Indigeneity in the Courtroom - Law, Culture, Production of Difference in North American Courts

Informationen zum Autor Jennifer A. Hamilton has a PhD in Anthropology from Rice University and has written numerous articles on law, race, indigeneity, and biomedicine. Currently, Dr. Hamilton is Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Director of the Law Program at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Klappentext The central question of this book is when and how does indigeneity in its various iterations - cultural, social, political, economic, even genetic - matter in a legal sense? Indigeneity in the Courtroom focuses on the legal deployment of indigenous difference in US and Canadian courts in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Through ethnographic and historical research, Hamilton traces dimensions of indigeneity through close readings of four legal cases, each of which raises important questions about law, culture, and the production of difference. She looks at the realm of law, seeking to understand how indigeneity is legally produced and to apprehend its broader political and economic implications. Zusammenfassung This book takes a novel approach to the question of how law shapes the contemporary lives of indigenous peoples in North America by examining property disputes, the use of indigenous justice in mainstream courts, and the use of genetic technologies to prove or disprove indigenous identities. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Tracking Indigeneity in the Courtroom 2. Banishment: Indigenous Justice and Indigenous Difference in Washington v. Roberts and Guthrie 3. Healing the Bishop: Consent and the Legal Erasure of Colonial History in R. v. O’Connor 4. Resettling Musqueam Park: Property, Culture, and Difference in Glass v. Musqueam Indian Band 5. Of Caucasoids and Kin: Kennewick Man, Race, and Genetic Indigeneity in Bonnichsen v. United States

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer A Hamilton, Jennifer A. Hamilton, Jennifer A. (Hampshire College Hamilton, Jennifer Anne Hamilton, HAMILTON JENNIFER A, Hamilton Jennifer A.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.11.2008
• EAN: 9780415979047
• ISBN: 978-0-415-97904-7
• No. of pages: 130
• Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politic; Indigenous Peoples and Politics; Indigenous Peoples and Politic
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Anthropology, Society & culture: general, LAW / Courts, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Rechtssysteme: Gerichte und Prozessordnung, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, International Law, Jurisprudence & general issues, History of the Americas, Society and culture: general, Jurisprudence and general issues