La Espiritualidad: Transmitting Peruvian Culturo‐Spiritual Elements into Occidental Systemic Spaces
ABSTRACT This paper is a decolonising, Indigenous qualitative inquiry that integrates elements of critical autoethnography, narrative methods and conceptual analysis to explore how Peruvian Andean cosmology can inform contemporary systems thinking and family therapy practice.
Deisy Amorin‐Woods
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Mountains, Kurakas and Mummies: Transformations in Indigenous Andean Sovereignty
This essay argues that Andean mountains have not always embodied indigenous sovereignty as they do today. The lordly titles that mountains nowbear were, until the second half of the colonial period, held by ancestralmummies and living indigenous ...
Gose, Peter
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Remembering the auca:Violence and Generational Memory in Amazonian Ecuador
In Amazonian Ecuador and beyond, indigenous Waorani people have received considerable attention for their history of revenge killings during much of the twentieth century.
High, Casey; id_orcid, Casey High
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Interactive Technologies and Indigenous Art: Exploring the Use of Immersive Resources to Increase Audience Engagement with Ceramic Pieces in the Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Collection at The Ohio State University [PDF]
Women of the Canelos Quichua community in Amazonian Ecuador learn ceramic traditions from other master potters and through continuous practice. They use multi-sensory interactions to input knowledge into their piece and specifically, use art to connect ...
D'Souza, Brandon
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Dancing in the Fields:Imagined Landscapes and Virtual Locality in Indigenous Andean Music Videos [PDF]
The move from analogue audio cassette to digital VCD (Video Compact Disc) in around 2003, as a primary format for recorded music, opened up a new era for music production and consumption in the Bolivian Andes.
Stobart, Henry
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The Norm Prohibiting the Chewing of Coca Leaf: From the International System to the Colombian State
This article deals with the process of adopting international drug treaties in conformity with the Colombian legal system. International law establishes that substances that are considered illicit, including coca leaf, have legal uses exclusively for ...
Julián Andrés Fernández López
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Pastoral Visitations: Spaces of Negotiation in Andean Indigenous Parishes
In the Andes, the pastoral visitation of Indian parishes usually evokes the idea of a strongly oppositional relationship between the Church and local society. This vision, lacking in nuance, has been widely disseminated both within the academy and outside it.
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Perceptions of Cancer Risks Among Indigenous Women in Bolivia: A Qualitative Study
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Cancer is responsible for nearly 20% of all deaths in Bolivia. This study explored sociocultural factors, risk perceptions, and healthcare‐seeking behaviors associated with cancer among Aymara women in a high‐altitude community in rural Bolivia.
Eda G. Christensen +6 more
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Abstract During their voyage to the Americas (1799–1804), Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland described and collected American flora, fauna, minerals and other objects. After returning to Europe, they published several works, including Monographie des Melastomacées, initiated by Bonpland to classify this complex botanical family.
Marina Ramos de Azevedo +1 more
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Since the conquest of America, the Spanish have used the movement of indigenous peoples to support the logistics of their expeditions. That is how many Andean Indians came to Chile.
Jaime Valenzuela Márquez
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