Victims of progress

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This compelling account of how technology and development affect indigenous peoples throughout the world provides a provocative context in which students can think about civilization and its costs.

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Title Statements

Full title :Victims of progress / John H. Bodley.

Summary

This compelling account of how technology and development affect indigenous peoples throughout the world provides a provocative context in which students can think about civilization and its costs.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2014
Edition:Sixth edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Rowman & Littlefield
Place of Publication:Lanham, Maryland
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2014

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (411 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781442226920, 1442226927, 9781442226944, 1442226943
oclc:on1014044977
LC Classification:GN380
Dewey Decimal:305.8

Title Page -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Global Warming and Indigenous Peoples -- Human Rights and the Politics of Ethnocide -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Appendix D -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

Subjects

Acculturation Conflit culturel Culture conflict Indigenous peoples Social change SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race… SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies