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Indigenous Community, Youth, and Educational Research in the Andean World

2020
In recent decades, research methodologies rooted in local Indigenous communities have emerged as epistemic acts of resistance to the colonial and development projects and as innovative assertions of grounding in and through local knowledge. Beyond responses to imperialism and neoliberalism, Indigenous research methodologies are rooted in community ...
Huaman, Elizabeth Sumida, Valdiviezo, Laura A.   +1 more
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Pro‐Indigenous Reforms in Bolivia: Is there an Andean Way to Escape Poverty?

Development and Change, 2006
ABSTRACTNowadays, the old assumption that indigenous peoples should give up their cultural practices and identities in order to assimilate and ‘progress’, has been replaced by a more flexible and dynamic perception of indigeneity. This article — based on fieldwork carried out in the southern part of the Bolivian Andes between 1995 and 2004 — offers a ...
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NEW INDIGENOUS ELITE AND THE FORMATION OF ETHNONATIONALISM: THE CASE OF THE ANDEAN COUNTRIES

Studia Iuridica, 2023
One of the core elements of the contemporary Latin American indigenous activism is postcolonial ethnonationalism, oriented towards ethnic, cultural, social, and civic emancipation. It has been developed to facilitate the struggle for the native rights, the defence of the ethnic territory, to maintain identity and protect own heritage. The inventors and
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Earth-beings: Andean indigenous religion, but not only

2018
This chapter discusses the processes of translation that created the field of what is considered “indigenous Andean religion,” thus singularizing practices that make more than one world. The chapter focuses mainly on what are popularly known as “sacred mountains.” I argue that they are not only such, i.e.
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Cultural Identity and Indigenous Water Rights in the Andean Highlands

2010
In the Andes, irrigation water is an important component of production, a source of both conflict and cooperation, and a key element of cultural identity. These different dimensions of water must be viewed together. This chapter argues that indigenous Andean culture and cultural identity continue to be key elements of local social relationships in ...
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The indigenous concept of land in Andean constitutionalism

2019
L'autore analizza i concetti di terra, territorio e proprietà in alcune Costituzioni latino-americane, evidenziando l'influenza delle cosmo-visioni indigene rispetto alla disciplina costituzionale di tali ...
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The People Are King: The Making of an Indigenous Andean Politics

Hispanic American Historical Review, 2021
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The Culture of the Indigenous People of the Colombian Massif, a Culture of the Andean Framework

1994
Las alturas superiores a los 2.000 m. en el Macizo colombiano, se encuentran en su mayor parte pobladas por personas que se auto identifican como indígenas. En las faldas septentrionales del volcán Puracé y en el valle de Coconuco tiene asiento el grupo étnico que tanto por la gente foránea como por autodeterminación, se conoce como los Coconucos ...
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Ethnic Identity and Well-Being of Andean Indigenous People: The Effect of Individualistic and Collectivist Value Orientations

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
Andres Gutiérrez-Carmona, Alfonso Urzúa, Karina Rdz-Navarro   +2 more
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The role of social institutions in indigenous Andean Pastoralists’ adaptation to climate-related water hazards

Climate and Development, 2021
Julio C Postigo
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