1st Edition
Frontier Encounters Indigenous Communities and Settlers in Asia and Latin America
Edited By Danilo Geiger
Copyright 2008
554 Pages
by
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
Poverty and the maldistribution of land in core areas of developing countries, together with state schemes for the colonization of unruly frontiers, have forced indigenous peoples and settlers into an uneasy co-existence. Presenting material from various Asian and Latin American countries, Frontier Encounters examines factors that make for conflict and accommodation, studies the role of policy... Read more
Volume 120 of International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) Series
Biography
Danilo Geiger has an M. A. in social anthropology from the University of Zurich (Switzerland) and is a lecturer in political anthropology. His experience includes fieldwork in the Philippines and Indonesia. He is currently coordinating a four-year comparative research project on conflicts between indigenous communities and settlers in South and Southeast Asia.
