First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law
Case Studies, Voices, and Perspectives
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2009
- Category
- Indigenous Peoples, Native American, Cultural, General
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774858465
- Publish Date
- Jan 2009
- List Price
- $34.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774814621
- Publish Date
- Jan 2009
- List Price
- $34.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774814614
- Publish Date
- Aug 2008
- List Price
- $95.00
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Description
First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law explores First Nations perspectives on cultural heritage and issues of reform within and beyond Western law. Written in collaboration with First Nation partners, it contains seven case studies featuring indigenous concepts, legal orders, and encounters with legislation and negotiations; a national review essay; three chapters reflecting on major themes; and a self-reflective critique on the challenges of collaborative and intercultural research. Although the volume draws on specific First Nation experiences, it covers a wide range of topics of concern to Inuit, Metis, and other indigenous peoples.
About the authors
Val Napoleon is a professor, the director of the Indigenous Law Research Unit, and the Law Foundation Chair of Indigenous Justice and Governance in the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria.
Editorial Reviews
The essays in these two volumes [First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law and Protection of First Nations Cultural Heritage] invoke national, international, and First Nations customary law as a channel for reversing and providing redress for a major effect of colonialism. They gather substantial information around this theme in a discourse of advocacy, providing a strong focus for discussion but leaving to one side significant issues that are likely to require nuanced consideration when specific questions concerning particular aspects of heritage require resolution.
Museum Anthropology, Vol. 34, Issue. 1, 2011
Librarian Reviews
First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law: Case Studies, Voices, and Perspectives
This book contains case studies related to the protection, repatriation and control of Canadian First Nations’ cultural heritage. This collaborative investigation involved Aboriginal partners from BC, Alberta and Saskatchewan as well as scholars in law, anthropology and archaeology. Presented are views, first-hand accounts and oral history from a variety of Aboriginal peoples. Insights are given about the importance of the potlatch and residential school issues. The topics of language loss and its reacquisition are presented. Aboriginal participants identify, define and articulate their own concepts, laws and experiences related to the three areas investigated in this book, leading to greater appreciation of, respect for and protection of their varied cultures.Source: The Association of Book Publishers of BC. Canadian Aboriginal Books for Schools. 2009-2010.
