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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.
Vicente Aleixandre Benites Zapata +2 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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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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Les femmes dans la justice indigène en Bolivie
Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2015 The alarming statistics on violence against women in Bolivia derive both from a strong gender hierarchy and the State’s indifference to the issue. Such institutional passivity leaves the door open to indigenous justice in conflicts resolution.
Elise Gadea
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Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2012 Background It is commonly assumed that indigenous medical systems remain strong in developing countries because biomedicine is physically inaccessible or financially not affordable. This paper compares the health-seeking behavior of households from rural
Mathez-Stiefel Sarah-Lan +2 more
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Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2018 During the 1950s and 1960s, various Latin American countries implemented a series of development projects, which aimed at the modernization, and integration of indigenous peoples into their respective national communities.
Martin Breuer
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Contested Territories: Water Rights and the Struggles over Indigenous Livelihoods
International Indigenous Policy Journal, 2012 This paper examines the threats to Indigenous water rights and territories in the Andean countries. It analyzes how water and water rights are embedded in Indigenous territories, and how powerful actors and intervention projects tend to undermine local ...
Rutgerd Boelens +5 more
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Frontiers in Medicine, 2023 BackgroundNeglected indigenous groups and underserved rural populations in Latin America are highly vulnerable to COVID-19 due to poor health infrastructure and limited access to SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis.
Diana Morales-Jadán +40 more
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Homosexualidad rural en los Andes: notas desde los Yungas de La Paz, Bolivia
Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2016 The scarce literature on homosexuality in Andean countries almost exclusively treats urban contexts. With reference to rural settings, considered “indigenous” by definition, many political activists with Indianist postures insist that homosexuality does ...
Alison Spedding, Helan Vichevich
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