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Extracting vitalities: Cuts in Indigenous women's bodies‐territories (Brazil)
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, I explore the connections between the medicalization of childbirth and environmental devastation through Guarani‐Mbyá understandings of life and the living. I argue that the cuts made to Guarani‐Mbyá women's vaginas (episiotomies) in Brazilian hospitals are experienced and situated on the same cosmopolitical level as the cuts ...
Maria Paula Prates
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Ethnozoology in Brazil: current status and perspectives
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2011 Ancient connections between animals and human are seen in cultures throughout the world in multiple forms of interaction with the local fauna that form the core of Ethnozoology. Historically, ethnozoological publications grew out of studies undertaken in
Alves Rômulo RN, Souto Wedson MS
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Tropical Medicine &International Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Rickettsioses and leptospirosis are infectious diseases often underdiagnosed due to limited knowledge about their epidemiology, pathophysiology, and clinical aspects. Objectives To characterize the seroprevalence and seroincidence of Rickettsia and Leptospira agents and determine their associated factors in rural areas of Urabá ...
Mariana Torres‐Bustamante +4 more
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THE RIVER: INDIGENOUS LITERATURE’S SACRED PLACE
Espaço Ameríndio, 2012 The river invites us to see in a thousand ways: blurring and lens of the eye, it’s perspectivist pedagogy. In its perennial but fickle waters leads us to nomadic revealed secrets about human nature. Perspectivism and instability are two adoptable aspects
Edson "Krenak" Dorneles
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The origin of art according to Karl von den Steinen [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2015 Based on a study of the custom, adopted by ethnologists in the early 20th century, of asking Amerindians of Lowland South America to do drawings in pencil in their notebooks, I explore three forgotten fragments of the history of thinking: the intense ...
Pierre Déléage
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Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2016 The main objective of this paper is to revisit the category known as “brazilianism”. This category is analyzed from a traditional and historical perspective, which regards “brazilianisms” as particular expressions or words, coined in Brazil, that diverge
Bruna Elisa da Costa Moreira
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A Carta Guarani Kaiowá e o direito a uma literatura com terra e das gentes
Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea, 2014 This article proposes to consider the Guarani Kaiowa ’ s Letter as part of contemporary Literature produced in Brazil. This inclusion presents itself as a theoretical challenge because it obligates us to explicit what we understand by “literature”, its ...
Marília Librandi-Rocha
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Very severe tungiasis in Amerindians in the Amazon lowland of Colombia: A case series.
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2019 BACKGROUND:Tungiasis is a parasitic skin disease caused by penetrating female sand fleas. By nature, tungiasis is a self-limiting infection. However, in endemic settings re-infection is the rule and parasite load gradually accumulates over time ...
Hollman Miller +4 more
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Tropical Medicine &International Health, Volume 31, Issue 7, Page 875-894, July 2026.ABSTRACT Objective To analyse mortality, hospitalisations and in‐hospital mortality related to paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) in Brazil, 2000–2024, from a spatio‐temporal and social inequalities perspective. Methods We conducted a mixed ecological study using death certificates from the Mortality Information System and hospital admissions from the ...
Anderson Fuentes Ferreira +9 more
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American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, Volume 201, Issue 4, Page 291-299, June 2026.ABSTRACT In Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), methylphenidate is one of the most widely used drugs, in which patient response significantly impacts prognosis. This study aimed to characterize the molecular profile of 10 genes associated with methylphenidate therapy.
Aline Pasquini Santos +14 more
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