Mortality from COVID-19 in Amazonian and Andean original indigenous populations of Peru
Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2023 Objective: To compare the mortality rates from COVID-19 among indigenous populations of the Amazon and Andean regions of Peru during the years 2020, 2021 and 2022.
Percy Herrera-Añazco +2 more
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Indigenizing fungal biotechnology for planetary health: an opinion paper. [PDF]
Fungal Biol BiotechnolNew fungal biotechnologies are advancing applied and conservation mycology to support global regenerative outcomes for natural and human systems.
Perez R +5 more
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Assessment of Genetic Diversity in Quinoa Landraces Cultivated in the Ecuadorian Highlands Since the Early 1980s. [PDF]
Plants (Basel)Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) landraces have been cultivated ancestrally in the Andean highlands of Ecuador, where they have had great social and nutritional importance for the native population. Currently, there is scarce information on its genetic
Delgado H, Martín JP.
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Indigenous clothing changes in the Andean highlands under Spanish colonialism [PDF]
Estudios Atacameños, 2019 This article outlines a material culture approach that combines theoretical perspectives on exchange in value and the gendered body politic. This theoretical framework is applied to three elements of costume changes in the Spanish Colonial period (ca ...
Christine Beaule
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Health systems collaboration can strengthen climate change resilience: Insights from Indigenous knowledges in the Latin American region. [PDF]
PLOS Glob Public HealthStrengthening the resilience of health systems is a recognised pathway for responding to the impacts of climate change. However, current approaches often rely on biomedical models that exclude Indigenous Peoples and their knowledges.
Zavaleta-Cortijo C.
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Rapid adaptive increase of amylase gene copy number in Indigenous Andeans
Nature CommunicationsThe salivary amylase gene AMY1 exhibits remarkable copy number variation linked to dietary shifts in human evolution. While global studies highlight its structural complexity and association with starch-rich diets, localized selection patterns remain ...
Kendra Scheer +16 more
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La plurinationalité en Bolivie : vers une nouvelle conception de l’indianité ?
Cahiers des Amériques Latines, 2021 This article proposes to analyse the place of Andean indigenous peoples in one of the policies of the Plurinational State: indigenous native peasant justice.
Élise Gadea
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Religions, 2021 In the years directly following the Second Vatican Council under the guidance of its second bishop Mons. Enrique Pelach i Feliu, the Andean diocese of Abancay—founded in 1959 in one of the most rural and most indigenous areas of Peru—experienced the ...
Christine Lee
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Mountains, Kurakas and Mummies: Transformations in Indigenous Andean Sovereignty
Población & Sociedad, 2018 This essay argues that Andean mountains have not always embodied indigenous sovereignty as they do today. The lordly titles that mountains now bear were, until the second half of the colonial period, held by ancestral mummies and living indigenous ...
Peter Gose
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A Kaleidoscopic Reflection on Territory and Property
Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, 2023 The multiple meanings of Indigenous territory and property are explored here by means of a multidisciplinary lens. An ethnological journey through different geographies and times is undertaken to explain some property formation processes and illuminate ...
Patricia Urteaga Crovetto
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