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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/23555
Title: Contested Identities of ‘Indians’ and ‘Whitemen’ at James Bay, or the Power of Reason, Hybridity and Agency
Authors: Feit, Harvey A.
Department: Anthropology
Keywords: Identities;Difference;Relationships;Hybridity;Power;Reason;Law;James Bay Crees;Quebec
Publication Date: 2004
Publisher: Senri Ethnological Studies (Osaka)
Citation: Feit, Harvey A. 2004. “Contested Identities of ‘Indians’ and ‘Whitemen’ at James Bay, or the Power of Reason, Hybridity and Agency.” In Senri Ethnological Studies (Osaka) 66: 109-126.
Abstract: In "We Have Never Been Modern" Bruno Latour notes the connections, separations and the "hybridity" of colonial uses of discourses and practices of modernity (Latour 1993). In this paper I examine discourses about identities and practical relationships that develop between institutions of a modern national state society and an Indigenous people. I suggest that the modern state/developer and James Bay Cree claims about each other's identities, their efforts to differentiate identities, and their relational practices, implicate them in both explicit and implicit recognition of complex differences, similarities, hybridity and agency. Yet there are numerous ways that this happens. The distinctions and similarities often are closely linked to the way that moralities locate and legitimate an active subject.
Description: This article is online as an Open Access resource at the National Museum of Ethnography Repository (Osaka). The repository is at https://minpaku.ac.jp/english/research/sharing . The article is at: https://minpaku.repo.nii.ac.jp/index.php?action=pages_view_main&active_action=repository_view_main_item_snippet&index_id=255&pn=1&count=20&order=7&lang=japanese&page_id=13&block_id=21 .
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/23555
ISSN: 0387-6004
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