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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina TropicalINTRODUCTION The prevalence, public health impact, and epidemiological characteristics of hepatitis E virus (HEV) are poorly understood in Brazil. METHODS Serum samples from 535 individuals from three rural Afro-descendant communities located in ...
Alex Junior Souza de Souza +8 more
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Prevalence of hepatitis A virus infection in Afro-Brazilian isolated communities in Central Brazil
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2007 To investigate hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection rates among isolated African-descendant communities in Central Brazil, 947 subjects were interviewed about demographic characteristics in all 12 isolated Afro-descendant communities existing in the state ...
Aline G Kozlowski +7 more
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Colorism and the Law in Latin America—Global Perspectives on Colorism Conference Remarks [PDF]
, 2015 Today, persons of African descent make up more than forty percent of the poor in Latin America and have been consistently marginalized and denigrated as undesirable elements of the society since the abolition of slavery across the Americas.
Hernandez, Tanya K.
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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Appartenances & AltéritésSince the 1960s, the self-determination process of the Afro-descendant raizal community from the Colombian islands of San Andres and Old Providence has primarily been examined through an instrumentalist and strategic understanding of ethnicity.
Morgane Le Guyader
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A Commitment to Excellence: Our Latin Americanist Faculty [PDF]
, 2011 Latin American ...
LLILAS staff
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EPISTEMIC EXTRACTIVISM IN ENGAGED URBAN AND HOUSING RESEARCH: Implications and Counter‐measures
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract What is ‘epistemic extractivism’, and how does it affect researchers who are engaged in urban and housing movements? This essay first explores the contexts of both engaged research and epistemic extractivism, clarifying their meanings and implications. It also disentangles the ethical and methodological risks posed by epistemic extractivism in
Miguel A. Martínez
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Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The institutional current effort to regulate and increase the quantity and quality of sustainability information reported by companies is undeniable. However, the growing complexity of sustainability reporting standards creates isolated compartments for each major dimension of sustainability, leaving aside their interconnectedness and combined
M. Marco‐Fondevila +3 more
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Appartenances & AltéritésFrom 1960 onwards, the process of self-determination of the Afro-descendant raizal community of the Colombian islands of San Andres and Old Providence (Colombia) has been analyzed mainly through the instrumentalist and strategic prism of ethnicity.
Morgane Le Guyader
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