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Mountains, Kurakas and Mummies: Transformations in Indigenous Andean Sovereignty
Población & Sociedad, 2018 This essay argues that Andean mountains have not always embodied indigenous sovereignty as they do today. The lordly titles that mountains now bear were, until the second half of the colonial period, held by ancestral mummies and living indigenous ...
Peter Gose
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Treading the fine white line: cocaine trafficking [PDF]
, 2016 The illicit drug’s trade is a highly profitable business that grasps the interest of millions of people and equally affects millions of others. Cocaine is a highly addictive drug that plagues many countries.
McNicholl, S, O'Hagan, A
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Annals of Human Genetics, Volume 90, Issue 3, Page 202-214, May 2026.ABSTRACT Background and Aims Sherpa highlanders exhibit remarkable tolerance to hypoxia, most likely due to genetic adaptations shaped by natural selection at high altitude. This study examined the roles of endothelial PAS domain protein 1 (EPAS1) and egl‐9 family hypoxia‐inducible factor 1 (EGLN1) in the genetic mechanisms underlying this adaptation ...
Yunden Droma +5 more
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Wilson study cycles: Research relative to ocean geodynamic cycles [PDF]
The effects of conversion of Atlantic (rifted) margins to convergent plate boundaries; oceanic plateaus at subduction zones; continental collision and tectonic escape; southern Africa rifts; and global hot spot distribution on long term development of ...
Kidd, W. S. F.
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Enhancing economic cooperation between the EU and the Americas : an economic assessment [PDF]
, 2002 Suggests that the EU could gain over 100 billion per annum through liberalisation of the EU-US trade relationship. The gains for the US could be as much as $75 billion per year.The studies also highlight the new challenges to transatlantic trade - in ...
Vandenbussche, Hylke +2 more
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American Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 171-182, May 2026.Abstract In Colombia's northeastern borderlands, agrarian economies shape how disease risk and stigma are understood and managed. As shown in ethnographic fieldwork in and around the Catatumbo region, cutaneous leishmaniasis—a sandfly‐transmitted disease that produces chronic skin lesions—appears in two radically different guises across adjacent ...
Javier Lezaun, Lina Pinto‐García
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Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, 2011 El conocimiento de la distribución del oso andino (Tremarctos ornatus), es fundamental para evaluar el estado de conservación de la especie y el desarrollo de medidas de conservación tales como la declaración de nuevas áreas protegidas o la ...
J. Fernando Del Moral Sachetti +1 more
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Quando as fronteiras transnacionalizam as pessoas: repensar o transnacionalismo migrante na tríplice fronteira andina [PDF]
, 2018 This article derives from ethnographic studies developed in the Northern Chilean territories that lie adjacent to Peru and Bolivia. The research results suggest that the daily activities of transborder inhabitants generate frictions between the local ...
Lube Guizardi, Menara
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European Journal of Soil Science, Volume 77, Issue 3, May–June 2026.ABSTRACT Deciphering the time milestones of clay formation is crucial for modeling the evolution of major geological systems near the Earth's surface. In the present study, kaolinite samples collected along four vertical profiles within a Gleysol‐Ferralsol‐Podzol soil toposequence near São Gabriel da Cachoeira, NW Amazon Basin (Brazil) are dated using ...
Célia Regina Montes +8 more
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Human visual identification of individual Andean bears Tremarctos ornatus
Wildlife Biology, 2014 It is often challenging to use invasive methods of individual animal identification for population estimation, demographic analyses, and other ecological and behavioral analyses focused on individual‐level processes. Recent improvements in camera traps make it possible to collect many photographic samples yet most investigators ...
Russell C. Van Horn +4 more
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