Books about Tutelage from Amazon.com

This digital document is an article from The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, published by Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Assn. on August 1, 1997. The length of the article is 6617 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: The administration of Indian affairs by the Canadian state has embodied a form of coercive tutelage designed to effect the social, economic and cultural transformation of aboriginal peoples and their communities. Working from the premise that aboriginal peoples did not know what was in their own best interests, federal officials imposed bureaucratic systems that sought to regulate almost every aspect of Indians' lives, from the rearing of children to the management of material resources. This system of state tutelage in turn generated deep and widespread resistance from aboriginal communities, which frequently served to frustrate the realization of the federal government's objectives. Nevertheless, not all aspects of federal Indian administration have been uniformly resisted by all aboriginal communities or by all members of given communities. This raises the question of whether instances of non-resistance or even of active co-operation on the part of some aboriginal people with certain government policies, initiatives or procedures comprise acts or habits of co-optation that directly or indirectly compromise the attainment of social justice for the greater aboriginal population. This essay employs a case study to examine the circumstances under which a unique aboriginal initiative to transform a former Indian residential school has been undermined by co-optative state processes. The essay considers what is at stake theoretically and ethnographically for anthropologists and politically for aboriginal communities if co-optation is operationally defined as an associated element of relations of tutelage and resistance.

Citation Details
Title: Tutelage, resistance and co-optation in Canadian Indian administration.
Author: Noel Dyck
Publication:The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 1997
Publisher: Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Assn.
Volume: v34 Issue: n3 Page: p333(16)

Distributed by Thomson Gale.
Price: $5.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]