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Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2017 This article questions the key role of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR) in the return of the "indigenous" category, again in use in the national public arena of the 21st century.
Valérie Robin Azevedo +1 more
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Balancing bossism: State expansion in the face of elite capture
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Central states have often relied on local elites to implement policies in peripheral areas. These strategies may allow otherwise weak states to impose their directives, but they can also be inefficient, particularly when a single elite commands total control over local politics (monopolist capture).
Anna F. Callis, Christopher L. Carter
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, 2021 The sexual exploitation of indigenous Andean women in Peru has been researched extensively over the past several decades. Peru received heightened international attention when the so-called “poverty alleviation” programs in the 1990s revealed that ...
Garner, Carolyn
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Recuperar la memoria histórica y las matemáticas andinas
Revista Latinoamericana de Etnomatemática, 2015 In this work the authors seek to recover the historical memory of a forgotten mathematics—those that structured the Andes before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century.
Molly Tun, Miguel Angel Díaz Sotelo
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Indigenous movements and their successes: representation and legal recognition in the Andes
América Latina Hoy, 2010 During the last decade, indigenous movements in the Andean region have made impressive gains in political representation, notwithstanding the unfavorable context in which they operate.
Donna Lee VAN COTT
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American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The evolutionary study of human dispersal is a key topic in biological anthropology. However, recent research has revealed inconsistencies between molecular and anatomical data across different timescales and geographic regions. Despite increased interdisciplinary dialogue, these discordances are rarely analyzed in depth or interpreted for ...
Lumila Paula Menéndez, Sophie Veigl
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Extractivist Fractures in the Atacama Desert: An Oasis of Contradictions
Revue de Géographie AlpineThis article examines the socioecological ‘fractures’ emerging from lithium extraction in the Atacama Salt Flat, a massive, high-altitude saline formation on the Chilean Andean Mountain Range, and one of the world’s richest lithium reserves ...
Chiara Braucher +1 more
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Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Ecuador's 2008 Constitution advanced an ambitious substantive economic vision through Buen Vivir (Good Living), recognizing a plural economy which encompasses private, public and solidarity economy (SE) sectors. This paper aims to analyze public procurement programs in Ecuador, one of the flagship Buen Vivir policies for SE promotion.
Maria‐José Ruiz‐Rivera +1 more
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Historia (Santiago), 2001 Through the study of the work of Felipe Wuaman Poma and the through observation of the prints in it included, we intend to achieve an exhaustive comprehension of the thinking patterns, principles and values of the indigenous peoples of the Andean world ...
CARLOS GONZÁLEZ VARGAS +2 more
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Environmental justice in education for climate action: Case studies from Perú and Uganda
Children &Society, EarlyView.Abstract This paper draws on participatory research with secondary school learners in Perú and Uganda that shows how environmental and social (in) justices are interwoven and embedded in young people's experiences of the natural world. These experiences contrast with learners' accounts of environmental education in secondary schooling, in which the ...
Rachel Wilder +3 more
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