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ABSTRACT Objective This study explores how and why West African and Caribbean heritage mothers in the Netherlands engage in ethnic‐racial socialization. Background West African and Caribbean communities have long histories in the Netherlands. Even though parents from these communities are tasked with helping children navigate mainstream Dutch culture ...
Daudi van Veen +2 more
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Ethnic and Gender Wage Gaps in Ecuador [PDF]
Returns to labor for workers with similar endowments of productive characteristics in Ecuador are influenced by two characteristics that, arguably, should play no role on the determination of wages: gender and ethnicity. This paper analyzes wage gaps due
Hugo Nopo, Lourdes Gallardo
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Summary Tropical peatlands are critical for climate mitigation due to their dual role as major carbon sinks and methane sources. In rainforests, high and stable rainfall supports peat accumulation in tropical climates. However, groundwater‐fed peatlands in seasonally dry tropical ecosystems remain poorly understood, despite their potential importance ...
Larissa S. Verona +11 more
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The main question of this study asks about to what extent people’s identification with an ethno-racial category—in the case of Peru, Quechua, Aymara, Amazonian ethnic group, or Afro-descendant—is conditioned by “living” memory practises that are present ...
Raúl Castro-Pérez +2 more
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On Making Descendant Communities: Three Case Studies From Historical Bioarchaeology
ABSTRACT Bioarchaeologists, museums and universities, journal editorial boards, and academic professional organizations are working toward ethical engagements with human remains, with a focus on descendant community engagement. This article reexamines past and present bioarchaeological descendant community engagement to consider how “descendant ...
Alanna L. Warner‐Smith +2 more
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Water and Basic Sanitation in Latin America and the Caribbean [PDF]
human development, water ...
Juan Emilio Hernández Mazariegos
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Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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Anthropologist, heal thyself: Toward an anthropology of healing through relational interbeing
Abstract I call for an anthropology that confronts its own woundedness. Anthropologists often bear witness to suffering but rarely examine how our own grief, trauma, and institutional distress shape the affective tone of our work. Drawing on fieldwork with Runa (Quechua) women affected by forced sterilization in Peru and guided by my collaborator and ...
Lucía Isabel Stavig
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AFRO-DESCENDANTS AS SUBJECTS OF RIGHTS IN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
The incorporation of the theme of Afro-descendants in international human rights law is relatively new. Only 18 years ago, the issue was raised at the Regional Conference of the Americas held in preparation for the Third World Conference against Racism ...
Roberto Rojas Dávila
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Dossier Presentation: Agencies and Materialities in Afro-Latin America
This text is based on ethnographic researches about the relationships between people and Afro-descendant collectives in Caribbean and Latin American with monuments, artifacts, performances, artworks, collections, food, spiritual and ‘natural’ beings, and
Alline Torres Dias da Cruz +1 more
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