Fish, law, and colonialism : the legal capture of salmon in British Columbia / / Douglas C. Harris

• Autore: Harris Douglas C (Douglas Colebrook)
• Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001; ©2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 306 p. ) : ill.
• Disciplina: 343.73076
• Soggetto topico: Indians of North America - Fishing - Law and legislation; Indians of North America - Fishing - Law and legislation - British Columbia - History; Salmon fisheries - Law and legislation - British Columbia - History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Legal Capture -- 2 Fish Weirs and Legal Cultures on Babine Lake, 1904-1907 -- 3 The Law Runs Through It: Weirs, Logs, Nets, and Fly Fishing on the Cowichan River, 1877-1937 -- 4 Law and Colonialism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: An engrossing history, Fish, Law, and Colonialism recounts the human conflict over fish and fishing in British Columbia and of how that conflict was shaped by law. Pacific salmon fisheries, owned and managed by Aboriginal peoples, were transformed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by commercial and sport fisheries backed by the Canadian state and its law. Through detailed case studies of the conflicts over fish weirs on the Cowichan and Babine rivers, Douglas Harris describes the evolving legal apparatus that dispossessed Aboriginal peoples of their fisheries. Building upon themes developed in literatures on state law and local custom, and law and colonialism, he examines the contested nature of the colonial encounter on the scale of a river. In doing so, Harris reveals the many divisions both within and between government departments, local settler societies, and Aboriginal communities.Drawing on government records, statute books, case reports, newspapers, missionary papers and a secondary anthropological literature to explore the roots of the continuing conflict over the salmon fishery, Harris has produced a superb, and timely, legal and historical study of law as contested terrain in the legal capture of Aboriginal salmon fisheries in British Columbia.
• Titolo autorizzato: Fish, law, and colonialism
• ISBN: 0-8020-8453-2; 1-282-01476-5; 9786612014765; 1-4426-7491-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455509203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II