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Indigenous Peoples, Ethnic Groups, and the State 2/e

David Maybury-Lewis

Published October 2001 by Allyn & Bacon
Copyright 2002, 160 pp., Paper
ISBN: 0-205-33746-5
List Price:
$26.60

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10/2001
   
Features

  • Cultural examples are thoroughly researched and focus on specific global issues that illustrate the effects of modernization and how they impact that particular culture.
  • In-depth information on several indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities expand students' grasp on the experiences and problems that these and other groups encounter.
  • Brief and inexpensive, this text can be used as a main text or supplement in a variety of courses.


Table of Contents



1. Indigenous Peoples.

Genocide in the Americas.

Indigenous Peoples: Subordinated and Marginalized.

Imperialism and Evolutionary Theory.

Ethnocide and Its Justifications.

Ethnocide: The Counter-Arguments.

India: Where Indigenous Is Scheduled.

Southeast Asia and Indonesia: Indigenous Peoples and Ethnic Minorities.

Africa and the Politics of Tribalism.

Conclusion.



2. Ethnic Groups.

Uncertain Ethnicity.

Large Multiethnic States.

Ethnicity within the System.



3. Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing.

Rwanda.

The Former Yugoslavia.

Conclusion.



4. The State.

State and Nation.

Ideal State and Real States.

Ethnicity and the State Reconsidered.

Tribalism as Marginality and Metaphor.



5. Different States, Different World.


References.



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