Stepchildren of Progress

Stepchildren of ProgressDramatic changes caused by a foreign owned nickel mining company in an Indonesian town provide the setting for this ethnographic study. Robinson notes the changes that took place in Soroako, a village in Sulawesi. The book outlines the effects of this new development, principally in regard to the 1,000 indigenous Soroakans whose former agricultural land is now the site for the mining town. It presents an analysis of developing capitalist relations in

Alternating between descriptions of sadomasochistic sex

While Five Weeks in a Balloon endures as an exciting and adventurous text

The cultivation of conventional bananas of the commercial Cavendish variety for export markets in the wet tropics requires a substantial amount of synthetic agrochemical input

which is also to be partly traced in the works of Sophocles and in earlier plays by Euripides

and sequential feeding regimes

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The Man in the Moone was inspired by recent discoveries in the field of astronomy by Nicolaus Copernicus

theoretical approaches

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Detailed discussions of structural

the troublesome human emotions of anger and rage play a central role in the genesis of violent behavior and psychopathology in general