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Eder, James F.

On the road to tribal extinction : depopulation, deculturation, and adaptive well-being among the Batak of the Philippines / James F. Eder. - [Reprint ed.]. - Berkeley : University of California Press, �1992. - 1 online resource (xvi, 277 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-271) and index.

The Batak as They Were -- The Batak as They Are Today -- Demographic Evidence of Adaptive Difficulty -- Physiological Evidence of Adaptive Difficulty -- Increased Stress Levels as the Cause of Adaptive Difficulty -- Decreased Stress-Coping Ability as the Cause of Adaptive Difficulty -- Ethnic Identity, Human Motivation, and Tribal Survival.

ISBN: 9780520912755 0520912756 0585127867 9780585127866

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Batak (Philippine people)--Social conditions.
Batak (Philippine people)--Population.
Acculturation--Philippines--Palawan Island--Case studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies.
Acculturation.
Batak (peuple d'Indon�esie)--Conditions sociales.
Batak (peuple d'Indon�esie)--Population.
Acculturation--Philippines--Palawan (�Ile)--Cas, �etudes de.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Philippines--Palawan Island.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Case studies.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: DS666.B34 / E34 1992eb

Dewey Class. No.: 305.8/009599/4