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Ethnic Identity and Well-Being of Andean Indigenous People: The Effect of Individualistic and Collectivist Value Orientations. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Environ Res Public Health, 2021
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
europepmc   +6 more sources

Biocultural memory of reciprocity: the Mapuche trafkintu as social-ecological relationships of care and vindication [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
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
doaj   +2 more sources

La plurinationalité en Bolivie : vers une nouvelle conception de l’indianité ?

open access: yesCahiers des Amériques Latines, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

The view of the Catholic Church of the Viceroyalty of Peru on indigenous funeral rites [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия ИИ. История, история Русской Православной Церкви, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

High SARS-CoV-2 infection rates and viral loads in community-dwelling individuals from rural indigenous and mestizo communities from the Andes during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador

open access: yesFrontiers in Medicine, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

Genomic evidence for adaptation to tuberculosis in the Andes before European contact

open access: yesiScience, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

Intercultural Childbirth: Impact on the Maternal Health of the Ecuadorian Kichwa and Mestizo People of the Otavalo Region [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

Las fiestas con las guaguas de pan en Obonuco, Nariño, Colombia

open access: yesAntípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

Walking in the footsteps of the forefathers. The concept of “ancestry” between political use of molecular biology and indigenous territory, understood as a relationship between the living and the dead

open access: yesArchivio Antropologico Mediterraneo, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

Human myiasis in Ecuador. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
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
core   +1 more source

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