<p><i>People and Change in Australia</i> arose from a conviction that more needs to be done in anthropology to give a fuller sense of the changing lives and circumstances of Australian indigenous communities and people. Much anthropological and public discussion remains embedded in traditionalizing
Sociocultural Change, Development and Indigenous Peoples
โ Scribed by Chee Beng Tan
- Publisher
- Anthony R. Walker
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 170
- Series
- Contributions to Southeast Asian Ethnography; 11
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
Editor's introduction, Change, development and indigenous peoples / Tan Chee-Beng -- Working for money among the Orang Asli in Kedah, Malaysia / Shuichi Nagata -- The Ibans of Sarawak, the nature of their peripherality and its political and economic consequences / Jayum A. Jawan and Victor T. King -- The ecological and social consequences of conversion to Christianity among the Rungus of Sabah, Malaysia / G.N. Appell -- Culture and mental health, an illustration from three Malayo-Polynesian groups in Taiwan / Hsu Mutsu -- Craftsmanship amidst change in southern Nias / Yoshiko Yamamoto -- Religion, politics and change at Makatian, Yamdena, Eastern Indonesia, a preliminary investigation / Harald Beyer Broch
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