In the Way of Development: Indigenous Peoples, Life Projects and Globalization - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1842771922 ISBN 13: 9781842771921

Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL, 2004

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Indigenous peoples today are enmeshed in the expanding modern economy, subject to the pressures of both market and government. This book takes indigenous peoples as actors, not victims, as its starting point in analysing this interaction. It assembles a rich diversity of statements, case studies and wider thematic explorations, primarily from North America, and particularly the Cree, the Haudenausaunee (Iroquois) and Chippewa-Ojibwe peoples who straddle the US/Canadian border, but also from South America and the former Soviet Union. It explores the complex relationships between indigenous peoples, civil society, and the environment. It shows how the boundaries between indigenous peoples' organizations, civil society, the state, markets, development and the environment are ambiguous and constantly changing. These complexities create both opportunities and threats for local agency. People resist or react to the pressures of market and state, while sustaining 'life projects' of their own, embodying their own local history, visions and strategies.

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Mario. E. Blaser is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.

Harvey Feit is Professor of Anthropology at McMaster University in Canada. He has published widely, and served as President of the Canadian Anthropology Society and founding Chair of the Indigenous Studies Program at McMaster University.

Glenn McRae is an applied anthropologist who has worked extensively throughout the United States, India, South Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America as an environmental consultant. He has worked extensively with advocacy organizations on environmental health issues, and continues his research on the transnational connections between local social movements in United States and those around the globe.

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• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1842771922
• ISBN 13: 9781842771921
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 374
• Herausgeber: Blaser Mario, Feit Harvey A., Mcrae Glenn
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