Nadasdy
Biographic Data
| ID | 131220 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Nadasdy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Nadasdy |
| SIGNATURE | NADASDY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6538-8371 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 413 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
How many worlds are there: Ontology, practice, and indeterminacy
Questions about the nature of reality have lately become something of a preoccupation in anthropology. One prominent approach to such questions holds that different peoples inhabit distinct and incommensurable realities, or worlds. Although proponents of the "multiple-worlds thesis" claim to be decolonizing social theory, their approach is beset by significant political and theoretical problems. I illustrate these problems by referring to my own …
Sovereignty's 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. Those agreements, however, are predicated on the assumption that if First Nations are to qualify as governments at all, they must be fundamentally state-l…
First Nations, Citizenship and Animals, or Why Northern Indigenous People Might Not Want to Live in Zoopolis
Recent northern First Nation land claim agreements have created a new category of First Nation citizenship. Although many embrace the category as an essential aspect of First Nation sovereignty, others reject it as a colonial imposition that constrains the possibilities for indigenous politics. There does indeed appear to be a gap between the legal category of First Nation citizenship and northern indigenous peoples' ideas about political society…
Boundaries among Kin: Sovereignty, the Modern Treaty Process, and the Rise of Ethno-Territorial Nationalism among Yukon First Nations
The Canadian government recently concluded a series of land claim and self-government agreements with many First Nations in the Yukon Territory. A result of First Nation claims to land and sovereignty in the region, these modern treaties grant First Nations some real powers of self-governance. They are framed in the idiom of sovereignty, but they also compel First Nation people to accept-in practice if not in theory-a host of Euro-American assump…
Knowing Nature: Conversations at the Intersection of Political Ecology and Science Studies
Political ecology and science studies have found fertile meeting ground in environmental studies. While the two distinct areas of inquiry approach the environment from different perspectives - one focusing on the politics of resource access and the other on the construction and perception of knowledge - their work is actually more closely aligned now than ever before. Knowing Nature brings together political ecologists and science studies scholar…
Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian . Michael E. Harkin , David Rich Lewis
Hunters and Bureaucrats: Power, Knowledge, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Southwest Yukon
Based on three years of ethnographic research in the Yukon, this book examines contemporary efforts to restructure the relationship between aboriginal peoples and the state in Canada. Although it is widely held that land claims and co-management --two of the most visible and celebrated elements of this restructuring -- will help reverse centuries of inequity, this book challenges this conventional wisdom, arguing that land claims and co-managemen…
The gift in the animal: The ontology of hunting and human-animal sociality
Many hunting peoples conceive of hunting as a process of reciprocal exchange between hunters and other-than-human persons, and anthropologists have tended to view such accounts as purely symbolic or metaphorical. To the extent that our theories deny the validity of northern hunters' conceptions of animals and the ontological assumptions on which they are based, however, we legitimize agents of the state when they dismiss the possibility that abor…
Transcending the Debate over the Ecologically Noble Indian: Indigenous Peoples and Environmentalism
Recent debates over the stereotype of the "ecologically noble Indian" have helped illuminate some of the ambiguities and complexities that characterize the relationship between indigenous peoples and environmentalism. But, while scholars engaged in this debate have examined the cultural assumptions underlying Euro-American notions ofindigenousness, they have paid relatively little attention to the equally problematic concepts of environmentalism …
The White Man's Gonna Getcha: The Colonial Challenge to the Crees in Quebec
Book Review| January 01 2004 The White Man's Gonna Getcha: The Colonial Challenge to the Crees in Quebec By Toby Morantz. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. xxviii +372 pp., preface, author's note, epilogue, appendices, substantive notes,reference notes, bibliography, index, illustrations. $75.00 cloth, $27.95 paper.) Paul Nadasdy Paul Nadasdy Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (1): 19…
Reevaluating the Co-management Success Story
The integration of science and traditional knowledge (TEK), a cornerstone of contemporary cooperative management, entails translating First Nation people's life experiences into forms compatible with state wildlife management (e.g., numbers and lines on maps), with all the risks of distortion inherent in any translation process. Even after such a translation, however, knowledge-integration remains fraught with difficulties, many of which seem on …
Against Culture: Development, Politics, and Religion in Indian Alaska
Against Culture: Development, Politics, and Religion in Indian Alaska. Kirk Dombrowski. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. vii. 247 pp., illustrations, notes, references, index
