Chapter Five. Apparent Compatibility, Real Incompatibility: Native and Western Versions of History - The Innu Example

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Preface: The Nature of Nature ix
5. Introduction: The Relevance of Ontologies in Anthropology - Reflections on a New Anthropological Field 1
6. PART I. The Reconstruction of Figured Worlds
7. Chapter One. A Circumpolar Night's Dream 23
8. Chapter Two. Ontology, Ancestral Order, and Agencies among the Kukatja of the Australian Western Desert 58
9. Chapter Three. The Politics of Animism 83
10. PART II. Beyond Positional Identities
11. Chapter Four. In the Nature of the Human Landscape: Provenances in the Making of Zanzibar! Politics 111
12. Chapter Five. Apparent Compatibility, Real Incompatibility: Native and Western Versions of History - The Innu Example 132
13. PART III. Non-negotiated Ontologies: Authoring Selves
14. Chapter Six. 'We Live This Experience': Ontological Insecurity and the Colonial Domination of the Innu People of Northern Labrador 149
15. Chapter Seven. The Cosmology of Nature, Cultural Divergence, and the Metaphysics of Community Healing 189
16. PART IV. Negotiating Ontologies, Making Worlds
17. Chapter Eight. The Customary Law of Indigenous Peoples and Modern Law: Rivalry or Reconciliation? 223
18. Chapter Nine. Making a World: The Mâori of Aotearoa/New Zealand 243
19. Epilogue 275
20. Contributors 283
21. Index 285
22. Backmatter 303