Cornell's field seminar in applied anthropology: social scientists and American Indians in the postwar Southwest.

From: Journal of the Southwest | Date: September 22, 2001| Author: Davies, Wade | Copyright information

As the Second World War ended, it appeared that new agricultural, medical, and mechanical technologies developed during this era would fundamentally alter people's lives on American Indian reservations. But if the war had reduced the insularity of native communities, it remained to be determined whether these enclaves could channel inevitable social and economic change in ways that the people themselves would deem appropriate and desirable. Alexander Leighton and other social scien...

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