Employing the Ethnodevelopment Model to Analyze Karen Self-determination Between 1949 and 2005
Author: Jack C. Fong
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 1160
ISBN-13:
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World Heritage Sites and Indigenous Peoples' Rights
Author: Stefan Disko
Publisher: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book includes twenty case studies of World Heritage sites from around the world that explore, from a human rights perspective, indigenous peoples' experiences with World Heritage sites and with the processes of the World Heritage Convention. The book will serve as a resource for indigenous peoples, World Heritage site managers, and UNESCO, as well as academics, and it will contribute to discussions about what changes or actions are needed to ensure that World Heritage sites can play a consistently positive role for indigenous peoples, in line with the spirit of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Nutritional Biochemistry
Author: Chad Cox
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2015-06-01
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1771882859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title includes a number of Open Access chapters. Nutrition is becoming ever more central to our understanding of metabolic processes. Nutritional biochemistry offers insight into the mechanisms by which diet influences human health and disease. This book focuses on five aspects of this complex field of study: nutritional genomics, clinical nut
Native Christians
Author: Aparecida Vilaça
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-29
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1317089863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNative Christians reflects on the modes and effects of Christianity among indigenous peoples of the Americas drawing on comparative analysis of ethnographic and historical cases. Christianity in this region has been part of the process of conquest and domination, through the association usually made between civilizing and converting. While Catholic missions have emphasized the 'civilizing' process, teaching the Indians the skills which they were expected to exercise within the context of a new societal model, the Protestants have centered their work on promoting a deep internal change, or 'conversion', based on the recognition of God's existence. Various ethnologists and scholars of indigenous societies have focused their interest on understanding the nature of the transformations produced by the adoption of Christianity. The contributors in this volume take native thought as the starting point, looking at the need to relativize these transformations. Each author examines different ethnographic cases throughout the Americas, both historical and contemporary, enabling the reader to understand the indigenous points of view in the processes of adoption and transformation of new practices, objects, ideas and values.
Research Beyond Borders
Author: Lise-Hélène Smith
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2011-12-28
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 0739143573
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection draws insights from an interdisciplinary group of scholars who specialize in diverse methods ranging from ethnography, archival research, and oral histories, to quantitative data analysis and experiments used in the social sciences and humanities to reflect on the empirical, methodological, and practical implications of conducting research beyond one’s national borders. The goal of this book is to help researchers contemplate existing orientations that dominate current research processes and consider the need for transnational multidisciplinary practices that remain aware of the inequalities which continually inform research practices. With this focus, this collection is also a resourceful initiative that seeks to share experiences as well as extract key ideas and approaches likely to overlap or resonate in different disciplines.
The Death Café Movement
Author: Jack Fong
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-07-31
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 3319542567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis sociological work examines the phenomenon of the Death Café, a regular gathering of strangers from all walks of life who engage in “death talk” over coffee, tea, and desserts. Using insightful theoretical frameworks, Fong explores the common themes that constitute a “death identity” and reveals how Café attendees are inspired to live in light of death because of death. Fong examines how the participants’ embrace of self-sovereignty and confrontation of mortality revive their awareness of and appreciation for shared humanity. While divisive identity politics continue to foster neo-tribalisms and the construction of myriad “others,” Fong makes visible how those who participate in Death Cafés end up building community while being inspired toward living more fulfilling lives. Through death talk unfettered from systemic control, they end up feeling more agency over their own lived lives as well as being more conscious of the possibility of a good death. According to Fong, participants in this phenomenon offer us a sublime way to confront the facticity of our own demise—by gathering as one.
Children and Transitional Justice
Author: Sharanjeet Parmar
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780979639548
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis musical release from the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under the conduction of Andris Nelsons captures a live performance by the ensemble, recorded for the Coventry Cathedral's 50th anniversary on May 30th, 2012. ~ Cammila Collar, Rovi
The Indigenous World 2013
Author: Caecilie Mikkelsen
Publisher: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
Published: 2015-02-28
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788792786333
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn over seventy articles and country reports, The Indigenous World 2013 provides a comprehensive update on the current situation of indigenous peoples and their human rights, and reports on the most important developments in international processes of relevance to indigenous peoples during 2012. The yearbook, produced by the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs in collaboration with indigenous and non indigenous scholars and activists, is an essential source of information and an indispensable tool for those who need to be informed about the most recent issues and developments that have affected indigenous peoples worldwide.
Legal Perspectives on Native Customary Land Rights in Sarawak
Author: Ramy Bulan
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9789832523529
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRevolution as Development
Author: Jack Fong
Publisher: BrownWalker Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1599429942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Karen Revolution for self-determination has the distinction of being one of the world's longest-running struggles for freedom, having begun in 1949 and continuing to this very moment. This sociological work makes visible how ethnopolitical, petropolitical, geopolitical, and ecosystemic issues affect the political economy of a people experiencing ethnic cleansing. From the inception of its self-determination struggle in 1949, readers will be taken on a historical journey with the Karen, finally "arriving" in the 21st century. Along the way, the author exposes readers to the anatomy of how Karen revolutionary dynamics attempt to shield the Karen people against internal colonization committed by the various military regimes of Burma, and how these complex dynamics engaged by Karen revolutionaries-in a novel reformulation and reading that transcends oversimplified economisitic indicators of progress-constitute development. A study of revolution that moves beyond the simplicity of a clashing dualism exemplified by Aung San Suu Kyi pitted against the military regime, this text is for readers desiring to examine how other significant players such as the Karen, a proud people living in systemic crisis, construct nation and aspire toward democracy in the labyrinthine ethnopolitical terrain of Burma.
