Professor Emeritus Bruce Granville Miller recently published in the Brazilian journal anuário antropológico.
The article reflects on the career achievements of social anthropologist Stephen Grant Baines, including their many collaborations and their shared interest in working with Indigenous communities.
Professor Baines’ interest in Indigenous peoples at the borderlands of nation-states mirrors my own, since in both Brasil and Canada, many of the Indigenous communities overlap two countries… Problems for non-state peoples in a statist environment are present worldwide even though the nuances are local. As Professor Baines has demonstrated, an anthropology of the borderlands, both physical and cultural, has been an important development in Indigenous research, particularly in regard to the study of shifting, situational identities.
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