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New Phytologist, Volume 250, Issue 5, Page 2946-2965, June 2026.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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HistoriesThis article analyzes the dynamics of racial mixing in two regions with diverse colonial administrations in the second half of the eighteenth century: St.
Cosme Jesús Gómez Carrasco
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Rights, Inequality, and Afro-Descendant Heritage in Brazil
Cultural Anthropology, 2019 For the past thirty years, the Brazilian government has recognized dozens of sites and cultural practices of Afro-descendant groups as national heritage, including the historical maroon site Quilombo dos Palmares. As this site has gained international notoriety, academic research has focused on the value of this historical landmark for commemorating ...
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On Making Descendant Communities: Three Case Studies From Historical Bioarchaeology
American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 190, Issue 1, May 2026.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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Racial Inequality in the Uruguayan Labor Market:An analysis of wage differentials between Afrodescendants and whites. [PDF]
Latin America is a region of sharp inequalities that are far from ethnically blind. In particular, there exists a significant socioeconomic gap between Latin Americans of European and the Afrodescendant and Indigenouos populations.
Marisa Bucheli, Rafael Porzecanski
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To what extent do Latin Americans trust and cooperate? Field experiments on social exclusion in six Latin American countries [PDF]
, 2008 This paper explores the extent to which individuals trust, reciprocate, cooperate and pool risk by using a battery of field experiments containing the trust game, the voluntary contributions mechanism and the risk pooling game; applied in six capital ...
Chong, Alberto +2 more
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The paradox of the autonomy of Afro-descendants in the Colombian Pacific
Sustentabilidade em Debate, 2019 Claudia Leal. Landscapes of Freedom – Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press. 2018. 336 p. ISBN – 13: 978-0-8165-3674-0 (cloth). US$55.00. Figures, maps, graphs, tables, bibliography and index.
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Feminist Anthropology, Volume 7, Issue 1, May 2026.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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The effects of a skill-based intervention for victims of bullying in Brazil [PDF]
, 2016 This study’s objective was to verify whether improved social and emotional skills would reduce victimization among Brazilian 6th grade student victims of bullying.
Braga, Iara Falleiros +7 more
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Anthropologist, heal thyself: Toward an anthropology of healing through relational interbeing
Feminist Anthropology, Volume 7, Issue 1, May 2026.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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