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Intimate Indigeneities Race, Sex, and History in the Small Spaces of Andean Life

open access: yes, 2012
Analyzing the nuances of identity formation in rural Andean culture, Andrew Canessa draws on two decades of ethnographic research in a remote indigenous community in Bolivia's ...
Canessa, Andrew
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Stone over stone, where was the man? Perception and meaning of the stone in the sacred geography in andean societies

open access: yesRuna, 2015
This article examines the semantic components that the stone have in Andean societies. Based on ethnohistorical, linguistic and ethnographic background, we discuss the perception of the functions and meanings that the stone had to indigenous groups ...
Luis Galdames Rosas, Alberto Díaz Araya
doaj  

Mountains, Kurakas and Mummies: Transformations in Indigenous Andean Sovereignty

open access: yesPoblación & 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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Indigenising Indigenous child welfare

open access: yes, 2007
This article discusses changes needed to current child welfare systems to make them more effective in Indigenous ...
Libesman, T
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Giiwe : An Indigenous-led Model for Inter-organizational Homelessness Prevention

open access: yes
Preventing people from experiencing homelessness is a complex task requiring the coordination of multiple actors. There are various frameworks for homelessness prevention; however, there is no published example of an Indigenous-led model.
Masuda, Jeff   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Child Malnutrition, Social Development and Health Services in the Andean Region [PDF]

open access: yes
This study analyzes social, ethnic and regional determinants of child malnutrition, as well as the effects of access to health services in the Andean Region, through a comparison between Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.
MONTALVO PEDRO   +2 more
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Paisajes del desarrollo: La ecología de las tecnologías andinas.

open access: yesAntípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, 2009
The abandonment of indigenous and traditional ways of relating to the landscape and making use of the environment are historically tied, since the epoch of conquest, to the imposition of development models that respond to foreign demands.
Alexander Herrera., Maurizio Ali.
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Ancient Ecuadorian genomes reveal millennia of genetic continuity on the Pacific Coast of South America. [PDF]

open access: yesPNAS Nexus
Lindo J   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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