Strategies for survival : the psychology of cultural resilience in ethnic minorities /

Strategies for survival : the psychology of cultural resilience in ethnic minorities /

Why does one society survive, while others perish? When two cultures come into contact, how do exploitation, violence, and terror arise? Peter Elsass has been studying cultures in Columbia and Venezuela since 1973. Interested in the survival of various cultures in the face of encroaching white civil...

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Main Author: Elsass, Peter
Format: Book
Language:English
Danish
Published: New York : New York University Press, ©1992.
Subjects:
Motilon Indians > Cultural assimilation.
Arhuaco Indians > Cultural assimilation.
Acculturation > South America.
Resilience (Personality trait) > Cross-cultural studies.
Minorities > South America > Psychology.
Arhuaco (Indiens) > Acculturation.
Résilience (Trait de personnalité) > Études transculturelles.
Minorités > Amérique du Sud > Psychologie.
Acculturation.
Minorities > Psychology.
Resilience (Personality trait)
Ethnische Identität
Indianer
Kulturkontakt
Nationale Minderheit
Plastizität > Psychologie
Überlebensstrategie
Acculturatie.
Assimilatie (sociologie)
Motilones.
Arawak (volk)
Weggelopen slaven.
Bari (Indiens) > Acculturation.
Acculturation > Amérique du Sud.
Motilon (indiens) > Acculturation > Venezuela.
Résilience (psychologie) > Études transculturelles.
South America.
Südamerika
Indianer.
American Indians > Social conditions
Colombia
Venezuela
Cross-cultural studies.
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Indians. Motilon ; Arhuaco ; Chemescua ; The survival of the Indians
  • pt. 2. Slaves. Maroons ; Jonestown ; The survival of the slaves
  • pt. 3. Analysis and conclusion. The psychology of survival ; Advocacy.