Indigenous People
by Purushothaman Venkatesan (ed.)
Publisher: InTech 2017
ISBN-13: 9789535134824
Number of pages: 196
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Indigenous peoples are the native ethnic groups, who are descended from and identified with the original inhabitants of a region, in contrast to groups that have settled, occupied, or colonized the area more recently. This book entitled Indigenous People is an attempt to bring out the analysis of indigenous environment, indigenous technical knowledge, indigenous resource governance, and indigenous entrepreneurship and empowerment.
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