ANTHRO 9 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Burmese Python, Settler Colonialism, American Ethnological Society
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In this book i make three claims that are drawn from ethnographic research with the. One challenges the very legitimacy of the other. Second, there is a political alternative to recognition, the much sought after and presumed. This alternative is refusal, and it is exercised by people within this book. Third, the way that we come to know the politics and culture of. Indigenous people requires an accounting that neither anthropology nor political science has done robustly: refusal to be canadian or american, settler colonialism - reservations, questions of membership. In the vast expanse of slow-flowing water and drained agricultural lands known as the. Florida everglades, thinking about settler colonialism helps make sense of burmese python hunts and seminole water rights, of scientific restoration models and national. Doing so informs my own ethnographic research on the relationship between peoples" sense of belonging and the ways that they value water in the.
