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

ISBN 10: 1842771922 / ISBN 13: 9781842771921

Published by Zed Books, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In the Way of Development: Indigenous Peoples, Life Projects and Globalization
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1842771922
• ISBN 13: 9781842771921
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Authored as a result of a remarkable collaboration between indigenous people's own leaders, other social activists and scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this volume explores what is happening today to indigenous peoples as they are enmeshed, almost inevitably, in the remorseless expansion of the modern economy and development, at the behest of the pressures of the market-place and government. It is particularly timely, given the rise in criticism of free market capitalism generally, as well as of development. The volume seeks to capture the complex, power-laden, often contradictory features of indigenous agency and relationships. It shows how peoples do not just resist or react to the pressures of market and state, but also initiate and sustain "life projects" of their own which embody local history and incorporate plans to improve their social and economic ways of living.

About the Author

Harvey Feit is Professor of Anthropology and Mario. E. Blaser is a doctoral candidate, both at McMaster University in Canada.

Glenn McRae teaches in the Anthropology Department at the University of Vermont.