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Abstract Past studies of prostitution have mislabelled Mexican women as prostitutes when it is not clear that they had engaged in transactional sex. Here, we examine the history of prostitution between 1750 and 1865, detailing both legal frameworks and judicial evidence to address the reasons for the inflation of prostitution's presence in Mexico ...
Nora E. Jaffary, Luis Londoño
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"No le quieren prestar el respeto y obediencia debida a causa de ser mujer". Cacicas y prácticas judiciales en pleitos de 'pueblos de indios'. Chile Central, fines del siglo XVIII [PDF]
El presente artículo tiene por objetivo relevar el rol de algunas mujeres en los ‘pueblos de indios’ de Chile Central a fines del siglo XVIII. Por medio de un estudio de casos, proponemos un análisis de las prácticas judiciales –o ‘cultura jurídica’– por
Cerón Sandoval, Jeniffer
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Cannibal Salvage Expenditure: The Subaltern Style of the Urban Peruvian Amazon
ABSTRACT This paper explores the political ecology of subaltern existence at the urban cutting edge of our apocalyptic present, in the case of Iquitos in the Peruvian Amazon. Through an ethnographically surrealist montage of multiple elements across the themes of accumulation, architecture, and art, cannibal salvage expenditure emerges as a subversive ...
Japhy Wilson
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Colonial Organization of Mine Labour in Charcas 1 (Present-Day Bolivia) and Its Consequences 2 (Sixteenth to the Seventeenth Centuries) [PDF]
This article analyses the changes in the organization of labour during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in colonial Charcas, present-day Bolivia, focusing on the role that different colonial authorities played in this process and its consequences.
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ABSTRACT Forage production in semi‐arid regions of Brazil is limited by water deficit. This study aimed to identify the most adapted and efficient production systems and define their agricultural calendars for the semi‐arid region of Brazil. Twenty‐nine production arrangements that included different cropping conditions, plant density, plant cycles ...
Antonio Gebson Pinheiro +15 more
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Effects of organized guarding on mortality from human–elephant conflict in northeast India
Abstract Human–elephant conflict (HEC) frequently results in human and elephant mortality, posing major social justice and conservation concerns across Asia and Africa. Although a variety of interventions have been introduced to mitigate HEC, rigorous evaluations of how they affect mortality are practically nonexistent.
Nitin Sekar +6 more
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Geographical and ethnological descriptions of the Indies in Spanish authors of the 16th century. Analysis of the writings of Pedro Mártir de Anglería and Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo on the following aspects: idea of a New World, critique and rejection to
Miguel Ángel Ladero Quesada
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Abstract Indigenous Peoples are gaining renewed attention within both policy and academia, as examples of “resilience” and of non‐humanist, non‐modern ways of relating to nature, which might, it is hoped, provide tools to withstand the socio‐ecological crises associated with “the Anthropocene”.
Penelope Anthias, Kiran Asher
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Funcionarios de dos mundos en un espacio liminal: los “indios amigos” en la frontera de Buenos Aires (1856-1866) [PDF]
El trabajo analiza la situación de los “indios amigos” en la frontera de Buenos Aires entre 1856 y 1866, período en el que el Estado argentino inicia un proceso de unificación política y consolidación institucional.
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Entre los siglos XVI y XVII los conquistadores españoles intentaron incorporar las provincias del Chocó a la Monarquía Hispánica. Se trataba de una franja de tierra que se extendía entre la cordillera de los Andes y el océano Pacífico y caracterizada ...
Juan David Montoya Guzmán
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