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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"Now he walks and walks, as if he didn't have a home where he could eat": food, healing, and hunger in Quechua narratives of madness [PDF]
, 2013 In the Quechua-speaking peasant communities of southern Peru, mental disorder is understood less as individualized pathology and more as a disturbance in family and social relationships. For many Andeans, food and feeding are ontologically fundamental to
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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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Human Processing of Rodents in Patagonia: The Relevance of Historical and Ethnographical Data for Archaeological Interpretations [PDF]
, 2019 The consumption of small mammals was a widespread practice between indigenous societies worldwide. Modern taphonomic studies carried out upon bone assemblages from archaeological sites in northern Patagonia (Argentina) demonstrate thatCaviomorph rodents ...
Andrade, Analia
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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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Teaching in the Key of Life: Our Latin Americanist Music Faculty [PDF]
, 2008 Latin American ...
LLILAS Staff
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Local extinctions in the small mammal's assemblages between late Holocene and historical times in Talagapa mountains (Patagonia, Argentina): The role of land use changes [PDF]
, 2016 The aim of this work was to evaluate possible changes in the small mammal composition in the Patagonian arid Extra-Andean steppes between the late Holocene and historical times.
Andrade, Analia, Monjeau, Jorge Adrian
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La fiesta del Inti Raymi en la construcción del Estado plurinacional en el Ecuador
Les Cahiers ALHIM, 2017 This article analyzes the festival of Inti Raymi, promoted in recent years by various government intitutions in Ecuador. With an ethnographic approach to indigenous communities and a review of academic discourse surrounding plurinationality, it ...
Luis Alberto Tuaza
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International law and resource extraction : the reconstruction of indigenous identity in Cajamarca, Peru [PDF]
, 2017 Why has there been a sudden upsurge in the politicization of indigenous identities in Latin America? Drawing upon constructivist assumptions of ethnic identity, I find that ILO 169 and the rights contained in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights ...
Egerstrom, Anne Marie
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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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