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Beyond the Pure and the Authentic: Indigenous modernity in Andean Bolivia
, 2015 This article explores the various forms in which indigenous practices and worldviews articulate with the modern, leading to the formation of a distinct indigenous modernity.
Tathagatan Ravindran
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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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, 2017 This is the second of two issues of Water History devoted to scholarship exploring water histories as experienced and understood by Indigenous peoples.
Sue Jackson +7 more
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South American Camelids: their values and contributions to people [PDF]
, 2020 South American Camelids (SACs) make several material and non-material contributions to people and are a key component of the Andean biocultural heritage.
Vila, Bibiana Leonor, Arzamendia, Yanina
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AnuacIn this article, as a part of an ongoing dialogue, we reflect on the relevance of Tim Ingold’s recent theoretical propositions for our own anthropological experiences with indigenous people in Andean Bolivia and Argentina.
Koen De Munter, Daniela Salvucci
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Arsenic Exposure and Cancer-Related Proteins in Urine of Indigenous Bolivian Women
Frontiers in Public Health, 2020 Indigenous people living in the Bolivian Andes are exposed through their drinking water to inorganic arsenic, a potent carcinogen. However, the health consequences of arsenic exposure in this region are unknown.
Jessica De Loma +6 more
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Latin American Research Review, 2001 AbstractMost studies of civil society in Latin America have focused on urban social and political actors. In the Ecuadorian Andes, however, civil society has crystallized around the institutions of indigenous rural community that developed historically in opposition to white-meztizo urban administrative centers.
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Traditional resource rights and indigenous people in the Andes [PDF]
, 2009 Indigenous farmers in the Andean region of Peru are the most extraordinary innovators and conservers of agricultural biodiversity. The potato originates in this area, and during centuries of experimentation and domestication farmers have bred and ...
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Revisiter les frontières et réparer l’histoire
Anthropologie & Santé, 2013 Crossing boundaries is a well-known practice for Aymara people living in northern Chile, Peru and Bolivia. This population lives in a set of different ecological environments, blended together by means of what has been called vertical complementarity ...
Alejandra Carreño Calderón
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Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics, 2022 This study takes a historical and analytical tour of the experiences, ways of life and community knowledge oriented towards the construction of alternatives to achieve development in the communities of Cotacachi and Yunguilla, Ecuador.
Anita Krainer +2 more
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