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Author Eder, James F

Title On the road to tribal extinction : depopulation, deculturation, and adaptive well-being among the Batak of the Philippines / James F. Eder
Edition [Reprint ed.]
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1992

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 277 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents The Batak as They Were -- The Batak as They Are Today -- Demographic Evidence of Adaptive Difficulty -- Physiological Evidence of Adaptive Difficulty -- Increased Stress Levels as the Cause of Adaptive Difficulty -- Decreased Stress-Coping Ability as the Cause of Adaptive Difficulty -- Ethnic Identity, Human Motivation, and Tribal Survival
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-271) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Batak (Philippine people) -- Social conditions
Batak (Philippine people) -- Population
Acculturation -- Philippines -- Palawan Island -- Case studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Acculturation
Batak (peuple d'Indonésie) -- Conditions sociales.
Batak (peuple d'Indonésie) -- Population.
Acculturation -- Philippines -- Palawan (Île) -- Cas, études de.
Philippines -- Palawan Island
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520912755
0520912756
0585127867
9780585127866