SEMINAR: Anthropology Seminar
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Anthropology Seminar : Atikamekw postcolonial territoriality: A complex co--existence and entanglement between Indigenous and non-Indigenous regimes of values |
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The
Atikamekw
are
an
Algonquian
group,
now
living
in
three
communities
in
the
Upper
St-
Maurice
region
(Québec,
Canada)
and
number
around
6,000
people.
While
they
have
been
“invited”,
all
through
the
colonial
period,
to
gradually
exclude
themselves
from
Nitaskinan,
their
ancestral
lands,
they
maintain
to
this
day
intimate
relationships
with
their
territory.
In
order
to
regain
and
affirm
their
autonomy,
the
Atikamekw
are
engaged
at
three
interrelated
levels:
at
the
national
political
level,
in
arduous
land
claims
negotiations
with
the
federal
and
provincial
governments;
at
the
regional
technical
level,
in
their
attempts
to
conclude
co-management
agreements
with
non-Indigenous
groups
of
interests,
like
the
forestry
industry;
and
at
the
level
of
the
communities/settlements,
on
a
more
social
and
cultural
basis.
The
Atikamekw
are
concerned
with
the
maintenance
and
the
reproduction
of
their
customary
land
tenure
system,
based
on
family
territories,
while
constantly
adapting
it
to
new
constraints,
namely
Quebec’s
administrative
delimitations
and
non-Indigenous
activities
on
Nitaskinan.
The
Atikamekw
family
territories,
as
postcolonial
spaces,
have
thus
become
the
grounds
of
complex
co-existence
and
entanglement
between
Indigenous
and
non-Indigenous
regimes
of
values,
land
tenure
systems,
forms
of
governance,
and
conceptions
of
the
forestland
and
its
non-human
inhabitants.
The
Atikamekw
are
also
concerned
about
the
transmission
of
knowledge,
values
and
ethos
pertaining
to
hunting
and
gathering
to
the
younger
generations
and
explore
novel
avenues
to
meet
that
objective.
These
different
forms
and
levels
of
engagement
will
be
discussed
in
my
paper.
Sylvie
Poirier
is
Professor
in
the
Department
of
Anthropology,
Université
Laval
(Quebec,
Canada).
She
has
done
research
among
Aboriginal
people
in
the
Australian
Western
Desert
since
1980
and
among
the
Atikamekw,
a
First
Nation
in
north-central
Quebec,
since
1990.
She
is
the
author
of
A
World
of
Relationships:
Itineraries,
Dreams,
and
Events
in
the
Australian
Western
Desert
(2005)
and
coeditor
(with
John
Clammer
and
Eric
Schwimmer)
of
Figured
Worlds:
Ontological
Obstacles
in
Intercultural
Relations
(2004).
Since
2006,
she
is
working,
closely
with
the
Council
of
the
Atikamekw
Nation,
on
the
documentation
and
valorization
of
their
traditional
knowledge,
and
exploring
avenues
to
make
it
more
available
to
the
younger
generations.
Speaker(s) |
Professor Sylvie Poirier
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Location |
Social Science Seminar room G207
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Contact |
Katie Glaskin
<[email protected]>
: 64883884
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Start |
Tue, 22 Oct 2013 13:00
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End |
Tue, 22 Oct 2013 14:00
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Submitted by |
Emma <[email protected]>
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Last Updated |
Mon, 21 Oct 2013 11:15
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