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, 2007 Partway along the vast waterways of Brazil's middle Rio Negro, upstream from urban Manaus and downstream from the ethnographically famous Northwest Amazon region, is the town of Castanheiro, whose inhabitants skillfully negotiate a space between the ...
Floyd, S.
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Different reference frames on different axes: Space and language in indigenous Amazonians
Science Advances, 2021 Spatial cognition is central to human behavior, but the way people conceptualize space varies within and across groups for unknown reasons. Here we found that adults from an indigenous Bolivian group used systematically different spatial reference frames on different axes, according to known differences in their discriminability: In both verbal and ...
Benjamin Pitt +4 more
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British Journal of Developmental Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract A cross‐sectional study of 106 students (7–12 years) from a rural school in the Brazilian Amazon investigated the interaction among motor, cognitive and environmental factors on school achievement using network analysis. Students with good school performance were significantly older and showed superior global physical fitness, motor ...
Douglas Vieira +3 more
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Review of river fisheries valuation in Central and South America [PDF]
, 2008 Unlike Africa and Asia, where a large part of the population are heavily dependent upon fishing for their livelihoods, fishing for a living in the interior of Central and South America (CSA) remains a marginal occupation for all but the most isolated of ...
Bennett, E., Thorpe, A.
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The Intersections of Biological Diversity and Cultural Diversity: Towards Integration [PDF]
, 2009 There is an emerging recognition that the diversity of life comprises both biological and cultural diversity. In the past, however, it has been common to make divisions between nature and culture, arising partly out of a desire to control nature.
Adams, Bill +14 more
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International Journal of Management Reviews, EarlyView.Abstract Multinational enterprises (MNEs) face growing pressures from stakeholders to address global challenges and alleviate inequalities endured by disadvantaged communities in the regions where they operate. Given the fragmented conceptual approaches to understanding the relationships between MNEs and these communities, the complex mechanisms ...
Jayne Cathcart +4 more
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Lexis, 2015 The kawapana linguistic family of northeastern Peru is formed by shiwilu and shawi languages, also known as Jebero and Chayahuita respectively. Ordinarily, it is usually categorize kawapana languages as “Amazonian” linguistic entities.
Pilar M. Valenzuela
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Nominal Tense in Crosslinguistic Perspective [PDF]
, 2004 It is a general assumption in linguistic theory that the categories of tense, aspect, and mood (TAM) are inflectional categories of verbal classes only.
Nordlinger, Rachel, Sadler, Louisa
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Animating Traditional Amazonian Storytelling: New Methods and Lessons from the Field [PDF]
, 2016 In this paper I describe the development of digital animation of Desano traditional stories as a way to foster the inclusion of the Desano language in mainstream digital technology media, while promoting language maintenance and dissemination of cultural
Silva, Wilson
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JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how the politicisation of EU trade policy – defined by heightened public salience, stakeholder polarisation and contestation – reshapes agricultural lobbying strategies, with a particular focus on the EU–Mercosur Association Agreement.
Emilio Del Pupo
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