This book is part of a series which focuses on important contemporary issues that arouse widespread debate. The key aspects of each topic are selected for discussion analysis in an attempt to raise levels of awareness and to provoke independent thought and opinion on the most challenging issues of our time. The series provides background reading for GCSE studies and Standard Grade in Scotland. This book discusses the ways in which a culture may be threatened, using examples from all over the world. What is culture? How can it be threatened? What is the difference between a culture being under threat from change, and it evolving naturally? These are the central issues under discussion in this book. The author uses examples from all over the world to illustrate the problems facing cultures under threat, from those caught up in political struggles (such as the Guatemalan Indians) and the victims of colonization (eg Aborigines, Maoris and Maasai), to those who are subjected to prejudice, or the machinery of modernization.
She describes how these threatened cultures are fighting back, what is required for them to maintain their existence, and what readers can do to help prevent culture destruction. Virginia Luling is an anthropologist specializing in north-east Africa and she wrote "Plains Indians" and "Aborigines".
- ISBN10 1852101482
- ISBN13 9781852101480
- Publish Date 31 May 1989
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 April 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hachette Children's Group
- Imprint Hodder Wayland
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 48
- Language English