"Around the planet, Indigenous people are using old and new technologies to amplify their voices and broadcast information to a global audience. This is the first portrait of a powerful international movement that looks both inward and outward, helping to preserve ancient langua…
Bioprospecting - the exchange of plants for corporate promises of royalties or community development assistance - has been lauded as a way to develop new medicines while offering southern nations and indigenous communities an incentive to preserve their rich biodiversity. But ca…
Bioprospecting - the exchange of plants for corporate promises of royalties or community development assistance - has been lauded as a way to develop new medicines while offering southern nations and indigenous communities an incentive to preserve their rich biodiversity. But ca…
"Until the close of the nineteenth century, French colonial theory was based on the idea of assimilation, which gave France the responsibility for "civilizing" its colonies by absorbing them administratively and culturally. By the turn of the twentieth century, this idea had giv…
While science has achieved a remarkable understanding of nature, affording humans an astonishing technological capability, it has led, through Euro-American global domination, to the muting of other cultural views and values. This text incorporates what is known about this devel…
"While science has achieved a remarkable understanding of nature, affording humans an astonishing technological capability, it has led, through Euro-American global domination, to the muting of other cultural views and values, even threatening their continued existence. There is…
This book unravels the historical record to clarify the current impasse in negotiations between Aboriginal peoples and the state.
This book unravels the historical record to clarify the current impasse in negotiations between Aboriginal peoples and the state.
"The modern regulations and pervading attitudes that control native rights in the Americas may appear unrelated to the European colonial rule, but traces of the colonizers' cultural, religious, and economic agendas remain. Patricia Seed likens this situation to a pentimento - a …
An illuminating examination of colonizations ongoing cultural legacy. Patricia Seed examines how European countries, primarily England, Spain, and Portugal, differed in their colonization of the Americas, with the English appropriating land, while the Spanish and Portuguese atte…
"An overview of the history of the indigenous peoples of Chiapas from just prior to the Spanish invasion through the early-20th century. Makes excellent use of primary sources and includes a large appendix with Spanish-language documents and oral tradition spanning 1527-1986"--H…
"An overview of the history of the indigenous peoples of Chiapas from just prior to the Spanish invasion through the early-20th century. Makes excellent use of primary sources and includes a large appendix with Spanish-language documents and oral tradition spanning 1527-1986"--H…
A World-Systems Reader: New Perspectives on Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, I…
by So, Alvin Y., Misra, Joya, Flint, Colin, Thompson, William R., Hall, Thomas D., Hall, Thomas D., Chase-Dunn, Christopher, Shelley, Fred M., Peregrine, Peter N., Boswell, Terry, Ward, Carol, Smith, David A., Bartley, Tim, Bergesen, Albert, Dunaway, Wilma A., K. Chiu, Stephen W., Grimes, Peter, Laczko, Leslie S., Solomon, Yodit, Stander, Elon, Straussfogel, Debra
This book brings together some of the most influential research from the world-systems perspective. The authors survey and analyze new and emerging topics from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, from political science to archaeology. Each analytical essay is written in a…
"This book brings together some of the most influential new research from the world-systems perspective. The authors survey and analyze new and emerging topics from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, from political science to archaeology. Each analytical essay is written…