DEVS 240 Lecture 1: Trinkets and Beads

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Global Development Studies
• Course: DEVS 240
• Professor: Paritosh Kumar

Document Summary

Note the various ways that development affects the hurani way of life: the development brought through the arrival of the oil companies brought a lot of environmental damages to the hurani environment. It affected the sources of clean drinking water. It affected the health of the people and animals living in the infected areas. It made the hurani people dependent on western products in order fulfill their basic needs: the development brought by the missionaries brought: A western religious view which resulted in losses of indigenous beliefs. Notice the contrasting views of development held by the oil industry executives and the huarani people: development. What was the role of missionairies: according to the tribe leader, the missionaries came first to make it less dangerous for the oil companies to exploit the land by softening the hearts of the people.