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Ethnic Identity and Well-Being of Andean Indigenous People: The Effect of Individualistic and Collectivist Value Orientations. [PDF]
The aim of this research was to evaluate the mediating effect of the value orientations of collectivism and individualism on the relationship between ethnic identity and well-being, the latter conceived from the worldview of Andean natives. For this purpose, under an observational and cross-sectional design, 395 Lickan-Antay adults (57% women) living ...
Gutiérrez-Carmona A +2 more
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Biocultural memory of reciprocity: the Mapuche trafkintu as social-ecological relationships of care and vindication [PDF]
Reconsidering the relationship between humans and more-than-human beings amid global crises has brought reciprocity practices between people and biodiversity to the forefront.
Gonzalo Salazar +5 more
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La plurinationalité en Bolivie : vers une nouvelle conception de l’indianité ?
This article proposes to analyse the place of Andean indigenous peoples in one of the policies of the Plurinational State: indigenous native peasant justice.
Élise Gadea
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The view of the Catholic Church of the Viceroyalty of Peru on indigenous funeral rites [PDF]
the article analyzes the Church's position on the funeral rites that were practiced by the Peruvian Indigenous in the early colonial period. First, the author presents a brief description of the Andean funeral rite, most of the elements of which (the ...
Elena Novoselova
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BackgroundNeglected indigenous groups and underserved rural populations in Latin America are highly vulnerable to COVID-19 due to poor health infrastructure and limited access to SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis.
Diana Morales-Jadán +40 more
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Genomic evidence for adaptation to tuberculosis in the Andes before European contact
Summary: Most studies focusing on human high-altitude adaptation in the Andean highlands have thus far been focused on Peruvian populations. We present high-coverage whole genomes from Indigenous people living in the Ecuadorian highlands and perform ...
Sophie K. Joseph +10 more
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Intercultural Childbirth: Impact on the Maternal Health of the Ecuadorian Kichwa and Mestizo People of the Otavalo Region [PDF]
Objective Considering the increased frequency of maternal deaths reported from 2001 to 2005 for Indigenous andmestizo women from the Ecuadorian rural area ofOtavalo,where the Kichwa people has lived for centuries, the objective of the present article is
Susana Eulalia Dueñas Matute +2 more
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Las fiestas con las guaguas de pan en Obonuco, Nariño, Colombia
Every summer brings the guaguas de pan (anthropomorphic figures made of wheat flour) festival to southwestern Colombia, with all its castles —or wooden structures covered with bread guaguas—, agricultural products, drinks, and roasted guinea pigs. In the
Patricia Cerón-Rengifo +2 more
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Kichwa indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon Forest have been facing, for several years, a territorial conflict due to the establishment of a natural park on their homelands.
Laura Volpi
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Human myiasis in Ecuador. [PDF]
We review epidemiological and clinical data on human myiasis from Ecuador, based on data from the Ministry of Public Health (MPH) and a review of the available literature for clinical cases.
Calvopina, M +5 more
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