Abstract This review examines four recently published ethnographies of North American Indian communities in both the United States and Canada, each reflecting the ways in which sovereignty and self-determination are realized and compromised. The evolving indigenous polities discussed in these works each articulate with the nation-state that encompasses them in different ways, in large part by virtue of the kinds of resources the communities are perceived to manage by salient institutions in the dominant society. These works are also insightful concerning the possibilities and limitations of ethnography in highly politicized settings.

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表现形式的政治，人种学实践以及土著国家关系

摘要这篇综述考察了美国和加拿大的四个北美印第安社区最近出版的民族志，每个民族志都反映了实现和损害主权和自决的方式。这些作品中所讨论的不断发展的土著政体都与以不同方式包含它们的民族国家相呼应，这在很大程度上是由于优势社会中显着的机构认为社区管理着各种资源。这些作品对于民族政治在高度政治化的环境中的可能性和局限性也很有见地。