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- Title
Sovereign Time, Storied Moments: The Temporalities of Law, Tradition, and Ethnography in Hopi Tribal Court.
- Authors
Richland, Justin B.
- Abstract
This article analyzes the temporalities that emerge in interactions before the tribal court of the Hopi Indian Nation. Particular attention will be paid to the interdiscursive strategies employed by courtroom interlocutors negotiating between adherence to Anglo-legal notions of fact and norm, and the narratives of Hopi tradition regularly raised by litigants in property dispute hearings. It will be argued that such negotiations are at once central to the “sovereign time” that contemporary Hopi law instantiates for the Hopi Nation, but also stand in a complex relationship to the temporalities generated by the “storied moments” of Hopi litigants' tradition discourses. The effect is that these traditions get legally framed as sometimes near to, sometimes far from, the lives and times of Hopi people today. In conclusion, it will be suggested that similar tensions of norm and fact resound in certain critical assessments of anthropology in the 1980s and 1990s, particularly those that focus on the implicit orientations to time and temporality that rest at the heart of ethnography's representational practices and the authority they generate. [time; tradition; law; interdiscursivity; Hopi]
- Subjects
HOPI Indian Reservation (Ariz.); ARIZONA; NATIVE American courts; ETHNOLOGY; HOPI (North American people); SOVEREIGNTY; MANNERS &; customs; POLITICAL anthropology; PRIMITIVE societies
- Publication
PoLAR: Political & Legal Anthropology Review, 2008, Vol 31, Issue 1, p8
- ISSN
1081-6976
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1555-2934.2008.00004.x