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Plant resources used by the Ayoreo of the Paraguayan Chaco
Economic Botany, 1994An ethnobotanical study was carried out among the Ayoreo of the Paraguayan Chaco to document their use of food plants. Scientific and Ayoreo names as well as uses have been provided for 33 gathered and 12 cultivated food plants.
Guillermo Schmeda-Hirschmann
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The Healing Words of the Ayoreo
2022This chapter deals with the intersection between language and traditional medicine of the Ayoreo, an Indigenous population of the Boreal Chaco in South America. In traditional Ayoreo culture, the word itself can exert magic power on reality, and this manifests itself in the taboo characters of myths and magic formulas.
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Ayoreo Women and Access to Health Care
2021This chapter explores how multiculturalism is articulated and experienced as a contemporary form of governance in Paraguay, revealing how multicultural citizenship is constructed by colliding agendas that ultimately reproduce colonial hierarchies, that continue to exclude indigenous peoples from accessing state resources and services.
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Magic and medicinal plants of the Ayoreos of the Chaco Boreal (Paraguay)
Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 1993The Ayoreo is a hunter-gatherer tribe of Amerindians which occupy the central-northern part of the Paraguayan Chaco. The whole Ayoreo culture cannot be disassociated from religious beliefs. Disease is considered of supernatural origin and as the result of breaking or disobeying the tabu which regulates existence. A description of the shamanic practices
Guillermo Schmeda-Hirschmann
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Tree ash as an Ayoreo salt source in the Paraguayan Chaco
Economic Botany, 1994The Ayoreo, an Amerindian group of the Paraguayan Chaco, use ash from several plant species as sources of salt. The elemental composition of the ash ofMaytenus vitis-idaea, Lycium nodosum, Trithrinax schizophylla and another sample which serve as salt sources are reported and the use of vegetal salts by indigenous South American populations is ...
Guillermo Schmeda-Hirschmann
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Glimpses of Emergence in the Ayoreo Video Project
Visual Anthropology Review, 2017Drawing upon scenes from a recent Indigenous video workshop in Paraguay, the essay details the emergent forms of perception, imagery, and experience that were unique to the video workshop form. The aim of the essay is to write present‐tense difference through such emergent visual forms rather than through increasingly common aesthetic frameworks of ...
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Evolutionary implications of the ethnography and demography of Ayoreo Indians
Journal of Human Evolution, 1978The Ayoreo Indians of southern Bolivia and northern Paraguay are still a relatively unacculturated tribe whose members live at present in association with nine missions. Five of these populations were studied by us. Previously they were semi-nomadic hunters and gatherers.
A.A. Pérez Diez, F.M. Salzano
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Prevalence of Chagas' disease in Ayoreo communities of the Paraguayan Chaco.
Tropical medicine and parasitology : official organ of Deutsche Tropenmedizinische Gesellschaft and of Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), 1994The prevalence of Chagas' disease in Ayoreo amerindians living in their traditional habitat of the Paraguayan Chaco was assessed by ELISA and indirect immunofluorescence techniques. The Ayoreo is the last hunther-gatherer tribe of the Paraguayan Chaco and was "pacified" between 1965 and 1975. They still maintain a seminomadic way of life.
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