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Tribal Peoples for Tomorrow’s World
Real culture is not a dead mask. It is alive,
from Tribal Peoples for Tomorrow’s World by Stephen Corry
Sarah Wong added 7mo ago
‘a people’ meaning an identifiable society.
from Tribal Peoples for Tomorrow’s World by Stephen Corry
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prehistory,
from Tribal Peoples for Tomorrow’s World by Stephen Corry
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have no concept whatsoever of homelessness, paid work or prison.
from Tribal Peoples for Tomorrow’s World by Stephen Corry
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enforced schooling is the most powerful weapon used by governments and missionaries to instil in tribal children values which are different, often contradictory, to those held by their own societies.
from Tribal Peoples for Tomorrow’s World by Stephen Corry
Sarah Wong added 7mo ago
When Margaret Thatcher famously declared that there was no such thing as society, she meant that the population should be looked at only as individuals, that there was no underlying social fabric which bound them into something which extended beyond themselves.
from Tribal Peoples for Tomorrow’s World by Stephen Corry
Sarah Wong added 7mo ago
irrespective of their legal status, retain some or all of their own social, economic, cultural and political institutions.
from Tribal Peoples for Tomorrow’s World by Stephen Corry
Sarah Wong added 7mo ago
a group which has had ultimate control of their lands taken by later arrivals: they are subject to the domination of others. Used in this sense, descent is less important than political perception.
from Tribal Peoples for Tomorrow’s World by Stephen Corry
Sarah Wong added 7mo ago
Ideas, things and even individuals can cross in both directions, but however porous and elastic the boundary is – and both are major components in its strength – it must retain its integrity if the group is to survive as a definable people.
from Tribal Peoples for Tomorrow’s World by Stephen Corry
Sarah Wong added 7mo ago