Amazon.com description: Product Description: *Designed for introductory courses in Cultural Anthropology as well as sources in development and area studies courses. Modernization and ethnic conflict; the impact of development on the Orang Asli in Malaysia; Guarani agrofestry-1997 will kick-off this brand new cultural anthropology series with studies of the above three topics by leading figures in the field of anthropology. Sharply focused on key issues affecting indigenous and ethnic groups worldwide, this series of ethnographies builds on introductory material by going further in-depth and allowing students to explore, virtually first-hand, a particular issue and its impact on a culture. Part of the Cultural Survival Studies in Ethnicity and Change Series.