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Una descendiente de Atahualpa canta al mundo: Yma Sumac y los incas
Ima Sumac (1922-2008) fut sans aucun doute l’une des chanteuses péruviennes les plus « populaires » et les plus connues, tant au niveau national qu’international.
Carmen Salazar-Soler
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Exploring Clear‐Sky Longwave Radiative Closure in the Arctic: A Downwelling Case Study
A clear‐sky infrared spectrum extending into the far‐infrared is compared to radiative transfer simulations. The radiosonde‐driven simulation generates the closest agreement to the radiance observations. The HATPRO‐driven simulation matches within its uncertainty across the entire range; however, it has a larger uncertainty envelope than the other ...
Sophie Mosselmans +11 more
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What's new? Obesity has been linked to the risk of non‐Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), but the evidence remains inconclusive. Here, the authors investigate the possibility of shared genetic risk factors between obesity and four common NHL types. Drawing on data from 8 genome‐wide association studies, they found that a higher genetically determined BMI was ...
Amy Moore +74 more
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The Battle of Cajamarca: The civilizational cost of military (mis)education [PDF]
This paper analyses the Battle of Cajamarca as a paradigmatic example of the civilizational cost of military miseducation. Exploring the context, course, and consequences of the battle between the Spanish conquistadors led by Pizarro and the Inca ...
Stanar Dragan
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Women, Men, and the Legal Languages of Mining in the Colonial Andes [PDF]
Histories of colonial Latin American mining have cemented the image of a scientifically backward society whose pursuit of easy wealth sacrificed the lives of indigenous and African miners in places like Potosí. By examining a mid seventeenth-century mine
Allison Margaret Bigelow
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ABSTRACT The khipu knotted string records in the ancient Andes were accounting systems, but they did not indicate any concepts of commensurability or exchange value. They were not incipient money; instead, monetized commerce appears to have predated the economic organization of the Inca society. The article begins by tracing the emergence of coinage in
Alf Hornborg
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Heroic Creation and the Socialist City: The Making of Villa El Salvador
Abstract J.C. Mariátegui believed Indo‐American socialism would be neither calque nor copy, but heroic creation. This article explores an attempt at heroic creation in 1970s Peru: the Self‐Managed Urban Commune of Villa El Salvador (Villa). Putting Marxism in conversation with decolonial theory, I argue Villa shows universality and particularity can be
Rafael Shimabukuro
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On the human capital of Inca Indios before and after the Spanish conquest: Was there a "pre-colonial legacy"? [PDF]
Not only the colonial period, but also the pre-colonial times might have influenced later development patterns. In this study we assess a potential pre-colonial legacy hypothesis for the case of the Andean region.
Baten, Joerg, Juif, Dácil-Tania
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A troubled inheritance: Overcoming the temporality problem in cases of historical injustice
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Renaud‐Philippe Garner, Marion Godman
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Multimodal assessment during exercise distinguishes clinically relevant right ventricular (RV) adaptation patterns (homeometric and heterometric adaptation) in pulmonary hypertension. Disease controls are patients with invasive exclusion of pulmonary hypertension.
Bruno R. Thal +10 more
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