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Victims Of Progress

by: Bodley, John H.

Victims Of Progress

by: Bodley, John H.

ISBN 13:
9780759111486
ISBN 10:
0759111480
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 03/15/2008
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

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Summary

This compelling account of the effects 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. b Victims of Progressb provides a provocative context in which to think about civilization and its costs.

Preface and Acknowledgments	p. ix
A Brief History	p. xiii
Introduction: Indigenous Peoples and Culture Scale	p. 1
Culture Scale, Culture Process, and Indigenous Peoples
Large-Scale versus Small-Scale Society and Culture
The Problem of Global-Scale Society and Culture
Social Scale and Social Power
Negative Development: The Global Pattern
Policy Implications
Progress and Indigenous Peoples	p. 15
Progress: The Commercial Explosion
The Culture of Consumption
Resource Appropriation and Acculturation
The Role of Ethnocentrism
Civilization's Unwilling Conscripts
Cultural Pride versus Progress
The Principle of Stabilization
The Uncontrolled Frontier	p. 37
The Frontier Process
Demographic Impact of the Frontier
We Fought with Spears	p. 57
The Punitive Raid
Wars of Extermination
Guns against Spears
The Extension of Government Control	p. 75
Aims and Philosophy of Administration
Tribal Peoples and National Unity
The Transfer of Sovereignty
Treaty Making
Bringing Government to the Tribes
The Political Integration Process
Anthropology and Native Administration
Land Policies	p. 95
The People-Land Relationship
Land Policy Variables
Cultural Modification Policies	p. 117
These Are the Things That Obstruct Progress
Social Engineering: How to Do It
Economic Globalization	p. 141
Forced Labor: Harnessing the Heathens
Learning the Dignity of Labor: Taxes and Discipline
Creating Progressive Consumers
Promoting Technological Change
Tourism and Indigenous Peoples
The Price of Progress	p. 167
Progress and the Quality of Life
Diseases of Development
Ecocide
Deprivation and Discrimination
The Political Struggle for Indigenous Self-Determination	p. 185
Who Are Indigenous Peoples?
The Initial Political Movements
Creating Nunavut
Kuna Self-Determination
The Political Struggle
The Shuar Solution
Indian Unity in Colombia
The Dene Nation: Land, Not Money
Land Rights and the Outstation Movement in Australia
Philippine Tribals: No More Retreat
The International Arena
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Petroleum, the Commercial World, and Indigenous People	p. 231
Petroleum: The Unsustainable Foundation of the Commercial World
The Gwich' in and Oil Development in the Sacred Place Where Life Begins
Petroleum Development and Indigenous Rights in Ecuador
Global Warming and Indigenous Peoples
The Indigenous Response to Global Warming
Human Rights and the Politics of Ethnocide	p. 251
The Realists: Humanitarian Imperialists and Scientists
The World Bank: Operational Manual 2005 and False Assurances
The Idealist Preservationists
You Can't Leave Them Alone: The Realists Prevail
Indigenous Peoples' Rights Advocates
Voluntary Isolation in the Twenty-First Century
Conclusion
Appendix	p. 291
Bibliography	p. 299
Index	p. 325
About the Author	p. 341
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Victims Of Progress

Victims Of Progress

9780759111486

0759111480

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