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The genuine sumak kawsay as Ecuadorian Amazonian social phenomenon [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
En este artículo se indaga sobre el origen del concepto de sumak kawsay. Partiendo de la constatación de su existencia como fenómeno social: se muestra cómo surgió como alternativa al desarrollo sustentable en la Organización de Pueblos Indígenas de ...
Cubillo-Guevara, Ana Patricia   +1 more
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Etnoictiología Kichwa de las lagunas de la cuenca baja del río Curaray (Amazonia), Ecuador

open access: yesBiota Colombiana, 2013
The aim of this study was to characterize ichthyological aspects of artisanal fisheries of eight lagoons in the lower area of the River Curaray in the central Amazon of Ecuador, with emphasis on their ichthyological richness, fish uses and the fishing ...
Iván Jácome-Negrete
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History of natural resource use and environmental impacts in an interfluvial upland forest area in western Amazonia

open access: yesFennia: International Journal of Geography, 2014
Much of the research done on environmental impacts by Amazonian indigenous peoples in the past focus on certain areas where archaeological remains are particularly abundant, such as the Amazon River estuary, the seasonally inundated floodplain of the ...
Anders Siren
doaj   +3 more sources

High mosquito diversity in an Amazonian village of Ecuador, surrounded by a Biological Reserve, using a rapid assessment method

open access: yesJournal of Entomological and Acarological Research, 2019
This research represents a study in an Amazonian village that has similar structures to others Kichwa Amazonian villages of Ecuador. We evaluated the diversity, ecology, possibility of mosquitoes/pathogens translocation from forest to urban area, and the
Paul-Leonardo Duque   +6 more
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Loving to Straighten Out Development: Sexuality and ‘Ethnodevelopment’ in the World Bank’s Ecuadorian Lending [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Gender staff in the World Bank -- the world's largest and most influential development institution -- have a policy problem. Having prioritised efforts to get women into paid employment as the "cure-all" for gender inequality they must deal with the work
A Aulestia   +78 more
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Relational Care contra Nihilism

open access: yesDas Questões, 2021
This article engages the Nietzschean problem of nihilism from a “cross-cultural”, comparative vantage-point. In Nietzsche’s diagnosis of the “sickness” of nihilism, the measure of that illness is taken with reference to a particular conception of health – rooted in Nietzsche’s relational ontology of the will to power.
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Nurturing the Future: Examining Breastfeeding Practices and Nutritional Health Among Amazonian Kichwa Mothers and Infants

open access: yes, 2023
Abstract This study examines the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of Amazonian Kichwa (AK) breastfeeding mothers and infants, focusing on cultural influences on early nutrition patterns. Using a descriptive, observational, and cross-sectional approach, thirty women self-identified as AK women and their infants from two rural and one urban ...
Andrea Orellana-Manzano   +12 more
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¿Es necesario elegir entre la estandarización de las lenguas minoritarias y la vitalidad de sus variedades? Estudio de caso del kichwa de Alto Napo [Is it necessary to choose between minority language standardisation and the vitality of its varieties? Alto Napo Kichwa case study] [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
El tema central de este artículo es la estandarización del quichua (kichwa) ecuatoriano y la influencia que tiene este proceso en las variedades minoritarias de la lengua habladas en el país.
Grzech, Karolina
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Amazonian indigenous settlement and local development in Pastaza, Ecuador [PDF]

open access: yesNovedades en Población, 2016
In six Amazonian indigenous communities that call to their selves as membership of nación Kichwa, located in Pastaza province, in Ecuador, it is analyzed the process of inhabitation, population characteristics, how much the territory is enough for ...
Ruth I. Arias-Gutiérrez   +2 more
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