Indigenous Peoples and Poverty

Robyn Eversole is a research fellow at RMIT University, AustraliaJohn-Andrew McNeish lectures at the Institute of Anthropology, University of BergenAlberto Cimadamore is professor at the University of Buenos Aires; and advisor to the Latin American Council of Social Sciences

• 1. Introduction: Indigenous Peoples and Poverty - John-Andrew McNeish and Robyn EversolePart I: Indigenous Poverty2. Overview: Patterns of Indigenous Disadvantage Worldwide - Robyn Eversole3. The Conditions of Life and Health for Indigenous Women in Areas of High Marginalization, Chiapas, Mexico - Hector Javier Sanchez-Pérez, Guadalupe Vargas Morales and Josep María Jans 4. Scarred Landscapes and Tattooed Faces: Poverty, Identity and Land Conflict in a Taiwanese Indigenous Community - Scott Simon5. Nutritional Vulnerability in Indigenous Children of the Americas: A Human Rights Issue - Siri DammanPart II: Indigenous People in Nation States6. Overview: The Right to Self-Determination - John-Andrew NcNeish and Robyn Eversole7. Poverty and International Aid among Russia's Indigenous Peoples - Indra Overland8. Indigenous Peoples of Southeast Asia: Poverty, Identity and Resistance - Don McCaskill and Jeff Rutherford9. Tackling Indigenous Disadvantage in the Twenty-First Century: 'Social Inclusion' and Maori in New Zealand - Louise Humpage10. Political Participation and Poverty among Colombian Indigenous Communities, the Case of the Zen and Mokan  Peoples- A. Carolina Borda Nio and Dario Mejía Montalvo11. Indigenous Peoples, Poverty, and Self-Determination in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States - Stephen CornellPart III: Indigenous People's Perspective on Development12. Overview: Indigenous Peoples' Perspectives on Development - John-Andrew NcNeish13. Ecological Wealth versus Social Poverty: Contradictions of and Perspectives on Indigenous Development in Central America and Mexico - Pablo Alarcón-Chíres14. Indigenous Anti-Poverty Strategies in an Australian Town - Robyn Eversole, Leon Ridgeway and David Mercer15. Sami Responses to Poverty in the Nordic Countries - Christian Hicks and µnde Somby16. Conclusions: Poverty, Peoples, and the Meaning of Change - John-Andrew NcNeish and Robyn EversoleIndex

'This book brings together two leading concerns in development policy...In addition to the general analayses put forward, there is a rich collection of specific country and particular indigenous populations' experiences from the Americas, Australasia, South East Asia, Europe and Russia.' Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International