| Indigeneity in the Courtroom: Law, Culture, and the Production of Difference in North American Courts Contributor(s): Hamilton, Jennifer A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415979048 ISBN-13: 9780415979047 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2008 Annotation: This book takes a novel approach to the question of how law shapes the contemporary lives of indigenous peoples in North America. Working through a series of legal cases thematically linked by a concern with how indigenous difference - indigeneity - is produced in the courtroom, this book asks the following questions:
Through an examination of contemporary property disputes, the use of indigenous justice in mainstream courts, and the use of genetic technologies to prove or disprove indigenous identities, Indigeneity in the Courtroom provides insight into how law, culture, and the production of difference operate in the early twenty-first century. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Courts - General - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 362.1 |
| LCCN: 2008023485 |
| Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9" (0.70 lbs) 130 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |