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Indian South Africans as a middleman minority: Historical and contemporary perspectives
Contree, 2022 Beginning in the 1940s, a literature on middleman minorities emerged to demystify the intermediary economic niche that Jews had occupied in medieval Europe. They were viewed as ethnic entrepreneurs occupying the economic status gap.
Vernon D. Johnson
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Arrival of Paleo-Indians to the Southern Cone of South America: New Clues from Mitogenomes [PDF]
, 2012 With analyses of entire mitogenomes, studies of Native American mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation have entered the final phase of phylogenetic refinement: the dissection of the founding haplogroups into clades that arose in America during and after ...
Achilli, Alessandro +14 more
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AIMS Public Health, 2016 Female breast, colorectal, and cervical cancer are three common cancers among people in the United States. Both their incidence and mortality rates can be dramatically reduced if effective prevention and intervention programs are developed and ...
Yan Lin, Xi Gong, Richard Mousseau
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Latin American Indians through Dialogue and Speech Acts in the Travel of Alexander von Humboldt
Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal, 2019 When Humboldt traveled through Latin America, many indigenous languages were still spoken despite three centuries of European colonialism. While Alexander von Humboldt explores geography and analyzes the Native South American languages, he also takes ...
Adrián Herrera
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Spirits of the Air: Birds and American Indians in the South
Ethnobiology Letters, 2010 Review of Spirits of the Air: Birds and American Indians in the South. Shepard Krech III. 2009. University of Georgia Press, Athens. Pp. 245, copiously illustrated. $44.95 (hardbound). ISBN-13 978-0-8203-2815-7.
E. N. Anderson
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Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2007 A seroprevalence study to detect total antibodies against Hepatitis A Virus was done with 220 samples from 589 Native Indians from Xingu National Park, Brazil, in five Kaiabi and Kuikuro villages, the most populous ethnic groups.
Manuel Mindlin Lafer +2 more
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Ethnic differences in adiposity and diabetes risk – insights from genetic studies [PDF]
, 2020 Type 2 diabetes is more common in non-Europeans and starts at a younger age and at lower BMI cut-offs. This review discusses the insights from genetic studies about pathophysiological mechanisms which determine risk of disease with a focus on the role of
Bell, J.D. +7 more
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Diabetic retinopathy among Brazilian Xavante Indians
Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome, 2018 Background To describe the frequency of diabetic retinopathy (DR) and its associated variables in Brazilian Xavante Indians. Methods A population-based survey carried out in two Xavante Reservations between 2008 and 2012, included 948 Indians aged 20 ...
Carlos Gustavo M. G. Lima +7 more
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Obesity Facts, 2015 Objective: To estimate the prevalence of obesity and overweight and associated factors in indigenous people of the Jaguapiru village in Central Brazil. Methods: We conducted a population-based cross-sectional study between January 2009 and July 2011 in ...
Geraldo F. Oliveira +5 more
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Caries experience in children under 5 years old in the Xingu indigenous park in Brazil
Brazilian Journal of Oral Sciences, 2021 Aim: The present study sought to investigate dental caries experience and its association with sociodemographic, postnatal and breastfeeding variables in children in the agerange from 6 to 71 months of age, in the Xingu Indigenous Park, Mato Grosso ...
Alana Cristina Guisilini +7 more
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