"Property" and Aboriginal Land Claims in the Canadian Subarctic: Some Theoretical Considerations
Many of the world's aboriginal peoples are currently engaged in struggles over land and self-government with the states that encompass them. In Canada, aboriginal people have effectively used the concept of "aboriginal title" to force the government to negotiate land and self-government agreements with them. Such agreements, however, along with the notion of "aboriginal title" itself, are based on the European concept of "property"; they grant Fi…
The Radiant Past: Idology and Reality in Hungary's Road to Capitalism
The gift in the animal: The ontology of hunting and human-animal sociality
Many hunting peoples conceive of hunting as a process of reciprocal exchange between hunters and other-than-human persons, and anthropologists have tended to view such accounts as purely symbolic or metaphorical. To the extent that our theories deny the validity of northern hunters' conceptions of animals and the ontological assumptions on which they are based, however, we legitimize agents of the state when they dismiss the possibility that abor…
Transcending the Debate over the Ecologically Noble Indian: Indigenous Peoples and Environmentalism
Recent debates over the stereotype of the "ecologically noble Indian" have helped illuminate some of the ambiguities and complexities that characterize the relationship between indigenous peoples and environmentalism. But, while scholars engaged in this debate have examined the cultural assumptions underlying Euro-American notions ofindigenousness, they have paid relatively little attention to the equally problematic concepts of environmentalism …
"Property" and Aboriginal Land Claims in the Canadian Subarctic: Some Theoretical Considerations
Many of the world's aboriginal peoples are currently engaged in struggles over land and self-government with the states that encompass them. In Canada, aboriginal people have effectively used the concept of "aboriginal title" to force the government to negotiate land and self-government agreements with them. Such agreements, however, along with the notion of "aboriginal title" itself, are based on the European concept of "property"; they grant Fi…
Sovereignty's 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. Those agreements, however, are predicated on the assumption that if First Nations are to qualify as governments at all, they must be fundamentally state-l…
How many worlds are there: Ontology, practice, and indeterminacy
Questions about the nature of reality have lately become something of a preoccupation in anthropology. One prominent approach to such questions holds that different peoples inhabit distinct and incommensurable realities, or worlds. Although proponents of the "multiple-worlds thesis" claim to be decolonizing social theory, their approach is beset by significant political and theoretical problems. I illustrate these problems by referring to my own …
Boundaries among Kin: Sovereignty, the Modern Treaty Process, and the Rise of Ethno-Territorial Nationalism among Yukon First Nations
The Canadian government recently concluded a series of land claim and self-government agreements with many First Nations in the Yukon Territory. A result of First Nation claims to land and sovereignty in the region, these modern treaties grant First Nations some real powers of self-governance. They are framed in the idiom of sovereignty, but they also compel First Nation people to accept-in practice if not in theory-a host of Euro-American assump…
Hunters and Bureaucrats: Power, Knowledge, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Southwest Yukon
Based on three years of ethnographic research in the Yukon, this book examines contemporary efforts to restructure the relationship between aboriginal peoples and the state in Canada. Although it is widely held that land claims and co-management --two of the most visible and celebrated elements of this restructuring -- will help reverse centuries of inequity, this book challenges this conventional wisdom, arguing that land claims and co-managemen…
First Nations, Citizenship and Animals, or Why Northern Indigenous People Might Not Want to Live in Zoopolis
Recent northern First Nation land claim agreements have created a new category of First Nation citizenship. Although many embrace the category as an essential aspect of First Nation sovereignty, others reject it as a colonial imposition that constrains the possibilities for indigenous politics. There does indeed appear to be a gap between the legal category of First Nation citizenship and northern indigenous peoples' ideas about political society…
Against Culture: Development, Politics, and Religion in Indian Alaska
Against Culture: Development, Politics, and Religion in Indian Alaska. Kirk Dombrowski. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. vii. 247 pp., illustrations, notes, references, index
The White Man's Gonna Getcha: The Colonial Challenge to the Crees in Quebec
Book Review| January 01 2004 The White Man's Gonna Getcha: The Colonial Challenge to the Crees in Quebec By Toby Morantz. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. xxviii +372 pp., preface, author's note, epilogue, appendices, substantive notes,reference notes, bibliography, index, illustrations. $75.00 cloth, $27.95 paper.) Paul Nadasdy Paul Nadasdy Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (1): 19…
The Radiant Past: Idology and Reality in Hungary's Road to Capitalism
Against Culture: Development, Politics, and Religion in Indian Alaska
Against Culture: Development, Politics, and Religion in Indian Alaska. Kirk Dombrowski. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. vii. 247 pp., illustrations, notes, references, index
