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In the absence of the sacred : the failure of technology and the survival of the Indian nations / Jerry Mander.
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.
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| 505 | . | ‡apt. 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. | |
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