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The transfer of hard technologies from developed rich countries in the North is seen to encourage the emergence & growth of elites & dictatorial regimes in the developing poor countries of the South. These elites & dictators obtain, maintain, & promote their privileges by exploiting the larger poor populations in the country. In the process, the human rights of the poor populations are debased. Concepts of technology are developed, describing the technological worldview. The transfer of technology follows from the confluence of interests between national elites, who perceive their self-interest in technology, & multinationals, who find profits in such transfers. 3 Tables. Modified AA.

One hundred seventy-two (172) subjects in a southern metropolitan area were given the Circles Test to determine future dominance and the "Srole Anomia Scale." They were then assigned a social class ranking based on their education and occupation. It was found that social
class was related inversely to anomia and directly to future time orientation. These results suggest that the avoidance of thinking about the future among the lower class is a defense reaction, both to the predominancy of anomia in their group and to the lack of power in their class.

Always have Indians identified themselves by their caste, by theirancestral village: "Our family were Khatris from the West Punjabcountryside." "Murud, at one time a fairly prosperous village, is mynative place." In the late nineteenth century, however, an important new process of forging group identities which transcended these local attributions came to characterize South Asian social history. This was in part prompted by the efforts of an alien British administration to identify the constituent units in Indian society. Drawing on European historical experience, the administrators applied the collective labels "Hindu" and "Muslim" to groups who were far from homogeneous communities.

Population densities were determined by counting faecal pellets of W. bicolor in wet sclerophyll forest and Eucalyptus grandis plantations, 1, 2 and 10 yr old, in New South Wales. Numbers were uniformly low in the 1-yr-old plantation and uniformly high in the 2-yr-old plantation. In the 10-yr-old plantation and the native forest numbers were low to moderate in the centres but high at the edges bordering on the 1-yr-old plantation. The different population densities are thought to result from differences in availability of cover and food. From author's summary.

SummaryConsanguinity is studied in a large sample of marriages among Dhangars of Maharashtra, India. The 22 endogamous castes included in the study show great variation in incidence, about an overall frequency of 26.4%. Matrilateral first cross-cousin unions are more frequency than patrilateral, and maternal uncle-niece nuions least frequent. Geograbhical differences are conspicuous, and all three types of consanguineous union show characteristic patterns; matrilateral unions increase in frequncy northwards, patrilateral and uncle-niece decrease northwards. The inbreeding levels among the Dhangars are high compared to other Maharashtrian groups, but substantially lower than in southern Dravidian speaking groups.

It seems to me that the occupation and colonization of New Holland and the other islands of Australia is one of those vast schemes of national policy into which Great Britain has been drawn by the current of events and with little human foresight to direct us, but which like the peopling of North America and the conquest of India must be regarded as amongst the most impressive movements of divine providence in the government of this world.Sir James Stephen, Minute of January, 1842, in Colonial Office, New South Wales Series, 201/329.

Differences in regional prices and wages are examined for the United States in 1890, together with the relationship between the cost of living and city size, and the determinants of regional industrial growth. Results indicate that regional cost-of-liying differences were sufficiently large so that money wages cannot be used for purposes of comparing the economic well-being of wage earners across regions. Except for the South, money wages and the cost of living were positively correlated. The relative differences in money wages, however, were greater; consequently real wages in high wage-price areas were generally higher.

The Chicama river lies north of river Moche and south of river Jequetepeque and the city of Cajamarca. Among the indigenous languages spoken in this region Yunka, Kullic, Muchic and Quechua had the greatest influence. A number of words exists that originate from other local languages like designated Chicama B. This study includes observations on indigenous depository of toponymics. This is followed by an attempt to reconstruct the history of presence of different indigenous ethnic groups. This includes spatial allocations of vocabularies.
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Abstract A study by Gastil concludes that the Southern area of the United States constitutes a regional subculture of violence. Loftin and Hill (1974) empirically challenge Gastil's findings at the ecological level of analysis. This study adds a further dimension to that line of research by examining violence‐related items from a national survey at the individual level of analysis. Results fail to confirm the existence of a divergent value system among Southerners today. It is suggested that if a "regional culture of violence" once existed, it has vanished over the years.

Hyper‐urbanization has been used in South Vietnam (1960‐74) as a strategic weapon to dominate and enslave the country. Since liberation in April 1975, the government has undertaken gradual but large‐scale de‐urbanization to create favourable conditions for development based on a policy of regional industrialization in support of agriculture. The experience of North Vietnam (1954‐75) has proved that it is possible to speed up industrialization and modernization in a poor country without precipitating an exodus from the countryside or huge urban concentrations. However, this policy of decentralized development has its own contradictions.

SALVATION IN THE SLUMS: EVANGELICAL SOCIAL WORK, 1865–1920. By Norris Magnuson.ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE: THE HEALING & CHARISMATIC REVIVALS IN MODERN AMERICA. By David Edwin Harrel, Jr.MIND AND IMAGE: AN ESSAY ON ART AND ARCHITECTURE. By Herb Greene.OUTLAW AESTHETICS: ARTS AND THE PUBLIC MIND. By Fred E. H. Schroeder.MEDICINE WITHOUT DOCTORS: HOME HEALTH CARE IN AMERICAN HISTORY. Edited by Guenter B. Risse, Ronald L. Numbers and Judith Walzer Leavitt.YOUR ERRONEOUS ZONES. By Wayne W. Dyer.SINGING FOR POWER: THE SONG MAGIC OF THE PAPAGO INDIANS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA. By Ruth Murray Underhill.AFTER NINETY. By Imogen Cunningham.

Bureau of Labor cost-of-living statistics are available for only 40 standard metropolitan statistical areas in four regions of the United States. To compute budget estimates for regions other than these, an equation was obtained through a stepwise regression analysis. Predictors in this included a dummy variable (residence in the South), median cost of an owner-occupied house, heating degree days, a time variable for the year in question, & hundreds of persons per square mile in the area. The medium level income could be estimated as a result of application of the equation. 2 Tables. Modified HA.

Recent events in Southern Africa have focused attention on the hundreds of thousands of migrant workers in that region, and this short article recalls the role of those from Malawi – before that country became independent – in the strike which held up the construction of the Kariba dam in 1959. As is well known, there had been previous strikes in this area,1 but the Kariba walk-out coincided with an outbreak of opposition to colonial rule in Nyasaland, and prompted the declaration of a state of emergency, perhaps the first unmistakeable sign that the Central African Federation was doomed.

If there was a single development that stbod out among everything that transpired in Asia in 1975 it was the capitulation of South Vietnam to a pro-Communist regime. The "fall" of Vietnam holds implications that extend far beyond contemporary Southeast Asia;it was an event that perfectly symbolized the play-out in Asia of the entire history of postwar politics. Regardless of how one may judge the war in Vietnam itself, or the whole issue of Indochina, for that matter, to overlook the wider significance of what culminated in 1975 is to lose one's grip on any real understanding of what the Vietnam war meant.

Yugoslav nationalism like other European nationalist movements is largely the product of the nineteenth century. The peoples of Yugoslavia were separated by cultural differences which seemed minor when compared with those of their occupiers, the Germanic Hapsburgs and the Ottoman Turks. The dream uniting the South Slavic peoples was the achievement of liberation from both foreign overlords. The conditions of the Balkans in the nineteenth century constituted the fertile ground in which the Yugoslav ideal flourished. The Yugoslav ideal became a uniting ideology which enabled all the Slavic peoples to play their role in the quest for liberation.