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Comments on “Visual Anthropology in Latin America”

, 2012
Este artículo comenta el dossier de la edición 42 de Íconos, dedicado a la “Antropología visual en Latinoamérica”. En el texto se reseñan los ensayos realizados por cada uno de los colaboradores en este dossier; al mismo tiempo se plantea una serie de ...
León, Christian
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The Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) and New Agrarian Questions in Brazil

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Landless Rural Workers Movement of Brazil (MST) primarily organized occupations of large‐scale farms, forcing the redistribution of land for creation of agrarian reform settlements. In the past 20 years, however, land occupations and the establishment of new agrarian reform settlements have consistently declined, while the MST shifted ...
Estevan Coca, Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira
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Public health and cancer in Latin America: the region does not lack evidence; it lacks effective state capacity, enforceable laws, sustained prevention, and early diagnosis. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Duche-Pérez AB, Camargo-Riega AV, Paredes-Velazco R.   +2 more
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Palaces for a New Spain Nobility: Between Creole Identity and Academicism

Sociology Lens, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 75-86, March 2025.
ABSTRACT Mexico City and Havana had a significant number of noble palaces during the eighteenth century. Until now, the dearth of historical documentation on their construction has hampered any approximation, requiring other methodologies. Here, it is intended to establish how a new visual code was defined, consistent both with their local style and ...
Pedro Luengo
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Reparations for Indigenous Peoples in the USA and Canada. [PDF]

PLOS Glob Public Health
Gone JP.
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“Why?”: C. Wright Mills on the Spirit of the Classical Sociological Tradition and Positivist Versus Critical Sociology

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite their very diverse interests, the classical sociological thinkers were concerned with analyzing the dramatic social transformations in the wake of colonialism, slavery, and modern industrial capitalism as well as the multiple revolutions, particularly in relation to the new forms of social inequalities and power disparities.
Zaheer Baber
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Health systems collaboration can strengthen climate change resilience: Insights from Indigenous knowledges in the Latin American region. [PDF]

PLOS Glob Public Health
Zavaleta-Cortijo C.
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Food Insecurity and Vulnerability in Latin America and the Caribbean

This paper examines how Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) nations have proceeded in addressing the issues of food insecurity and vulnerability in response to the 1996 Rome Declaration on World Food Security.
Corral, Leonardo, Winters, Paul C., Gordillo, Gustavo   +2 more
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War as a Phenomenon of Inquiry in Management Studies

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract We argue that war as a phenomenon deserves more focused attention in management. First, we highlight why war is an important and relevant area of inquiry for management scholars. We then integrate scattered conversations on war in management studies into a framework structured around three building blocks – (a) the nature of war from an ...
Fabrice Lumineau, Arne Keller
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The Shadow Presence of U.S. Models of Parental Involvement in Postcolonial Multilingual Language and Literacy Reforms in Western Highland Mayan Rural School Districts in Guatemala

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study offers a critique of imperialist relations implicit in U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) pedagogical texts and capacity‐building resources designed to support decolonial Indigenous Mayan language and literacy instruction.
Jennifer F. Reynolds
wiley   +1 more source