Hunters and Bureaucrats

This book challenges this conventional wisdom that land claims andco-management -- two of the most visible and celebrated elements ofthis restructuring the relationship between Aboriginal peoples and theCanadian state -- will help reverse centuries of inequity. Based onthree years of ethnographic research in the Yukon, the author examinesthe complex relationship between the people of Kluane First Nation, theland and animals, and the state. This book moves beyondconventional models of colonialism, in which the state is treated as amonolithic entity, and instead explores how "state power" isreproduced through everyday bureaucratic practices -- includingstruggles over the production and use of knowledge.