Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xvi, 341 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

1. This compelling account of the effect of technology and development on indigenous peoples throughout the world examines major issues of intervention: social engineering, economic development, self-determination, health and disease, and ecocide. Victims of Progress provides a provocative context in which to think about civilization and its costs.

Subject

1. Indigenous peoples
2. Culture conflict
3. Acculturation
4. Social change
5. Acculturation
6. Culture conflict
7. Indigenous peoples
8. Social change
9. Indigenes Volk
10. Kulturkonflikt
11. Akkulturation
12. Sozialer Wandel
13. Iwi taketake

Contents

1. Introduction: Indigenous peoples and culture scale -- Progress and indigenous peoples -- The uncontrolled frontier -- We fought with spears -- The extension of government control -- Land policies -- Cultural modification policies -- Economic globalization -- The price of progress -- The political struggle for indigenous self-determination -- Petroleum, the commercial world, and indigenous peoples -- Human rights and the politics of ethocide.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-324) and index.