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Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State

Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State

Canessa, Andrew
Picq, Manuela Lavinas
Corntassel, Jeff Ganohalidoh

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AnthropologyGeneral Political ScienceIndigenous Studies

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ISBN10: 0816556717
ISBN13: 9780816556717
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: Jan 13 2026
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.91 Depth: 8.91
Language: English
Although Indigenous peoples are often perceived as standing outside political modernity, Savages and Citizens takes the provocative view that Indigenous people have been fundamental to how contemporary state sovereignty was imagined, theorized, and practiced.

Delving into European political philosophy, comparative politics, and contemporary international law, the book shows how the concept of indigeneity has shaped the development of the modern state. The exclusion of Indigenous people was not a collateral byproduct; it was a political project in its own right. The book argues that indigeneity is a political identity relational to modern nation-states and that Indigenous politics, although marking the boundary of the state, are co-constitutive of colonial processes of state-making. In showing how indigeneity is central to how the international system of states operates, the book forefronts Indigenous peoples as political actors to reject essentializing views that reduce them to cultural survivors rooted in the past.

With insights drawn from diverse global contexts and empirical research from Bolivia and Ecuador, this work advocates for the relevance of Indigenous studies within political science and argues for an ethnography of sovereignty in anthropology. Savages and Citizens makes a compelling case for the centrality of Indigenous perspectives to understand the modern state from political theory to international studies.

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