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. . . From Time Immemorial

Indigenous Peoples and State Systems

Autor: Richard Perry

Język:

Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: University of Texas Press

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Around the globe, people who have lived in a place 'from time immemorial' have found themselves conf...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Richard Perry

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

1995

strony

318

EAN

9780292765993

ISBN

0292765991

Enbook ID

04873940

Wydawca

University of Texas Press

Waga

794

Wymiary

152 x 229 x 20

Pełny opis

Around the globe, people who have lived in a place 'from time immemorial' have found themselves confronted by and ultimately incorporated within larger state systems. During more than three decades of anthropological study of groups ranging from the Apache to the indigenous peoples of Kenya, Richard J. Perry has sought to understand this incorporation process and, more importantly, to identify the factors that drive it. This broadly synthetic and highly readable book chronicles his findings. Perry delves into the relations between state systems and indigenous peoples in Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Australia. His explorations show how, despite differing historical circumstances, encounters between these state systems and native peoples generally followed a similar pattern: invasion, genocide, displacement, assimilation, and finally some measure of apparent self-determination for the indigenous people - which may, however, have its own pitfalls. After establishing this common pattern, Perry tackles the harder question - why does it happen this way? Defining the state as a nexus of competing interest groups, Perry offers persuasive evidence that competition for resources is the crucial factor in conflicts between indigenous peoples and the powerful constituencies that drive state policies. These findings shed new light on a historical phenomenon that is too often studied in isolated instances. This book will thus be important reading for everyone seeking to understand the new contours of our postcolonial world. Richard J. Perry is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at St. Lawrence University in New York.