World Cultures

Below are resources related to Douglas W. Hume's "Teaching Cultural Survival" chapter of World Cultures: Indigenous Peoples’ Struggle for Cultural Survival, edited by Sharlotte Neely and Douglas W. Hume.

Agencies & Organizations

• Cultural Survival
• Forest Peoples Programme
• International Labour Organization
• International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
• LandMark
• Minority Rights Group International
• Native American Rights Fund
• Rights and Resources Initiative
• Survival International
• United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Discussion Questions

• What are the major phenomena endangering Indigenous Peoples the world over in the 21st century?
• Explain why these phenomena are a threat.

Documentary Films

• Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage of Aymara communities in Bolivia, Chile and Peru
• The Garifuna Heritage, Part I & Part II

Further Reading

• Cernea, Michael M. and Kai Schmidt-Soltau. 2006. “Poverty Risks and National Parks: Policy Issues in Conservation and, Resettlement.” World Development 34 (10): 1808-1830. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2006.02.008
• Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP). 2017. Ten Years of the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Good Practices and Lessons Learned – 2007-2017. UN Doc. A/HRC/36/56.
• Hames, Raymond B. 2007. “The Ecologically Noble Savage Debate.” Annual Reviews of Anthropology 36: 177-190.
• International Labour Organization. 1989. International Labour Organization Convention (No. 169) Concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries. Geneva: International Labour Organization (ILO).
• Kowalski, Joseph. 2017. “Imaginary Lines, Real Consequences: The Effect of the Militarization of the United States-Mexico Border on Indigenous Peoples.” American Indian Law Journal 5 (2): 643-667.
• Kuper, Adam J. 2003. “The Return of the Native.” Current Anthropology 44 (3): 389-411. https://doi.org/10.1086/382253
• Merlan, Francesca. 2009. “Indigeneity: Global and Local.” Current Anthropology 50 (3): 303-353. https://doi.org/10.1086/597667
• Niezen, Ronald, and Maria Sapignoli. 2017. “Introduction.” In Palaces of Hope: The Anthropology of the United Nations, edited by Ronald Niezen and Maria Sapignoli, 1-30. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Rights and Resources Initiative. 2017.  From Risk and Conflict to Peace and Prosperity: The Urgency of Securing Community Land Rights in a Turbulent World. Washington, D.C.: Rights and Resources Initiative.
• United Nations. 2007. “United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).” United Nations General Assembly Resolution 61/295, September 13th, 2007. New York: United Nations.
• Valeggia, Claudia R. ,and J. Josh Snodgrass. 2015. “Health of Indigenous Peoples.” Annual Review of Anthropology 44: 117-135. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102214-013831
• Wily, Elizabeth. 2011. “‘The Law is to Blame’: The Vulnerable Status of Common Property Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa.” Development and Change 42 (3): 733-757. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7660.2011.01712.x
• World Bank. 2016. Indigenous Peoples. Emerging Lessons Series No. 2. Washington, D.C.: World Bank.