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Can Andean medicine coexist with biomedical healthcare? A comparison of two rural communities in Peru and Bolivia [PDF]
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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Ecological consequences of post-Columbian indigenous depopulation in the Andean–Amazonian corridor [PDF]
Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2018 European colonization of South America instigated a continental-scale depopulation of its indigenous peoples. The impact of depopulation on the tropical forests of South America varied across the continent. Furthermore, the role that indigenous peoples played in transforming the biodiverse tropical forests of the Andean-Amazonian corridor before AD ...
Nicholas J. D. Loughlin +3 more
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Dictionaries, Vocabularies, and Grammars of Andean Indigenous Languages [PDF]
, 2008 This essay presents linguistic materials which were produced in the colonial era in the Andes in the context of Christianization to assist priests learning the indigenous languages. Considering that descriptive linguistics in general and the description of languages other than Latin and Greek in particular had only just started to develop in Europe ...
Dedenbach-Salazar Saenz, Sabine
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Andean and Amazonian Material Culture and Performance Traditions as Sites of Indigenous Knowledges and Memory [PDF]
, 2017 Andean and Amazonian Material Culture and Performance Traditions as Sites of Indigenous Knowledges and ...
Wibbelsman, Michelle
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‘ … por decir Dios Trino y Uno, dijo Dios tres y uno son cuatro’: the Christian Trinity and the multiplicity of Andean Deities: indigenous beliefs and the instruction of the Christian doctrine in Quechua [PDF]
, 2016 In this paper I examine how Christian priests in the early colonial period in the Andes tried to communicate the Christian concept of the Trinity to the indigenous population, mainly through textual but also through visual means.
Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz +1 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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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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Indigenous Cosmogony and Andean Architecture in El Alto, Bolivia [PDF]
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2020 AbstractThis essay applies Bourdieu's analysis of the formation of the ‘scholastic habitus’ in medieval times—elaborated in his 1967 afterword to his French translation of Erwin Panofsky's Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism—to the correspondence between indigenous mental categories and architectural innovation in the Bolivian ‘rebel city’ of El Alto.
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Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, 2019 The indigenous people of the Andean countries have been linked for more than three hundred years to the hacienda regime, distinguished by ethnic dominance.
Luis Alberto Castro Tuaza
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