Long-term Planning

In its program for underdeveloped areas, the United Nations faces on a large scale the need to effect concrete adaptations of the habits of indigenous peoples to modern knowledge and technology. Research to determine the best methods of procedure has disclosed that, in certain areas, previous attempts on the part of administrators to introduce innovations and make changes which could not be integrated into the cultural pattern of the indigenous people proved unsatisfactory to them and costly to the government concerned. In most cases, changes in diet, crops and habits of work—let alone the introduction of industrial disciplines—may not be pressed down like a cookie-cutter on a going society. The administration of change often proves a disconcertingly stubborn affair, exasperating both to the administrator and to the people whom he seeks to catch up into the ways of "progress."

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• Applied Anthropology and International Health

  George M Foster, George Foster•Human Organization•1982

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• Chinese Anthropology and New China's Policy towards her Minorities

  Open Access•Gutorm Gjessing•Acta Sociologica•1957

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• The Fijians. A Study of the Decay of Custom

  William Churchill, Basil Thomson•Bulletin of the American…•1909

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