social change and the creation of underdevelopment: a Northwest Coast case
The situation of many aboriginal peoples in Canada manifests similarities to the dependency exhibited in the underdeveloped world. This article examines changing relations of production, to outline the evolution of the articulation of a northwest coast Tsimshian community with the world economy. The...
Published in: | American Ethnologist |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
1994
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ae.1994.21.1.02a00080 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1525%2Fae.1994.21.1.02a00080 https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1525/ae.1994.21.1.02a00080 |
Summary: | The situation of many aboriginal peoples in Canada manifests similarities to the dependency exhibited in the underdeveloped world. This article examines changing relations of production, to outline the evolution of the articulation of a northwest coast Tsimshian community with the world economy. The Tsimshians participated in several relations of production, including those represented by various circuits of capital, to develop the Tsimshian economic formation, creating a dependency at the same time as the economic conditions were being appropriated into the emerging capitalist economic formation, out of the control of the Tsimshians and stifling their further development, [social change, development, dependency, Northwest Coast, Tsimshian] |
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