Bruce Granville Miller

Witness to the Human Rights Tribunals

How the System Fails Indigenous Peoples

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Produktbeschreibung

Witness to the Human Rights Tribunals offers a behind-the-scenes account of the difficulties facing Indigenous people in human rights tribunals, and the struggles of experts to keep their own testimony from being undermined.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 230mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9780774867764
• ISBN-10: 0774867760
• Artikelnr.: 68463080

Autorenporträt

Bruce Granville Miller is a professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia. He has served as an expert witness in numerous human rights tribunal cases and his work with Indigenous communities in the context of presenting oral history has been particularly instrumental. Among his many publications are Oral History on Trial: Recognizing Aboriginal Narratives in the Courts and "Be of Good Mind": Essays on the Coast Salish.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword / Sharon Venne-Manyfingers
Introduction
Part 1: Anthropology and Law
1 My Life in Anthropology and Law
2 Symbolic Violence, Trauma, and Human Rights
3 Thinning the Evidence, Discrediting the Expert Witness
4 Entering Evidence in an Adversarial System
5 Anthropologists versus Lawyers
Part 2: The Tribunal
6 The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal
7 McCue v. University of British Columbia
8 Menzies v. Vancouver Police Department
Conclusion
Caselaw and Legal Materials; References; Index