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La ley de lenguas en el Paraguay: ¿un paso decisivo en la oficialización de facto del guaraní?

Signo y Seña, 2016
Los esfuerzos para estandarizar el guaraní, tanto desde el punto de vista social como del corpus, llevan un siglo sin que se haya logrado lo deseado: su oficialización de facto.
Hedy Penner
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Amidst (waste) abundance: world‐making and struggles in hosting a municipal landfill in the Bolivian lowlands Au milieu de l'abondance (de déchets) : fabrication du monde et luttes liées à la gestion d'une décharge municipale dans les basses terres de Bolivie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In recent decades, solid waste has proliferated worldwide, becoming a pressing global issue. This article explores the role of Indigenous people dwelling within and upon emerging waste scenarios, with a specific focus on involved forms of sociality and ontological contestation. Drawing on the case of a municipal landfill sited on a Guarani community in
Vanesa Martín Galán
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Prevalence of epilepsy in the rural area of the Bolivian Gran Chaco: Usefulness of telemedicine and impact of awareness campaigns

Epilepsia Open, 2023
Objective The objective of this study is to estimate the prevalence of epilepsy with Tonic–Clonic (TC) seizures in rural areas of the Bolivian Gran Chaco and to evaluate the usefulness of telemedicine in this context. Methods The study was carried out in
Valeria Todaro, Loretta Giuliano, Calogero Edoardo Cicero, Ludovica Spina, Chiara Colli, Senovia Cuellar, Francesco Cosmi, Estela Vilte, Alessandro Bartoloni, Elizabeth Blanca Crespo Gómez, Alessandra Nicoletti   +10 more
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The birth of an earth being: ‘Rights of nature’ in Brazilian Amazonia and elsewhere Naissance d'un être de la terre : « droits de la nature » en Amazonie brésilienne et ailleurs

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
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Extracting vitalities: Cuts in Indigenous women's bodies‐territories (Brazil)

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I explore the connections between the medicalization of childbirth and environmental devastation through Guarani‐Mbyá understandings of life and the living. I argue that the cuts made to Guarani‐Mbyá women's vaginas (episiotomies) in Brazilian hospitals are experienced and situated on the same cosmopolitical level as the cuts ...
Maria Paula Prates
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The Case for Quantitative Frameworks in Assessing Racial and Ethnic Representation in ELT Materials

TESOL Journal, Volume 17, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This position paper addresses a critical methodological gap in research on racial and ethnic representation in English Language Teaching (ELT) materials. Despite decades of criticism regarding diversity in textbooks, researchers have largely relied on qualitative assessments without establishing quantitative frameworks for measuring ...
Derek Hopper
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Las lenguas indígenas y la historiografía de América Latina

Allpanchis, 2013
La historiografía de América Latina está cada vez más consciente del hecho de que el desarrollo de las lenguas indígenas después de la conquista no se puede entender como un proceso lineal de declive, y que en ellas existen fuentes valiosas provenientes ...
Alan Durston
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Communication Partner Training Practices for People With Aphasia Among Latin American Speech and Language Therapists: A Survey of Implementation Barriers and Facilitators

International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 61, Issue 4, July/August 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Communication Partner Training (CPT) is an evidence‐based approach that enhances conversation and participation for people with aphasia (PwA) by involving their communication partners (CPs) in therapy. Although CPT is endorsed in international guidelines, little is known about its application in Latin American contexts, where ...
Claudia Olivares‐Matus, Anna Volkmer, Suzanne Beeke   +2 more
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Una representación visual de los Chiriguano en la exposición misional de Turín, 1898

Hispania Sacra, 2016
Las exposiciones misionales fueron escenario utilizado por la Iglesia católica para defender sus aportaciones al pensamiento, el arte, la cultura en general, y difundir la utilidad de la institución en la construcción de una sociedad civilizada y moderna.
Pilar García Jordán
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A new catfish species of Microcambeva Costa & Bockmann, 1994 (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from southern Brazil, with a redescription of M. ribeirae Costa, Lima & Bizerril, 2004

Journal of Fish Biology, Volume 109, Issue 1, Page 146-164, July 2026.
Abstract Among the few species of Microcambeva reported as occurring in more than one hydrographic basin, M. ribeirae has been previously listed from both the Ribeira de Iguape and the Guaraqueçaba basins. However, morphological and molecular analyses revealed that the specimens from Guaraqueçaba represent a new species, which is described in this ...
Lucas S. de Medeiros, Igor C. A. Souto‐Santos, Paulo A. Buckup, Juliano Ferrer, Vinicius J. C. Reis, Mario de Pinna, Sergio M. Q. Lima   +6 more
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