Victims of progress

Summary: "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."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 9780759111486 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0759111480 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xvi, 341 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: Lanham : Altamira Press, c2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

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

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Introduction: Indigenous Peoples and Culture Scale -- 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 -- 2. Progress and Indigenous Peoples 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 -- 3. The Uncontrolled Frontier -- The Frontier Process -- Demographic Impact of the Frontier -- 4. We Fought with Spears -- The Punitive Raid -- Wars of Extermination -- Guns against Spears -- 5. The Extension of Government Control -- Aims andPhilosophy of Administration -- Tribal Peoples and National Unity -- TheTransfer of Sovereignty -- Treaty Making -- Bringing Government to the Tribes -- The Political Integration Process -- Anthropology and Native Administration -- 6. Land Policies -- The People-Land Relationship -- Land Policy Variables -- 7. Cultural Modification Policies -- These Are the Things That Obstruct Progress -- Social Engineering: How to Do It -- 8. Economic Globalization -- Forced Labor: Harnessing the Heathens -- Learning the Dignity of Labor: Taxes and Discipline -- Creating Progressive Consumers -- Promoting Technological Change -- Tourism and Indigenous Peoples -- 9. The Price of Progress -- Progress and the Quality of Life -- Diseases of Development -- Ecocide -- Deprivation and Discrimination -- 10. The Political Struggle for Indigenous Self-Determination -- 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 -- 11. Petroleum, the Commercial World, and Indigenous Peoples -- 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 -- 12. Human Rights and the Politics of Ethnocide -- 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.