First Peoples: Indigenous Cultures and Their Futures (Focus on Contemporary Issues (FOCI))
By Jeffrey Sissons.
Description
It is widely assumed that indigenous cultures are under threat: they are rooted in landscapes that have undergone radical transformations, and the opposing forces of business corporations and ruling political powers only seem to grow stronger. Yet Jeff Sissons argues here in First Peoples that, far from collapsing in the face of global capitalism, indigenous cultures today are as diverse and alive as they ever were.First Peoples explores how, instead of being absorbed into a homogeneous modernity, indigenous cultures are actively shaping alternative futures for themselves and appropriating ...
ISBN(s)
1861892411, 9781861892416
