Preface: Becoming Like the State

Preface: Becoming Like the State

[...]contributors re-examine anthropologi- cal reckonings with sovereignty by questioning analyses that privilege a monopoly on violence as the principal analytic at the expense of broad issues of recognition and relationship that themselves lend sovereignty (see Cobb 2005; Young 2001). Since 1992 A...

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Published in:Oceania 2013-11, Vol.83 (3), p.153-157
Main Authors: Fisher, Daniel, Timmer, Jaap
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
Acknowledgment
Indigenous peoples
Monopolies
Native peoples
Periodical publishing
Power
Recognition
Rights
Services
Social privilege
Sovereignty
Theater
Violence
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Summary:[...]contributors re-examine anthropologi- cal reckonings with sovereignty by questioning analyses that privilege a monopoly on violence as the principal analytic at the expense of broad issues of recognition and relationship that themselves lend sovereignty (see Cobb 2005; Young 2001). Since 1992 Australian Aboriginal communities have been engaged in a complex and fraught legal process for the recognition of their traditional rights to country ('native title'), through which identities are objectified by means of various kinds of narrative.
ISSN:0029-8077
1834-4461