Anthropology

THESIS: Progress can be seen as a positive or negative thing depending on the standard of living.

Although, government planners feel that tribal people must sacrifice their traditional cultures to obtain their benefits, tribal people have no chosen progress to enjoy its advantages.

Progress as defined in terms of incomes, higher standards of living, grater security, and better health.

It is an instinscallyethnocentric concept relaying heavily upon indicators that lack universal cultural relevance.

Government planners have always considered economic development and progress beneficial goals that all societies should want to strive toward.

(HEALTH)

Urbanization is one of the prime measures of development, but it is a mixed blessing for most former tribal people.

The disadvantages of the progression in medical sources are the hospitals that are crowded and poor in sanitation. The consequences of this failure are infectious disease, stress and poor nutrition.

Malnutrition and other diet-related conditions are, in fact, one of the characteristic hazards of progress faced by tribal peoples and are discussed in the following sections. The traditional diets of tribal peoples are admirably adapted to their nutritional needs and available food resources.

Everything this diet may seem bizarre and absurd they are unlikely to be improved by drastic modifications. Change always involves risks, but for tribal people the effects of dietary change have been catastrophic.

Any deterioration in the quality of a given population´s diet is almost certain to be reflected in an increase in deficiency diseases and a general decline in health status.

As a result of the dietary change in tribal people´s life, there has been dramatic rise in malnutrition, a massive increase in dental problems, and a variety of other nutritional-related disorders.

(LAND RESOURCES)

Progress not only brings new threats to the health of tribal peoples, but it also imposes new strains on the ecosystem, on which they must depend for their ultimate survival. The introduction of new technology, increased consumption, lowered mortality, and the eradication of all traditional controls have combined to replace what for most tribal peoples was a relatively stable balance between population and natural resources.

It is clear that all of the natural and cultural checks on population growth have suddenly been pushed aside by culture change, while tribal lands have been steadily reduced and consumption levels have risen.

The environmental hazards of economic development rapid population growth have become generally recognized only since worldwide concerns over environmental issues began in the early 1970s. Unfortunately, there is as yet little indications that the leader of the new developing nations are sufficiently concerned with environmental limitations.

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