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Revista Investigaciones y Estudios de la UNA, 2023 Andean tubers are a group of basic plants in the security and food sovereignty of Andean community for thousands of years. The conservation of the infra and interspecific diversity of these plants is a strategy for environmental adaptation rooted in the ...
Roger Fabian García-Díaz +4 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.While death remains a popular topic for anthropology, relatively few ethnographic accounts consider the modern bureaucratic processes accompanying it. One such process is public health autopsy, which scholars have largely taken for granted. Existing analysis has regarded it as a form of ‘cultural brokering’ and autopsy reluctance in communities is seen,
David M.R. Orr
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The regulation of the trade name in Peru: Lag and challenge
Derecho PUCP, 2015 This paper analyzes the evolution of the regulation of trade names in the Andean Community and Peru, specifically in regard to its scope of protection from the provisions of article 8 of the Paris Convention (CUP).
Juan Pablo Schiantarelli Gonzalez
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Fashion in Bolivia’s cultural economy [PDF]
, 2018 This article explores the development of Chola Paceña fashions in La Paz, Bolivia. It traces the social and political lineage of the distinctive pollera dress, and its role in traditions that continue to underpin Aymaran social networks and economies ...
Maclean, Kate
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The Shuar of Ecuadorian Amazonia once pursued eminence through warfare and vision quests. While vision quests have been retained, today – settled in villages – they seek eminence through economic success and political leadership. This article examines an apparent paradox: whilst envy suspicions pervade public life, they legitimize rather than level ...
Natalia Buitron, Grégory Deshoullière
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L'Ordinaire des AmériquesThe nutrition transition model attributes the prevalence of overweight and obesity, linked to higher rates of morbidity and mortality, to a uniform and inexorable process in which rural societies, such as the Andean indigenous communities, abandon ...
Carlos Andrés Gallegos-Riofrío +3 more
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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.This study provides the first isotopic analysis of Oligocene mammals from Quebrada Fiera, Mendoza, Argentina, filling a major gap in South American paleontology. It reveals a latitudinal gradient in aridity due to the Andean rain shadow and highlights the role of (semi)permanent water bodies in sustaining diverse herbivore communities. Additionally, it
Dánae Sanz‐Pérez +4 more
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Balancing bossism: State expansion in the face of elite capture
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Central states have often relied on local elites to implement policies in peripheral areas. These strategies may allow otherwise weak states to impose their directives, but they can also be inefficient, particularly when a single elite commands total control over local politics (monopolist capture).
Anna F. Callis, Christopher L. Carter
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Integrational Justice: South America’s Experience
Евразийская интеграция: экономика, право, политика, 2019 Integration justice is the result of supranational courts work in the framework of states’ regional economic unions. The resolution of disputes between states, supranational institutions and economic entities in the framework of the common market of ...
Georgy V. Alekseev, Artur A. Gapeev
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