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Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage: The Amazonian Kichwa People [PDF]
Land, 2021 Indigenous communities express their concern about the weakening and low appreciation of their millenary and ancestral manifestations and knowledge, due to society’s accelerated globalization.
Claudia Patricia Maldonado-Erazo +3 more
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Social Use through Tourism of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Amazonian Kichwa Nationality
Land, 2023 The traditional trend in heritage management focuses on a conservationist strategy, i.e., keeping heritage in a good condition while avoiding its interaction with other elements.
Claudia Patricia Maldonado-Erazo +3 more
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Codification and Its Discontents: the Emergence of »Customary Rights« of Amazonian Kichwa in Ecuador [PDF]
Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History, 2016 Over the last decades, most Latin American States have been engaged in processes of legal recognition of indigenous rights at the international and constitutional levels. Consequently, the extent to which »indigenous customary norms«
Barbara Truffin
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Three Alkaloids from an Apocynaceae Species, Aspidosperma spruceanum as Antileishmaniasis Agents by In Silico Demo-case Studies [PDF]
Plants, 2020 This paper is focused on demonstrating with a real case that Ethnobotany added to Bioinformatics is a promising tool for new drugs search. It encourages the in silico investigation of “challua kaspi”, a medicinal kichwa Amazonian plant (Aspidosperma ...
Diana Morales-Jadán +3 more
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Revista de Llengua i Dret - Journal of Language and Law, 2019 This article adds to the discussion on standardisation of minority languages spoken in primarily oral cultures. Focusing on Amazonian Kichwa (Quechuan, lowland Ecuador), we show how the introduction of a written standard can undermine language ...
Karolina Grzech +2 more
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Chiricaspi (Brunfelsia grandiflora, Solanaceae), a Pharmacologically Promising Plant [PDF]
Plants, 2018 This study’s objective was to evaluate the rescued traditional knowledge about the chiricaspi (Brunfelsia grandiflora s.l.), obtained in an isolated Canelo-Kichwa Amazonian community in the Pastaza province (Ecuador).
Carmen X. Luzuriaga-Quichimbo +4 more
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Mediterranean Botany, 2018 Tabernaemontana sananho is a tree member of the Apocynaceae family referred to as sikta in Kichwa language. It is widely used in northern South America as painkiller, stimulant, antiseptic and is also highly valued as a sacred plant.
Carmen X. Luzuriaga-Quichimbo +3 more
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Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo, 2021 Kichwa indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon Forest have been facing, for several years, a territorial conflict due to the establishment of a natural park on their homelands.
Laura Volpi
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Against ontological capture: Drawing lessons from Amazonian Kichwa relationality [PDF]
Review of International Studies, 2021 AbstractThis article offers an experiment in theorising within or across a ‘space’ of ontological disagreement – which, as numerous authors have contended, characterises much that is at stake in relations between states and Indigenous peoples in the Americas.
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Jumandy, le héros national des Napo Runa : généalogie de la création d’un héros amazonien
Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2021 In this paper we describe the creation process of an Amazonian hero. Jumandy was one of the leaders of an indigenous rebellion against the Spaniards that took place in 1578 in the upper Napo area.
Arthur Cognet
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