International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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....