Audra Simpson

Mohawk Interruptus

Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Combining political theory with ethnographic research among the Mohawks of Kahnawake, a reserve community in what is now southwestern Quebec, this book examines their struggles to articulate and maintain political sovereignty through centuries of settler colonialism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 392g
• ISBN-13: 9780822356554
• ISBN-10: 0822356554
• Artikelnr.: 39563495

Autorenporträt

Audra Simpson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. She is a coeditor, with Andrea Smith, of Theorizing Native Studies, also published by Duke University Press.  

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
1. Indigenous Interruptions: Mohawk Nationhood, Citizenship, and the State
1
2. A Brief History of Land, Meaning, and Membership in Iroquoia and
Kahnawà:ka 37
3. Constructing Kahnawà:ka as an "Out-of-the-Way" Place: Ely S. Parker,
Lewis Henry Morgan, and the Writing of the Iroquois Confederacy 67
4. Ethnographic Refusal: Anthropological Need 95
5. Borders, Cigarettes, and Sovereignty 115
6. The Gender of the Flint: Mohawk Nationhood and Citizenship in the Face
of Empire 147
Conclusion. Interruptus 177
Appendix. A Note on Materials and Methodology 195
Notes 201
References 229
Index 251