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Web Links"The Crees of Northern Québec: A Photographic Essay," by Norman Chance and Paul Conklin (University of Connecticut)
http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/CulturalViability/Cree/creeexhibit.html
An essay, with photographs, about the Cree, who have been affected by hydroelectric development in their native lands.The Development of a World Economic System
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/wallerstein.html
Modern History Sourcebook: Summary of Wallerstein on World System Theory; A Summary of Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World Economy in the Sixteenth Century (New York: Academic Press, 1974).Commentaries on the Modern World System
http://fbc.binghamton.edu/commentr.htm
Commentaries from Immanuel Wallerstein, Director of Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University.Modern World System
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/a/arrighi_chaos.html
A review of Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System, by Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly Silver; winner of the American Sociological Association's Section on the Political Economy of the World System Book Award (1999, University of Minnesota Press).Modern World System
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0816633983/ref=pd_sim_books_3/104-6375029-5831954?v=glance&s=books
The amazon.com webpage for The End of the World As We Know It: Social Science for the Twenty-First Century by Immanuel Wallerstein.China Online: The Three Gorges Dam Project
http://www.chinaonline.com/refer/ministry_profiles/threegorgesdam.asp
Letter from China: Underwater
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?030707fa_fact
A New Yorker article about the Three Gorges Dam in China, by Peter Hessler. Quote: "The world's biggest dam floods the past."Institute for Development Anthropology
http://www.developmentanthropology.org/
Quote: "The Institute for Development Anthropology (IDA) is an independent, nonpartisan, non-profit, nongovernmental organization with a mission to promote environmentally sustainable development through poverty elimination, equitable economic growth, respect for human rights, gender equity, and cultural pluralism." Located in Binghamton, New York.Society for Applied Anthropology
http://www.sfaa.net/
The website of the Society, with information about many different ways to apply anthropology to various real-world problems.World Bank
http://www.worldbank.org
The main website for the World Bank, with information and data about their projects and goals.USAID
http://www.usaid.gov/
The main website for the United States Agency for International Development. Quote: "USAID provides economic and humanitarian assistance in more than 100 countries to provide a better future for all."Political Discourse - Theories of Colonialism and Postcolonialism
http://www.postcolonialweb.org/poldiscourse/discourseov.html
An extensive and scholarly webpage maintained by George P. Landow, Shaw Professor of English and Digital Culture, National University of Singapore. |
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