Unsettling Mobility - Mediating Mi'kmaw Sovereignty in Post-contact Nova Scotia

Since contact, attempts by institutions such as the British Crown and the Catholic Church to assimilate indigenous peoples have served to mark those people as "other" than the settler majority. In Unsettling Mobility, Michelle A. Lelièvre examines how mobility has complicated, disrupted, and - at times - served this contradiction at the core of the settler colonial project.

About the author

Michelle A. Lelièvre is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and the American Studies Program at the College of William and Mary. She has published in Anthropological Theory, the Journal of Archaeological Science, and Anthropologica.

Summary

Since contact, attempts by institutions such as the British Crown and the Catholic Church to assimilate indigenous peoples have served to mark those people as "other" than the settler majority. In Unsettling Mobility, Michelle A. Lelievre examines how mobility has complicated, disrupted, and - at times - served this contradiction at the core of the settler colonial project.

Product details

• Authors: Michelle Leli¿e, Michelle A. Leliaevre, Michelle Lelievre, Michelle Lelièvre, Michelle LeliFvre
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9780816534852
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-3485-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Archaeology of Indigenous-Colo; Archaeology of Indigenous-Colonial Interactions in the Americas; Archaeology of Indigenous-Colo; Archaeology of Indigenous-Colonial Interactions in the Americas
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology