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ABSTRACT This article examines how Indigenous Paĩ Tavyterã/Kaiowa communities along the Paraguay–Brazil border navigate illicit economies that have proliferated amid the expansion of soybean agribusiness and the withdrawal of the state. Drawing on long‐term ethnographic fieldwork in several communities on both sides of the border, it explores how ...
Paul Fabié
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ABSTRACT The absence of horns (polled trait) in cattle is associated with better animal welfare by reducing the need for dehorning. In Brahman cattle, population size and the scarcity of phenotypic records challenge the accuracy of genomic predictions for this trait.
Lanna Maryana Costa Pereira +4 more
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Did Eve Emerge From Evo's Rib? Gendered Complexities Over the Period of MAS Rule in Bolivia
ABSTRACT The MAS governments in Bolivia (2006–2019) sought to overturn neoliberalism through a decolonial and post‐neoliberal political project informed by indigenous movements, feminist thought, and social movement participation. However, feminist activists and scholars soon argued that MAS discourse and policy increasingly essentialised gender and ...
Kate Maclean
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La ley de lenguas en el Paraguay: ¿un paso decisivo en la oficialización de facto del guaraní?
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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A new combination in Strophopappus (Asteraceae, Vernonieae, Lepidaploinae)
Revisions of herbarium collections reveal a new combination in Strophopappus (Asteraceae, Vernonieae, Lepidaploinae). Strophopappus comprises nine species occurring in South America, eight of which are endemic to Brazil. Currently, Vernonia riedeliana is treated as a synonym of Strophopappus bicolor.
Danielle Remor +2 more
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Reduplication in Paraguayan Guaraní: a descriptive account [PDF]
This thesis presents a primarily descriptive account of the structural and meaning properties of verb and numeral reduplication in Paraguayan Guaraní, a Tupí-Guaraní language spoken by about four million people mainly in Paraguay.
Hamidzadeh, Khashayar
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Appreciating Guaraní Words: New Directions in Guaraní Studies
In this talk, Austin will discuss underappreciated sources in the historical scholarship that shine a light on the experiences of Guaraní in the colonial Río de la Plata and Paraguay. He will discuss insights from the socio-historical records that served
Latin American and Iberian Institute
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EL GRAFEMA ‘G̃’ EN EL ALFABETO GUARANÍ, SU PERMANENCIA O SU ELIMINACIÓN
Este trabajo de investigación se realizó con el propósito de colaborar con la toma de decisiones acerca del grafema <g̃> del guaraní, su permanencia o eliminación en el alfabeto guaraní.
Fleitas Lecoski, Dionisio
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The Case for Quantitative Frameworks in Assessing Racial and Ethnic Representation in ELT Materials
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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Phylogenetic classification supports a Northeastern Amazonian Proto-Tupí-Guaraní Homeland [PDF]
The question of where Proto-Tupí-Guaraní (PTG) was spoken has been a point of considerable debate. Both northeastern and southwestern Amazonian homelands having been proposed, with evidence from both archaeology and linguistic classification playing key ...
O’Hagan, Zachary +2 more
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