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Victims of Progress John H. Bodley

Victims of Progress By John H. Bodley

Victims of Progress by John H. Bodley


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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. Victims of Progress provides a provocative context in which to think about civilization and its costs.

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Victims of Progress by John H. Bodley

A newer edition of this book is available at the following web address: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442226937 Victims of Progress provides a global overview of the struggle between small-scale indigenous societies and the colonists and corporate developers that invaded their territories over the past 200 years to extract resources. It shows how these small-scale societies have survived by organizing politically to defend their basic human rights, and shows that they are now being impacted by oil and natural gas development and tropical deforestation, as well as global warming. 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. Victims of Progress provides a provocative context in which to think about civilization and its costs. In this new fifth edition, Bodley provides extensive new discussions on the increased political power of the Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic, the role of indigenous people in the Arctic Council, shifts in Aboriginal rights in Australia, and many new developments on the impact of global warming on indigenous populations around the world.

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Victims of Progress provides clear and understandable answers to how and why indigenous peoples of the world have fallen victim to the ever modernizing global-scale culture of the past 500 years. It also illuminates their efforts and prospects for the future as indigenous people. At the same time, the book examines conflict between peoples, often mislabeled as ethnic or religious conflict, to reveal the true and most common seeds of conflict in the past, and present, across the globe. Victims of Progress is a book that engages students' interest. -- Charles Ettner, California State University, Fresno Victims of Progress is one of those rare anthropology books that influences students for the rest of their lives. John H. Bodley courageously challenges old myths and offers readers a view of the world through a different lens. This updated fifth edition is a must-read for anyone who cares about the futures of indigenous peoples. -- Thomas N. Headland, Anthropologist, SIL International, and Adjunct Professor of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Victims of Progress is a rightly unapologetic survey of some of the worst protracted cases of genocide, ethnocide, and ecocide in past and current human history, cases which have been ignored entirely in the public forum and that have ashamedly been downplayed within much of the academic discourse. Any person who considers themselves an integral, meaningful, and responsible member of the global community should read this book. -- Fotini Katsanos, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

About John H. Bodley

John H. Bodley is a cultural anthropologist and Regents Professor at Washington State University and author of Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems, 5th Edition.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: Indigenous Peoples and Culture Scale Chapter 2 Progress and Indigenous Peoples Chapter 3 The Uncontrolled Frontier Chapter 4 We Fought with Spears Chapter 5 The Extension of Government Control Chapter 6 Land Policies Chapter 7 Cultural Modification Policies Chapter 8 Economic Globalization 9 The Price of Progress Chapter 10 The Political Struggle for Indigenous Self-Determination Revival 11 Petroleum, the Commercial World, and Indigenous Peoples Chapter 12 Human Rights and the Politics of Ethnocide Chapter 13 Conclusion

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CIN0759111480G
9780759111486
0759111480
Victims of Progress by John H. Bodley
Used - Good
Paperback
AltaMira Press,U.S.
20080401
358
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