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International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)

56 Series Titles


Anxious North Indigenous Peoples of Soviet and Post Soviet Russia

Anxious North: Indigenous Peoples of Soviet and Post Soviet Russia

1st Edition

By Alexander Pika, Jens Dahl, Inge Larsen
January 01, 1996

Jens Dahl is a Danish anthropologist and former director and Board member of IWGIA who has followed the organization's development for the last 40 years. This book contains a compilation of texts about the Small Indigenous Peoples of the Russian North and Far East. The Selected documents, letters ...

Bushmen and the Politics of the Environment in Southern Africa

Bushmen and the Politics of the Environment in Southern Africa

1st Edition

By Robert Hitchcock
January 01, 1996

The data and conclusions presented in this volume were drawn from a series of research and consultancy projects carried out in Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe....

Indigenous Peoples, Forest, and Biodiversity

Indigenous Peoples, Forest, and Biodiversity

1st Edition

By International Alliance of Indigenous-Tribal
January 01, 1996

Indigenous Peoples, Forest, and Biodiversity. International Alliance of Indigenous-Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forest, and International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs. This volume brings together the main statements and interventions made by the International Alliance of Indigenous-Tribal ...

Vines That Won't Bind Indigenous Peoples in Asia

Vines That Won't Bind: Indigenous Peoples in Asia

1st Edition

Edited By Christian Erni
January 01, 1996

This book is a compilation of proceedings from a Conference on Indigenous Peoples in South and Southeast Asia. Contents feature chapters on: The Concept of Indigenous Peoples in Asia; Juridical Rights and the Relation with the State and the Non-Indigenous Populations; Indigenous Movements and Forms...

Indigenous Peoples, Environment and Development

Indigenous Peoples, Environment and Development

1st Edition

Edited By Christian Erni
January 01, 1995

International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs and Department of Social Anthropology, University of Zurich....

The Explosion of Communities in Chiapas

The Explosion of Communities in Chiapas

1st Edition

Edited By June Nash, George Collier
January 01, 1995

Concerning the transformations within Chiapas Mayan communities that make processes of change visible, the focus of this book is the period from 1974 when the first hemispheric congress of indigenous people took place in San Cristobal de las Casas, to the Zapatista uprising and the turbulent ...

Never Drink from the Same Cup

Never Drink from the Same Cup

1st Edition

Edited By Hanne Veber, Jens Dahl
January 01, 1993

The present volume contains the papers that came out of a con­ference on "The Question of Indigenous Peoples in Africa" jointly organised by The International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) and the Centre for Development Research (CDR) in Co­penhagen. It is not the intention that...

Out in the Cold The Legacy of Canada's Inuit Relocation Experiment in the High Arctic

Out in the Cold: The Legacy of Canada's Inuit Relocation Experiment in the High Arctic

1st Edition

By Alan R. Marcus
January 01, 1992

Study of the Canadian government's Inuit relocation experiment in the eastern high Arctic. The study deals mainly with the relocation in 1953 and 1955 from Port Harrison to Grise Fiord and Resolute Bay examining the reasons for, execution of, and consequences for the Inuit of the relocation....

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