Sovereignty's Entailments

First Nation State Formation in the Yukon

Paul Nadasdy

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University of Toronto Press
21 November 2017

Law; Law & society; Law as it applies to other professions; Laws of Specific jurisdictions; Legal system: general

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-like, and they frame First Nation powers in the culturally contingent idiom of sovereignty.

Based on over five years of ethnographic research carried out in the southwest Yukon, Sovereignty's Entailments is a close ethnographic analysis of everyday practices of state formation in a society whose members do not take for granted the cultural entailments of sovereignty. 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 people's relationships with one another, animals, and the land.

By: Paul Nadasdy
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 600g
ISBN: 9781487522070
ISBN 10: 148752207X
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 21 November 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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

""In Sovereignty’s Entailments, Paul Nadasdy leverages an impressive array of scholarship from political theory, Indigenous studies and anthropology to caution against the widespread embrace of ""Indigenous sovereignty"" as the best vehicle for Indigenous empowerment especially in Canada’s Yukon Territory."" - Danielle DiNovelli-Lang, Carleton University (Anthropologica, vol 61)