The spatial knowledge of indigenous people in mountainous environments : a case study of three Taiwanese indigenous tribes
Cultural geography ; Cultural studies ; Ethnic community ; Knowledge ; Mental map ; Mountain ; Space ; Taiwan ; Territory ; Topography ; Tribe
This article recounts information gleaned from a case study of three indigenous tribes in Taiwan regarding the origin and nature of their spatial knowledge. The results show that spatial components are used for daily activities, as well as having
Annual flows of energy, matter, and money were collected for the Ait Mizane tribe in the Imlil region of the High Atlas. Social and environmental pressures increasingly impinge on the system. - (DWG)
Arunachal Pradesh ; Community ; India ; Legal status ; Legislation ; Slavery ; Society ; Tribe
The book analyses the emergence of the private property and existence of social stratification among the hill tribes in Arunachal Pradesh. The A. questions the validity of the myths of egalitarianism and non-hierarchism among the tribes. The book
Encyclopaedia of North India. Volume 1 : The North-East : part 1, History of the region, part 2, The Ahom period, part 3, The British period, Volume 2 : Assam, Volume 3 : Arunachal Pradash, Manipur, Volume 4 : Naga tribes, Meghalaya
Community ; Cultural studies ; Ethnic community ; History ; India ; Language ; Tribe
Previous research has tended to emphasize the impact of Jewish colonization as having improved the economic status of the bedouin tribes. Rather than emphasizing economic improvement, this paper stresses the dimension of the detribalization
India ; Livestock farming ; Mountain ; Tamil Nadu ; Tribe
The Todas are a scheduled tribe of India, occupying highlands around the upper Nilgiris. They were formerly entirely dependent on buffaloes and had invented the most complicated dairy rituals ever devised. The Todas have recently switched
Agriculture ; Asia ; Burma ; China ; Cultural studies ; Ethnic community ; Language ; Laos ; Migration ; Minority ; Resource management ; Settlement ; South-Eastern Asia ; Thailand ; Trans-border area ; Tribe ; Vietnam ; Village
? Relationship changes between lowlander and hill tribes in Xishuangbanna, China.
Hill ; Himalaya ; India ; Project ; Resource management ; Rural development ; Thailand ; Tribe ; Watershed
and landless. Author reviews lessons of World Bank watershed projects in India. Thai workshop centered on 18-year experience of the GTZ-funded Thai-German Highland Development Project, which has dealt with development issues associated with the Hill Tribes
Collective work in five chapters. The paper emphasizes on the need to reform the curriculum and to develop a modern education system. The position of the Hill Tribes of Thailand in the geopolitics of the Cold War as well as the impact of modern
curriculum on hill tribes are explained. Introduction : Understanding the challenges of the educational reform in Thailand. 1- Reinforcing Thai wisdom with local curriculum at school ; 2- Modern education systems and impact on ethnic minorities ; 3
Amerindians ; Colonialism ; Conflict ; Cultural landscape ; Environment ; Land ; Land use ; Social justice ; Sovereignty ; Tribe ; United States of America ; Utah
and politics of tribal sovereignty, the A. argues that a prolonged process of historical colonialism has produced a landscape of injustice in which the tribe's choices have been structurally limited. Conflict over the definition and practice of tribal
Langhausgemeinschaft und Brandrodungsfeldbau bei den Iban in Sarawak/Borneo. (Longhouse community and shifting cultivation of the Iban tribe of Sarawak/Borneo)
A wild plant, Camassia spp., has edible bulbs that were once an important food of many Indian tribes in the American West. Discussion of major species, gathering, processing, and trade of this plant, and how Native Americans managed this resource