Human problems in technological change

Spicer, Edward Holland 1906-1983 (compiler.).

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Physical Description: print
301 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Wiley, [1965, ©1952]

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Foreword / Alexander H. Leighton ; Introduction / E.H. Spicer : Change in the modern world -- The fabric of human culture -- Human responses to change -- Purpose of this casebook ; Part I. The discovery of human problems: In the wake of the wheel: introduction of the wagon to the Papago Indians of southern Arizona / Wesley L. Bliss -- Corn and custom: introduction of hybrid corn to Spanish American farmers in New Mexico / Ancleto Apodaca -- Reluctant cotton pickers: incentive to work in a Japanese relocation center / E.H. Spicer -- The village level: an introduction of green manuring in rural India / Rudra Datt Singh -- Steel axes for Stone Age Australians / Lauriston Sharp ; Part II. The analysis of human situations: New land to farm: agricultural practices among the Navajo Indians of New Mexico / Tom Sasaki and John Adair -- The wells that failed: an attempt to establish a stable water supply in Viru Valley, Peru / Allan R. Holmberg -- Eskimo herdsmen: introduction of reindeer herding to the natives of Alaska / Margaret Lantis -- South Sea island strike: labor-management relations in the Caroline Islands, Micronesia / John Useem -- The Creek "town" and the problem of Creek Indian political reorganization / Morris Edward Opler ; Part III. Types of human problems: Sheepmen and technicians: a program of soil conservation on the Navajo Indian Reservation / E.H. Spicer with comment by John Collier -- Experiment in conservation: erosion control and forage production on the Papago Indian reservations in Arizona / Henry F. Dobyns -- People of the hinterland: community interrelations in a maritime province of Canada / Allister MacMillan and Alexander H. Leighton -- Resistance to freedom: resettlement from the Japanese relocation centers during World War II / E.H. Spicer -- Democracy in process: the development of democratic leadership in the Micronesian Islands / John Useem ; Part IV. Conceptual tools for solving human problems ; Index.