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Dale Turner - This is Not a Peace Pipe - 9780802037923 - V9780802037923
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This is Not a Peace Pipe

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Description for This is Not a Peace Pipe Paperback. This is Not a Peace Pipe is a work that will be controversial amongst indigenous scholars by upsetting the assumptions many have about how best to fight for recognition of their legal and political distinctiveness. It will be debated for years to come. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 280.

How can indigenous people best assert their legal and political distinctiveness? In This is Not a Peace Pipe, Dale Turner explores indigenous intellectual culture and its relationship to, and within, the dominant Euro-American culture. He contends that indigenous intellectuals need to engage the legal and political discourses of the state, respecting both indigenous philosophies and Western European intellectual traditions.

According to Turner, the intellectual conversation about the meaning of indigenous rights, sovereignty, and nationhood must begin by recognizing, firstly, that the discourses of the state have evolved with very little if any participation from indigenous peoples and, secondly, that there are unique ways of understanding the world embedded in indigenous communities. Further, amongst indigenous peoples, a division of intellectual labour must be invoked between philosophers, who possess and practice indigenous forms of knowledge, and those who have been educated in the universities and colleges of the Euro-American world. This latter group, Turner argues, must assert, protect, and defend the integrity of indigenous rights, sovereignty, and nationhood, as they are the ones able to 'speak the language' of the dominant culture while being guided by their indigenous philosophies.

This is Not a Peace Pipe is a work that will be controversial amongst indigenous scholars by upsetting the assumptions many have about how best to fight for recognition of their legal and political distinctiveness. It will be debated for years to come.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802037923
SKU
V9780802037923
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About Dale Turner
Dale Turner is an assistant professor in the Department of Native American Studies and the Department of Government at Dartmouth College.

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