Human problems in technological change : a casebook / edited by Edward H. Spicer.

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Other Authors: Spicer, Edward Holland, 1906-1983 (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [1952]
Series:Russell Sage Foundation publication.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Alexander H. Leighton ; Introduction / E.H. Spicer : Change in the modern world
  • The fabric of human culture
  • Human responses to change
  • Purpose of this casebook ; Part I. The discovery of human problems: In the wake of the wheel: introduction of the wagon to the Papago Indians of southern Arizona / Wesley L. Bliss
  • Corn and custom: introduction of hybrid corn to Spanish American farmers in New Mexico / Ancleto Apodaca
  • Reluctant cotton pickers: incentive to work in a Japanese relocation center / E.H. Spicer
  • The village level: an introduction of green manuring in rural India / Rudra Datt Singh
  • Steel axes for Stone Age Australians / Lauriston Sharp ; Part II. The analysis of human situations: New land to farm: agricultural practices among the Navajo Indians of New Mexico / Tom Sasaki and John Adair
  • The wells that failed: an attempt to establish a stable water supply in Viru Valley, Peru / Allan R. Holmberg
  • Eskimo herdsmen: introduction of reindeer herding to the natives of Alaska / Margaret Lantis
  • South Sea island strike: labor-management relations in the Caroline Islands, Micronesia / John Useem
  • The Creek "town" and the problem of Creek Indian political reorganization / Morris Edward Opler ; Part III. Types of human problems: Sheepmen and technicians: a program of soil conservation on the Navajo Indian Reservation / E.H. Spicer with comment by John Collier
  • Experiment in conservation: erosion control and forage production on the Papago Indian reservations in Arizona / Henry F. Dobyns
  • People of the hinterland: community interrelations in a maritime province of Canada / Allister MacMillan and Alexander H. Leighton
  • Resistance to freedom: resettlement from the Japanese relocation centers during World War II / E.H. Spicer
  • Democracy in process: the development of democratic leadership in the Micronesian Islands / John Useem ; Part IV. Conceptual tools for solving human problems ; Index.