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Exiled From Their Own Lands: Indigenist Policies, Oil, and Colonial Plunder in 20th Century Venezuela

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the historical displacement of Indigenous peoples in Venezuela, focusing on the links between indigenist policies and the exploitation of natural resources, particularly oil, throughout the 20th century. Using a combined historical and ethnographic approach, it demonstrates how the formation of the Venezuelan nation‐state
Gabriel Tardelli
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Phylogeny and historical biogeography of the Pachira sensu lato clade (Bombacoideae, Malvaceae) with a new infrageneric classification

TAXON, Volume 75, Issue 1, February 2026.
Abstract We explore phylogenetic relationships within the Pachira sensu lato clade (Bombacoideae, Malvaceae), test the monophyly of the genera Eriotheca and Pachira, and investigate their biogeographic history. The Pachira s.l. clade comprises ca. 72 species that traditionally have been placed in Eriotheca and Pachira. We sampled ca. 79% of its species
Vania Nobuko Yoshikawa, Júlia Sousa Siqueira, William S. Alverson, Rafaela Passos Camargo, Alexandre Wagner Silva Hilsdorf, Letícia Rafaela de Morais, Flávia Fonseca Pezzini, Marília Cristina Duarte   +7 more
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Amazonian fish migration as a social–cultural–ecological process

People and Nature, Volume 7, Issue 12, Page 3297-3312, December 2025.
Abstract In this study, we highlight the rich perspectives and explanations of fish migration held by Indigenous groups across the Amazon. We present the aspects of Indigenous cosmological stories, drawing from our exploratory review of cultural ethnographies and grey literature, as well as the authors' own experiences. We ask, how do Amazonian peoples
LuLu Victoria‐Lacy, Thiago B. A. Couto, Natalia C. Piland, Jesús Dámaso, Stephannie Fernandes, Simone Athayde, Elizabeth P. Anderson   +6 more
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Fatores explicativos do suicídio pela visão indígena: uma revisão de literatura [PDF]

Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas)
Resumo Objetivo O suicídio indígena no Brasil é um fenômeno epidemiológico, complexo e multifatorial, e a busca pelos seus fatores de risco ainda não trouxe respostas conclusivas.
Geana Baniwa, Marcelo Calegare
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Linguistic Diversification and Rates of Change: Insights From a Diverse Sample of Sociolinguistic Studies

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 6, November/December 2025.
ABSTRACT Language diversification and change can be studied using phylogenetic modelling of families over thousands of years, or by close observation of changes unfolding over a few decades at the community level. While the phylogenetic approach uses data from hundreds of languages to make cross‐linguistic generalisations, community‐level studies of ...
John Mansfield
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Dynamics of Genetic Polymorphisms Linked to the Gene for Hemophilia A (F8) in the Brazilian Population

, 2010
A Hemofilia A é uma doença sanguínea condicionada por gene localizado no cromossomo X. É causada pela deficiência parcial ou total da atividade do Fator VIII (FVIII), uma glicoproteína plasmática cuja função é necessária para a coagulação normal do ...
Juliana Doblas Massaro
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A CONSTRUÇÃO DE DICIONÁRIO BILINGUE E BIDIALETAL PARA LÍNGUA MEDZENIAKONAI (BANIWA - KORIPAKO)

Cadernos de Linguística
Objetivo do presente trabalho é apresentar o resultado preliminar sobre a construção de um dicionário bilíngue e bidialetal Baniwa-koripako-português. O termo Medzeniakonai (Baniwa-Koripako) refere-se tanto ao povo indígena quanto à língua falada pelos ...
Artur Garcia Gonçalves
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Fair Trade Practices in the Northwest Brazilian Amazon [PDF]

BAR: Brazilian Administration Review, 2011
This paper describes and analyzes the Arte Baniwa project, a sustainable development project based on the production and commercialization of Baniwa indigenous basketwork with the support of the Instituto Socioambiental (ISA), a major NGO in Brazil.
Rafael D’Almeida Martins
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Thinking with Amazonian Indigenous Peoples to expand ideas on domestication

People and Nature, Volume 7, Issue 3, Page 560-574, March 2025.
Abstract Indigenous knowledges are being increasingly recognized as fundamental for environmental governance, ecosystem management and biodiversity conservation. However, they tend to be recognized by Western science only when they converge with Western scientific knowledge, while ontological differences are generally treated as irrelevant or ...
Mariana Franco Cassino, Guilherme Henriques Soares, Gilton Mendes dos Santos, Jonilda Hauwer Gouveia, João Paulo Lima Barreto, Dagoberto Lima Azevedo, Gabriel Sodré Maia, Juliana Lins, Clarinda Maria Ramos, Myrtle Pearl Shock, Marco Madella, Charles Roland Clement   +11 more
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Politiques baniwa de la boisson : usages et représentations de l’alcool chez des indiens évangéliques de l’Amazonie brésilienne

Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2016
The scientific literature has already refuted the very widespread – in both North America and Latin America – prejudice that Indians are predisposed to alcoholism.
Elise Capredon
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