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Extracting vitalities: Cuts in Indigenous women's bodies‐territories (Brazil)

open access: yesMedical 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
wiley   +1 more source

A reorganization of locatives prepositions a, en, and por in Spanish in contact with Guarani [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
En esta investigación se explica la emergencia de nuevos significados en las preposiciones locativas a, en y por en variedades de español en contacto con guaraní a partir del concepto de “cambio indirecto inducido por contacto” (Palacios, 2007) y se da
Palacios, Azucena
core   +3 more sources

Harnessing the benefits of herbarium specimen digitisation for inferring recent and ongoing plant extinctions

open access: yesNew Phytologist, EarlyView.
Summary Evidence for the ongoing biodiversity crisis rests on assessment of a small fraction of described species, with major knowledge gaps for most organisms, including plants. Here, we highlight how digitised herbarium specimens can be used to accelerate and improve estimates of recent and ongoing plant extinctions.
Aelys M. Humphreys   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

La langue guarani, symbole instrumentalisé de la construction de la nation paraguayenne

open access: yesLes Cahiers ALHIM, 2008
The Paraguayan nation was built on the myth of  a hybrid nation composed of the best of the Guarani culture and the best of the Hispanic culture. This hybridization found its expression at the linguistic level in the Guarani / Castilian bilingualism, a ...
Christine Pic-Gillard
doaj   +1 more source

Differential Object Marking in Paraguayan Guaraní [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Differential Object Marking (DOM), the appearance of a direct object marker on some but not all direct objects in a language, has been the focus of a substantial body of literature.
Shain, Cory
core  

Impact Reactivation of a Hydrothermal System in Basalt in the Vargeão Dome Impact Structure, Brazil

open access: yesJournal of Geophysical Research: Planets, Volume 131, Issue 2, February 2026.
Abstract As hydrous minerals have been observed in impact craters on Mars, impact‐generated hydrothermal systems (IGHSs) have been considered as potential habitats for life on that planet. The Vargeão Dome, a 12 km wide impact structure in southern Brazil, was formed in basalts with at least two hydrothermal alteration stages.
Jitse Alsemgeest   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The last Charrua Indian; (Uruguay): analysis of the remains of Chief Vaimaca Perú. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Uruguay is the only Latin American country that at present lacks Native populations and little is known about its prehistoric populations. In the construction of National identity, the unique reference to Natives is about Charra Indians, one of the most ...
Carlos Pizzarossa   +11 more
core   +1 more source

Pathogenic Variants in Mennonites From Southern Brazil: Implications for Preventive Measures in Public Health

open access: yesClinical Genetics, Volume 109, Issue 2, Page 266-276, February 2026.
In 325 exomes of South Brazilian Mennonites, we identified 23 pathogenic variants (P) and 27 likely P, with founder effects identified for 96% of P, whose frequencies differed from non‐Finnish Europeans, Amish, and Brazilian populations. ABSTRACT The Mennonite population has a unique history of 500 years of genetic isolation shaped by at least three ...
Luiza Beatriz Mayer de Lima   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lenguas y mundos guaraníes. Diálogos y reflexiones desde las humanidades. Editado por Rodrigo Villalba Rojas y Silvina Paz. Ciudad de Buenos Aires: Editorial Sb, 2024. 336 págs.  

open access: yesLatin American Literary Review
Lenguas y mundos guaraníes. Diálogos y reflexiones desde las humanidades. Editado por Rodrigo Villalba Rojas y Silvina Paz. Ciudad de Buenos Aires: Editorial Sb, 2024. 336 págs.
Violeta Percia
doaj   +1 more source

Notes on current Mbyá-Guarani medicinal plant exchanges in southern Brazil

open access: yesJournal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2021
Background Experts in the Atlantic Forest, the Guarani people have the habit of transporting and exchanging plants due to their mobility throughout the territory.
Julian Henrique Carlotto de Andrade   +16 more
doaj   +1 more source

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