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

In the absence of the sacred : the failure of technology and the survival of the Indian nations / Jerry Mander.

Mander, Jerry. (Author).

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0871565099 (pbk.) :
  • ISBN: 9780871565099 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 446 pages ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: Sierra Club Books paperback ed.
  • Publisher: San Francisco : Sierra Club Books, 1992, c1991.

Content descriptions

General Note:
INCLUDES BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES (p. (411)-426) AND INDEX.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [411]-426) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
pt. 1. Questions we should have asked about technology -- ch. 1. Growing up with technology -- ch. 2. Fantasy and reality -- ch. 3. The importance of the negative view -- pt. 2. The inevitable direction of megatechnology -- ch. 4. Seven negative points about computers -- ch. 5. Television (1): audiovisual training for the modern world -- ch. 6. Television (2): satellites and the cloning of cultures -- ch. 7. Corporations as machines -- ch. 8. leaving the earth: space colonies, Disney, and Epcot -- ch. 9. Developing the genetic wilderness -- ch. 10. In the absence of the sacred -- pt. 3. Suppression of the native alternative -- ch. 11. What Americans don't know about Indians -- ch. 12. Indians are different from Americans -- ch. 13. The gift of democracy -- ch. 14. Lessons in stone-age economics -- pt. 4. World war against the Indians -- ch. 15. The imperative to destroy traditional Indian governments: the case of the Hopi and Navaho -- ch. 16. The imminent theft of Alaska -- ch. 17. The theft of Nevada -- ch. 18. Desecration of the sacred lands: the case of native Hawaiians -- ch. 19. World news briefs (1): the Pacific basin and Asia -- ch. 20. World news briefs (2): Canada, Europe, Africa, Latin America -- Epilogue. The new order and the new resistance.
Subject: Indians > Social conditions.
Indians > Land tenure.
Indians > Civil rights.
Technology > Social aspects.
Technology > Moral and ethical aspects.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Northwest Indian College.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lummi Library E 98 .S67 M36 1991 02974 Stacks Available -
Lummi Library E 98 .S67 M36 1991 02977 Stacks Available -


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