Victims of progress

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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.

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Title Statements

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

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015
Edition:Sixth edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Rowman and Littlefield
Place of Publication:Lanham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiv, 395 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781442226944, 1442226943
oclc:ocn913556563
LC Classification:GN380
Dewey Decimal:305.8

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: Petition for support in opposition to Belo Monte Dam (Brazil) -- Appendix B: Declaration regarding mining and development in Amazonian Peru and Ecuador border regions -- Appendix C: Selected websites of indigenous people and support organizations -- Appendix D: Selected sources for online videos on indigenous peoples.

Subjects

Acculturation Conflit culturel Culture conflict Indigenes Volk Indigenous peoples Politische Mobilisierung Social change SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race… SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies Soziale Bewegung Soziokultureller Wandel