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traditional ethnic and socio-cultural identity. The casestudy is contextualized within a theoretical discussionof acculturation approaches to ethnology.~ 1. 28 ~Fisher, Robin, and Kenneth Coates, eds. Out of theBackyard; Readings on Canadian Native History.Ontario: Copp Clark Pitman Ltd. , 1988. ISBN 0-7730-4-767-0.Fisher and Coates have assembled a stimulatingcollection of articles on the history of contact ofEuropeans with Indian and Inuit peoples. The rangeof arguments and the diversity of both historical periodsand peoples considered make this an important work.While one paper specifically looks at the physicaldestruction of the island Beothuck people, a numberof others consider the cultural ramifications of contact.What emerges is a multidimensional picture of destructionand cultural adaptation in which native power isseen to be a persistent and compelling force in thedeterminationof contact history. The value of thiscollection is its revelation of the complexity of contactwhich challenges a unilinear process of the wholesaledestruction of native cultures. It implies that ethnocidecan be a subtle process.~ 1. 29 ~Gailey, Christine Ward. "Categories without Culture:Structuralism, Ethnohistory and Ethnocide. " DialecticalAnthropology 8:3 (1983): 241-250.Gailey's paper is an academic warning of theshortcomings of a structuralist approach to understandingthe perpetuation of ethnic cultures over time. Sheargues that a structuralist perspective can result in aform of academic blindness which excludes otherpossible interpretations of cultural change wrought bycontact with early European colonialism, such asethnocide.~ 1. 30 ~Gilbert, Martin. ?he Macmillan Atlas of the Holocaust.New York: Macmillan, 1984. ISBN 0-306-80218.Gilbert's useful and interesting book providesdetailed information on the Nazi deportations ofEuropean Jews throughout the occupied territories. Itbrings to the fore the chaos of Nazi policy. Much ofthe book is given to maps of the journeys and isaccompanied by a useful and upsetting text.*1. 31 ~Goodman, Michael Harris. ?he Last Dalai Lama.London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1986. ISBN 0-283-99367-7.Goodman's work is a biography of His Holinessthe Fourteenth Dalai Lama. Although much of the bookcovers the pre-1950 period, a substantial section isdedicated to the sustained efforts to preserve Tibetanidentity and culture despite the force of Chineseoppression. The difficulties of success are vividlyexplained and the changing forms of Chinese destructionare explored in detail. The contradictions betweenTibetan rights under the Chinese constitution and theirbrutal fate under Chinese rule, are highlighted inChapter 16, where barbarous examples are cited todemonstrate how Articles 11, 88, 89, and 96 have beenbroken. It is a highly readable account, chronologicallyordered with much detail.~ 1. 32 *Hauptman, Laurence M. ?he Iroquois Struggle forSurvival. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1986.ISBN 0-8156-2349-6.Hauptman's book is a rare study of Iroquoisnationalism from World War II to 1973 and thetakeover at Wounded Knee. From the 1940s, retrogressivepolicy in the Bureau of Indian Affairs severelythreatened the continuation of Iroquois culture in favorof programs for their total assimilation into whiteculture. A large part of the book reconstructs thecontinuing struggles between Iroquois representativesand United States policies.~ 1. 33 ~Hernandez, Deborah Pacini. Resource Developmentand Indigenous People. Occasional Paper no. 15.Cambridge, MA: Cultural Survival, Inc. , 1986. LC85-143558.Hernandez evaluates the impact of the El Cerejoncoal strip mining project in northern Colombia uponthe indigenous Guajoros which "may indeed result intheir extinction as a culture. " (p. 3) The report assessesthe early phase of development, its planning, andGuajiro response. A number of recommendations aremade to mitigate some of the detrimental effects of theproject, including redistributing portions of landroyalties to Guaj iro communities, initiating ecologicalimprovement schemes, and the development of healthand educational centers which would include culturalprograms to reassert Guajiro culture.* 1. 34 ~Hong, Evelyne. Natives of Sarawak: Survival inBorneo's Vanishing Forests. Malaysia: Institut Masyarakat,1987. ISBN 967-9966-03-8.Hong analyzes the impact of land development,logging schemes, and the construction of hydroelectricdams upon the indigenous people of Sarawak and upontheir subsequent resistance. The erosion of indigenousland rights, changes in forest laws and logging havedestroyed traditional farming and ancestral sites.Ethnoci de 13