Brian Noble

Biography: Brian Noble has worked with Canadian First Nations for the last two decades, addressing matters ranging from traditional knowledges and intellectual property rights, museums and cultural property, relations with the Canadian state and international regimes of law. His current anthropological research addresses the sociopolitical conditions allowing for the rise of indigenous law and autonomy, and the processes animating recognition of indigenous land, resource, and knowledge rights in global arenas. He has worked with Piikani Blackfoot, Shushwap, Kwakwka'awakw, Mi'kmaq, and Cree communities. He is also part of the Crabgrass/Digitaria Collective which is advancing anti-colonial anthropological praxis, and seeking means to reconcile knowledge/power relations of indigenous and non-indigenous peoples and institutions.

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