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Culture change

Index of SIL publications on Culture change listed by country.

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General works

• Headland, Thomas N. 1996. "Missionaries and social justice: Are they part of the problem or part of the solution?."
• Huttar, G. L. 1998. Review of: The Bible in African Christianity: essays in Biblical theology, by Hannah W. Kinoti and John M. Waliggo, editors.
• Lloyd, Robert B. 1996. "Globalism and self-determination: a review article."
• Pike, Kenneth L. 1957. "A training device for translation theory and practice (Language and life, part 3)."
• Pike, Kenneth L. 1961. "Stimulating and resisting change."
• Priest, Lorna. 1992. Review of: Literacy, language and learning—the nature and consequences of reading and writing, David R. Olson, Nancy Torrance and Angela Hildyard, editors.
• Ray, Chesley W. 2007. Review of: Just and lasting change: when communities own their futures, by Daniel Taylor-Ide and Carl E. Taylor.  
• Saurman, Todd. 1994. "A review and application of the book, The Western impact on world music: Change, adaptation and survival."
• Stark, John E. 2008. "Reflections on identifying change-gates."  
• Trudell, Barbara. 2002. "Introduction: vulnerability and opportunity among Africa's youth."

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Côte d’Ivoire

• Hill, Harriet S. 1990. "Marriage and morality among the Adioukrou."

Ghana

• Hampton, Roberta S. 1994. "Adult mother tongue literacy as developed by GILLBT."
• Hampton, Roberta S. 1994. "Spiritual and social impact of literacy on language communities."

Americas

Brazil

• Chapman, Shirley. 1985. "Problems in Paumarí acculturation."

Canada

• Barber, Stephen J. 1990. "Adapting to a culture in transition."

Ecuador

• Boster, James S., James Yost and Catherine Peeke. 2004. "Rage, revenge, and religion: honest signaling of aggression and nonaggression in Waorani conditional violence."
• Wiebe, Neil. 1994. "Changing authority patterns among the Chachilla."
• Yost, James A. 1980. Twenty years of contact: the mechanisms of change in Huao ("Auca") culture.

Guatemala

• Bradley, C. Henry and David F. Oltrogge. 1987. "Cubulco: Antes y después del desastre."
• Lewis, M. Paul. 1993. "Real men don’t speak Quiché: Quiché ethnicity, Ki-che ethnic movement, Kʼicheʼ nationalism."
• Lewis, M. Paul. 1994. Social change, identity shift and language shift of Kʼicheʼ in Guatemala.

Mexico

• Merrifield, William R. 2009. Insufficient land: the fortunes of the Tlatepuzcan Chinantecs of San Juan Palantla 1928-2005.  

Peru

• Anderson, Ronald J. 1993. "Asheninca history and formal schooling: a story of change in Peruvian Amazonia."
• Daggett, James and Mary Ruth Wise. 1992. "Social consequences of literacy in representative ethnic groups of Peruvian Amazonia."
• Kneeland, Harriet. 1994. "Cultural crisis and ideal values in cultural change among the Matsés of eastern Peru."
• Tuggy, Sheila C. 1985. "Candoshi behavioral change."
• Wonderly, William L. 1968. Review of: El indígena de los Andes: Estudios sobre nuevas formas de obra cristiana entre los indígenas andinos (The Indian of the Andes: Studies on new forms of Christian work among the Andean Indians), Iglesia y Sociedad en América Latina, editors.

Asia

Indonesia

• Brantley, Brent I. 2001. "Identifying Papuan change agents through cognitive style testing."

Nepal

• Toba, Ingrid. 1977. "Folk art and culture change as observed in a Khaling village."

Pakistan

• Khattak, Raj Wali Shah. 2003. "An introduction to Pashtoon culture."

Philippines

• Elkins, Richard E. 1994. "Conversion or acculturation? A study of culture change and its effect on evangelism in Mindanao indigenous societies."
• Headland, Thomas N. 1988. Review of: On the road to tribal extinction: depopulation, deculturation and adaptive well-being among the Batak of the Philippines, by James F. Eder.
• Headland, Thomas N. 2004. "Basketballs for bows and arrows: deforestation and Agta culture change."
• Headland, Thomas N. and Janet D. Headland. 1994. "Westernization, deculturation, or extinction among Agta Negritos? The Philippine population explosion and its effect on a rainforest hunting and gathering society."

Pacific

Papua New Guinea

• Chenoweth, Vida. 1996. "Cultural change and music literacy."
• Chenoweth, Vida. 2001. "Cultural change and music literacy."
• Cooper, Russell E. 1994. "Hang five: Five attitude shifts that can make trainer training work."
• Firchow, Irwin B. and Jacqueline Firchow. 2008. The Rotokas people of Bougainville Island.  
• Litteral, Robert L. 1990. "Tok Pisin: The language of modernization."
• Mattocks, Rich. 2006. "AIDS shell books and SIL. Do we need to re-think shell books? The Martin Luther approach to changing a culture."