In the absence of the sacred : the failure of technology and the survival of the Indian nations

Book 1992

This discussion of the impact of technology on native peoples, in economic, physical, cultural and spiritual aspects, includes the 'Fourth World' and speculation on the future of society and the world economy.

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Indigenous peoples Civil rights North America

Indigenous peoples Land tenure North America

Indigenous peoples North America Social conditions

Technology Moral and ethical aspects

Technology Social aspects

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ISBN:

9780871565099
0871565099

Edition:

Sierra Club Books paperback edition

Description:

446 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-426) and index

Contents:

Questions we should have asked about technology
Growing up with technology
Fantasy and reality
The importance of the negative view
The inevitable direction of megatechnology
Seven negative points about computers
Television (1) : audiovisual training for the modern world
Television (2) : satellites and the cloning of cultures
Corporations as machines
Leaving the Earth : space colonies, Disney, and EPCOT
Developing the genetic wilderness
In the absence of the sacred
Suppression of the native alternative
What Americans don't know about Indians
Indians are different from Americans
The gift of democracy
Lessons in stone-age economics
World war against the Indians
The imperative to destroy traditional Indian governments
The imminent theft of Alaska
The theft of Nevada
Desecration of sacred lands
World news briefs (1) : the Pacific Basin and Asia
World news briefs (2) : Canada, Europe, Africa, Latin America
The new order and the new resistance

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51684

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