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The Fourth Lifeway: Recognizing the Legacy of Bodily Difference and Disability within the Inka Empire

Disability Studies Quarterly, 2022
No abstract available.
Ryan Scott Hechler
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Forensic investigations of disasters: Past achievements and new directions

Jàmbá, 2023
In the 2020s, understanding disaster risk requires a strong and clear recognition of values and goals that influence the use of political and economic power and social authority to guide growth and development.
Irasema Alcántara-Ayala, Ian Burton, Allan Lavell, Anthony Oliver-Smith, Alonso Brenes, Thea Dickinson   +5 more
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Communication, Computation, and Governance: A Multiscalar Vantage on the Prehispanic Mesoamerican World

Journal of Social Computing, 2022
Writing has often been put forth as one indicator of civilization. This correspondence dovetails with the even broader cross-species expectation that the degrees of social complexity and levels of computational communication should closely correlate ...
Gary M. Feinman, David M. Carballo
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UAV LiDAR Survey for Archaeological Documentation in Chiapas, Mexico

Remote Sensing, 2021
Airborne laser scanning has proven useful for rapid and extensive documentation of historic cultural landscapes after years of applications mapping natural landscapes and the built environment.
Whittaker Schroder, Timothy Murtha, Charles Golden, Andrew K. Scherer, Eben N. Broadbent, Angélica M. Almeyda Zambrano, Kelsey Herndon, Robert Griffin   +7 more
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Becoming West Indian: Culture, Self, and Nation in St. Vincent, by Virginia Heyer Young. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993

Journal of Political Ecology, 1995
Becoming West Indian: Culture, Self, and Nation in St. Vincent, by Virginia Heyer Young. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993, 229 pp. Reviewed byHelen I.
Helen I. Safa
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Reconnecting art and science for sustainability: learning from indigenous knowledge through participatory action-research in the Amazon

Ecology and Society, 2017
Sustainability science focuses on generating and applying knowledge to environmentally sound human development around the world. It requires working toward greater integration of different types of knowledge, ways of knowing, and between academy and ...
Simone Athayde, Jose Silva-Lugo, Marianne Schmink, Aturi Kaiabi, Michael Heckenberger   +4 more
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Airborne Lidar Survey, Density-Based Clustering, and Ancient Maya Settlement in the Upper Usumacinta River Region of Mexico and Guatemala

Remote Sensing, 2021
We present results from the archaeological analysis of 331 km2 of high-resolution airborne lidar data collected in the Upper Usumacinta River basin of Mexico and Guatemala.
Charles Golden, Andrew K. Scherer, Whittaker Schroder, Timothy Murtha, Shanti Morell-Hart, Juan Carlos Fernandez Diaz, Socorro del Pilar Jiménez Álvarez, Omar Alcover Firpi, Mark Agostini, Alexandra Bazarsky, Morgan Clark, G. Van Kollias, Mallory Matsumoto, Alejandra Roche Recinos, Joshua Schnell, Bethany Whitlock   +15 more
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Tupians and Turanians: hypotheses on the origins of man and civilization in the Americas in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, 2002
This article examines nineteenth and early twentieth-century theories on the origins of man and civilization in the Americas. Following an analysis of these theories within the European and North American contexts, the discussion focuses on Latin ...
Maria Helena P. T. Machado
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New records of fishtail projectile points from Brazil and its implications for its peopling

Journal of Lithic Studies, 2015
:  Fishtail or Fell projectile points constitute a specific design associated with early hunter-gatherers at the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary in many parts of South America, especially along the Pacific Coast, Patagonia, and the Argentine-Uruguayan ...
Daniel Loponte, Mercedes Okumura, Mirian Carbonera   +2 more
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Concepts movement in Anthropolgy

Revista de Antropologia, 1993
Latin-American peripheral anthropology (that which is practiced outside of England, France and the United States) works with a singular epistemic subject. Toe Other which it studies is not distant and transoceanic; it is internai and nearby.
Roberto Cardoso de Oliveira
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