"Property" and Aboriginal Land Claims in the Canadian Subarctic: Some Theoretical Considerations
Many of the world's aboriginal peoples are currently engaged in struggles over land and self-government with the states that encompass them. In Canada, aboriginal people have effectively used the concept of "aboriginal title" to force the government to negotiate land and self-government agreements with them. Such agreements, however, along with the notion of "aboriginal title" itself, are based on the European concept of "property"; they grant Fi…
Reevaluating the Co-management Success Story
The integration of science and traditional knowledge (TEK), a cornerstone of contemporary cooperative management, entails translating First Nation people's life experiences into forms compatible with state wildlife management (e.g., numbers and lines on maps), with all the risks of distortion inherent in any translation process. Even after such a translation, however, knowledge-integration remains fraught with difficulties, many of which seem on …
The White Man's Gonna Getcha: The Colonial Challenge to the Crees in Quebec
Book Review| January 01 2004 The White Man's Gonna Getcha: The Colonial Challenge to the Crees in Quebec By Toby Morantz. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. xxviii +372 pp., preface, author's note, epilogue, appendices, substantive notes,reference notes, bibliography, index, illustrations. $75.00 cloth, $27.95 paper.) Paul Nadasdy Paul Nadasdy Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (1): 19…
Transcending the Debate over the Ecologically Noble Indian: Indigenous Peoples and Environmentalism
Recent debates over the stereotype of the "ecologically noble Indian" have helped illuminate some of the ambiguities and complexities that characterize the relationship between indigenous peoples and environmentalism. But, while scholars engaged in this debate have examined the cultural assumptions underlying Euro-American notions ofindigenousness, they have paid relatively little attention to the equally problematic concepts of environmentalism …
Hunters and Bureaucrats: Power, Knowledge, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Southwest Yukon
Based on three years of ethnographic research in the Yukon, this book examines contemporary efforts to restructure the relationship between aboriginal peoples and the state in Canada. Although it is widely held that land claims and co-management --two of the most visible and celebrated elements of this restructuring -- will help reverse centuries of inequity, this book challenges this conventional wisdom, arguing that land claims and co-managemen…
The gift in the animal: The ontology of hunting and human-animal sociality
Many hunting peoples conceive of hunting as a process of reciprocal exchange between hunters and other-than-human persons, and anthropologists have tended to view such accounts as purely symbolic or metaphorical. To the extent that our theories deny the validity of northern hunters' conceptions of animals and the ontological assumptions on which they are based, however, we legitimize agents of the state when they dismiss the possibility that abor…
Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian . Michael E. Harkin , David Rich Lewis
Knowing Nature: Conversations at the Intersection of Political Ecology and Science Studies
Political ecology and science studies have found fertile meeting ground in environmental studies. While the two distinct areas of inquiry approach the environment from different perspectives - one focusing on the politics of resource access and the other on the construction and perception of knowledge - their work is actually more closely aligned now than ever before. Knowing Nature brings together political ecologists and science studies scholar…
Boundaries among Kin: Sovereignty, the Modern Treaty Process, and the Rise of Ethno-Territorial Nationalism among Yukon First Nations
The Canadian government recently concluded a series of land claim and self-government agreements with many First Nations in the Yukon Territory. A result of First Nation claims to land and sovereignty in the region, these modern treaties grant First Nations some real powers of self-governance. They are framed in the idiom of sovereignty, but they also compel First Nation people to accept-in practice if not in theory-a host of Euro-American assump…
First Nations, Citizenship and Animals, or Why Northern Indigenous People Might Not Want to Live in Zoopolis
Recent northern First Nation land claim agreements have created a new category of First Nation citizenship. Although many embrace the category as an essential aspect of First Nation sovereignty, others reject it as a colonial imposition that constrains the possibilities for indigenous politics. There does indeed appear to be a gap between the legal category of First Nation citizenship and northern indigenous peoples' ideas about political society…
Sovereignty's 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. Those agreements, however, are predicated on the assumption that if First Nations are to qualify as governments at all, they must be fundamentally state-l…
How many worlds are there: Ontology, practice, and indeterminacy
Questions about the nature of reality have lately become something of a preoccupation in anthropology. One prominent approach to such questions holds that different peoples inhabit distinct and incommensurable realities, or worlds. Although proponents of the "multiple-worlds thesis" claim to be decolonizing social theory, their approach is beset by significant political and theoretical problems. I illustrate these problems by referring to my own …
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