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Colonial Structure And Andean Insurgency

open access: yes, 2015
Desde el momento mismo de la conquista española del área andina la población indígena fue protagonista de diferentes movilizaciones sociales en las que se expresaron, de una parte, el rechazo a la dominación imperial, de otra, la réplica a los abusos de ...
Bonilla, Heraclio; PUCP   +1 more
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An Exploratory Analysis of Andean Textiles and their Cultural Significance

open access: yes, 2015
This paper investigates the rich legacy of textile production among the indigenous peoples of the Andean region of South America throughout history from the earliest evidence of spun fibers to the present day.
Bellino, Grace
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Katalysis: helping Andean farmers adapt to climate change

open access: yes, 2009
Recent studies of global climate change paint a bleak picture for the Andes. Researchers have proposed expert-led solutions, such as improved climatic modelling and forecasting, and the breeding of drought-tolerant crop varieties.
Sherwood, S.G., Bentley, J.
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LOS ANDES DE BRONCE: CONSCRIPCIÓN MILITAR DE COMUNEROS ANDINOS Y EL SURGIMIENTO DE LAS BANDAS DE BRONCE EN EL NORTE DE CHILE

open access: yesHistoria (Santiago), 2009
El artículo analiza el sistema de conscripción militar de ciudadanos desplegada por el Estado chileno. Se discute el tejido temporal de la Ley de reclutamiento del año 1900, caracterizando el reclutamiento en el territorio nacional, así como en el norte ...
Alberto Díaz Araya
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Mercury (not always rising) and the social economy of nineteenth-century Peru

open access: yesEconomía, 2010
This study focuses on the Peruvian mining industry of mercury or azogue in the nineteenth century.Mercury was a crucial component for Andean and Mexican silver mining during colonialtimes and still in the first century of Republican Peru. However, it was
José R. Deustua
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Imágenes postconquista y etnogénesis en la Quebrada de Humahuaca, Jujuy, Argentina: Hipótesis de trabajo arqueológico

open access: yesMemoria Americana, 2006
Actualmente, y desde el punto de vista arqueológico, es poco lo que se conoce sobre el momento de contacto entre españoles e indígenas en la Quebrada de Humahuaca.
Mariel Alejandra López
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Livelihood strategies in old age: older people and poverty in urban Bolivia.

open access: yes, 2006
This thesis aims to develop greater understanding of older people's livelihood strategies in Latin America. It asks whether their contributions to household and family are reciprocated with care and support.
Skinner, E.J.
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Transformation of local medicinal knowledge in the Andean Highlands: Case studies from Peru and Bolivia

open access: yes, 2009
In the Andean highlands, indigenous environmental knowledge is currently undergoing major changes as a result of various external and internal factors. As in other parts of the world, an overall process of erosion of local knowledge can be observed.
Mathez-Stiefel, Sarah-Lan
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Genetic insights into the peoples who shaped the American continent. [PDF]

open access: yesGenet Mol Biol
Tavares GM   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Review of Canessa, Andrew (2012) "Intimate Indigeneities: Race, Sex, and History in the Small Spaces of Andean Life". Durham & London: Duke University Press

open access: yes, 2015
This book is a masterful synthesis of 20 years’ ethnographic fieldwork in one Bolivian community, the Aymara-speaking Andean settlement of Wila Kjarka.

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