Samantha Sanft

Postdoctoral Associate

Publications

Sanft, Samantha M.
2021 The Circulation of Shell and Copper Objects in the circa 1450-1600 Haudenosaunee Homeland. Ph.D. Dissertation, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Birch, Jennifer, Sturt W. Manning, Samantha Sanft, Megan A. Conger
*2021 Refined Radiocarbon Chronologies for Northern Iroquoian Site Sequences: Implications for Coalescence, Conflict, and the Reception of European Goods. American Antiquity 86(1):61-89.

Sanft, Samantha M.
2020 Funk Foundation Final Report: Radiocarbon Re-Dating and Bayesian Chronological Modeling, 16th Century Cayuga-Region Sites. Report on file, Funk Foundation. Ballston Spa, New York.

Manning, Sturt W., Jennifer Birch, Megan A. Conger, Samantha Sanft
*2020 Resolving Time Among Non-Stratified Short-Duration Contexts on a Radiocarbon Plateau: Possibilities and Challenges from the AD 1480-1630 Example and Northeastern North America. Radiocarbon 62(6):1785-1807.

Samantha M. Sanft
2020 Dating the Circulation of Shell and Copper Beads in the Fifteenth- through Seventeenth-Century Northeast. The SAA Archaeological Record 20(4):62-66.

Birch, Jennifer, Sturt W. Manning, Megan A. Conger, Samantha Sanft
2020 Introduction: Why are we Dating Iroquoia? Building chronologies to write enhanced archaeological histories. The SAA Archaeological Record 20(4):38-39.

Manning, Sturt W., Jennifer Birch, Megan A. Conger, Michael W. Dee, Carol Griggs, Carla S. Hadden, Alan G. Hogg, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Samantha Sanft, Peter Steier, Eva M. Wild
*2018 Radiocarbon Re-dating of Contact Era Iroquoian History in Northeastern North America. Science Advances 4(12). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav0280.

Sanft, Samantha M.
*2018 Beads and Pendants from Indian Fort Road: Native Cultural Continuity and Innovation in the Sixteenth Century Haudenosaunee Homeland. Northeast Anthropology 85-86:1-20.

Sanft, Samantha M.
2013 Beads and Pendants from Indian Fort Road: A Sixteenth Century Cayuga Site in Tompkins County, New York. M.A. Thesis, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

*peer-reviewed publications

Paul Nadasdy

Professor

Publications

Books

2017. Sovereignty's Entailments: First Nation State Formation in the Yukon. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2011. (co-edited with M. Goldman and M. Turner). Knowing Nature: Conversations at the Intersection of Political Ecology and Science Studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2003. Hunters and Bureaucrats: Power, Knowledge, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Southwest Yukon. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

Articles

2021 How Many Worlds are There? Ontology, Practice and Indeterminacy. American Ethnologist 48(4).
2016. First Nations, Citizenship, and Animals, or Why Northern Indigenous People Might Not Want to Live in Zoopolis. Canadian Journal of Political Science 49(1): 1-20.
2012. Boundaries among Kin: Sovereignty, the Modern Treaty Process, and the Rise of Ethno-Territorial Nationalism among Yukon First Nations. Comparative Studies in Society and History 54(3): 499-532.
2007. The Gift in the Animal: The Ontology of Hunting and Human-Animal Sociality . American Ethnologist 34(1): 25-43. (Republished in Japanese as “Dobutsu ni Hisomu Zoyo.” In Hito to Doubutsu no Jinruigaku [Anthropology of Human and Animal]. Translated by Shiaki Kondo. K. Okuno, M. Yamaguchi and S. Kondo, eds. Pp. 291-360. Kanagawa, Japan: Shumpusha Publishing, 2012).

2005. The Anti-Politics of TEK: The Institutionalization of Co-management Discourse and Practice. Anthropologica 47(2): 215-232. (Republished in Natural Resources and Aboriginal People in Canada: Readings, Cases and Commentary. R. Bone and R. Anderson, eds. 2^nd (revised) edition. York, Ontario: Captus Press, 2009).

2005. Transcending the Debate over the Ecologically Noble Indian: Indigenous Peoples and Environmentalism. Ethnohistory 52(2): 291-331. (Republished in Religion and the Environment, vol. 2. R. Gottlieb, ed. London: Routledge, 2010).

2003. Reevaluating the Co-Management Success Story. Arctic. 56(4): 367-380.

2002. ‘Property’ and Aboriginal Land Claims in the Canadian Subarctic: Some Theoretical Considerations. American Anthropologist 104(1): 247-261.

1999. The Politics of TEK: Power and the ‘Integration’ of Knowledge. Arctic Anthropology 36(1-2):1-18. (Republished in Natural Resources and Aboriginal People in Canada: Readings, Cases and Commentary. R. Bone and R. Anderson, eds. 1^st and 2^nd (revised) editions. York, Ontario: Captus Press, 2003 and 2009).

Chapters in Edited Volumes

2017. Imposing Territoriality: First Nation Land Claims and the Transformation of Human-Environment Relations in the Yukon. In Ice Blink: Navigating Northern Environmental History. S. Bocking and B. Martin, eds. Pp. 333-376. Calgary: University of Calgary Press.

2011. “We Don’t Harvest Animals; We Kill Them:” Agricultural Metaphors and the Politics of Wildlife Management in the Yukon. In Knowing Nature: Conversations at the Intersection of Political Ecology and Science Studies. M. Goldman, P. Nadasdy, M. Turner, eds. Pp. 135-151. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

2011. Application of Environmental Knowledge: The Politics of Constructing Society/Nature. In Knowing Nature: Conversations at the Intersection of Political Ecology and Science Studies. M. Goldman, P. Nadasdy, M. Turner, eds. Pp. 129-133. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

2008. Wildlife as Renewable Resource: Competing Conceptions of Wildlife, Time, and Management in the Yukon. In Timely Assets: The Politics of Resources and their Temporalities. E. Ferry and M. Limbert, eds. Pp. 75-106. Santa Fe, NM: School of Advanced Research Press.

2008. The Antithesis of Restitution? A Note on the Dynamics of Land Negotiations in the Yukon, Canada. In The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution: Restoring What was Ours. D. Fay and D. James, eds. Pp. 85-97. London: Routledge.

2007. Adaptive Co-Management and the Gospel of Resilience. In Adaptive Co-Management: Collaboration, Learning, and Multilevel Governance. D. Armitage, F. Berkes, N. Doubleday, eds. Pp. 208-227. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

2006. The Case of the Missing Sheep: Time, Space, and the Politics of “Trust” in Co-Management Practice. In Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Natural Resource Management. C. Menzies, ed. Pp. 127-151. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.

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Education

Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 2001

Departments and programs

Anthropology

Keywords

Anthropology of North American Indians and the circumpolar North, anthropology of science and knowledge, environmental/ecological anthropology, indigenous-state relations, ethnography of the state, the politics of wildlife management, political economy/ecology, property, territoriality, citizenship, hunting/hunting societies

Samantha Sanft

Postdoctoral Associate

Publications

Education

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Paul Nadasdy

Professor

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Education

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