Indigenous people and poverty : an international perspective / edited by Robyn Eversole, John-Andrew McNeish & Alberto D. Cimadamore. - London ; New York : Zed books, c2005. - vii, 311 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Contents;

1. Introduction: indigenous peoples and poverty

One / Indigenous poverty
2. Overview - patterns of indigenous disadvantage worldwide
3. The conditions of life and health for indigenous women in areas of high marginalization, Chiapas, Mexico
4. Scarred landscapes and tattooed faces: poverty, identity and lan conflict in a Taiwanese indigenous community
5. Nutritional vulnerability in indigenous children of the Americans - a human rights issue

Two / Indigenous peoples in nation-states: rights, citizenship and self-determination
6. Overview - the right to self-determination
7. Poverty and international aid among Russia's indigenous peoples
8. Indigenous peoples of South-East Asia: poverty, identity and resistance
9. Tackling indigenous disadvantage in the twenty-first century: Social inclusion' and Maori in New Zealand
10. Political participation and poverty in Colombian indigenous communities: the case of the Zenu and Mokana peoples
11. Indigenous peoples, poverty and self-determination in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States

Three / Indigenous peoples' perspectives on development
12. Overview: indigenous peoples' perspectives on poverty and development
13. Ecological wealth versus social poverty: contradictions of and perspectives on indigenous development in central America and Mexico
14. Indigenous anti-poverty strategies in an Australian town
15. Sami responses to poverty in the Nordic countries
16. Conclusions: poverty, peoples and the meaning of change



Index : p. 301-311.

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Development policy
Poverty reduction
Indigenous peoples

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