On the Road to Tribal Extinction: Depopulation, Deculturation, and Adaptive Well-Being Among the Batak of the PhilippinesThe cultural and even physical extinction of the world's remaining tribal people is a disturbing phenomenon of our time. In his study of the Batak of the Philippines, James Eder explores the adaptive limits of small human populations facing the ecological changes, social stresses, and cultural disruptions attending incorporation into broader socioeconomic systems. |
Contents
The Batak as They Were | 19 |
The Batak as They Are Today | 52 |
Demographic Evidence of Adaptive Difficulty | 103 |
Physiological Evidence of Adaptive Difficulty | 135 |
Increased Stress Levels as the Cause of Adaptive | 162 |
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