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A multidisciplinary overview on the Tupi‐speaking people expansion [PDF]
American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 186, Issue 1, January 2025.Expansion of Tupi linguistic subfamilies. Abstract The cultural and biological diversity of South American indigenous groups represent extremes of human variability, exhibiting one of the highest linguistic diversities alongside a remarkably low within‐population genetic variation and an extremely high inter‐population genetic differentiation.
Marcos Araújo Castro e Silva +1 more
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Art History, Volume 46, Issue 5, Page 946-977, November 2023., 2023 In seventeenth‐century Cartagena de Indias, a portcity in today's Colombia, enslaved Africans recently disembarked from the Middle Passage faced a Jesuit‐designed multisensory catechesis. The process involved listening to translations of the Christian doctrine delivered by African interpreter‐catechists enslaved by the Jesuits, often in conjunction ...
Larissa Brewer‐García +1 more
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 564-574, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Rich in raw materials, the state of Guerrero, Mexico, is one of the main enclaves of opium production, mineral extraction, and a focus for the multiplication of armed actors in Latin America, which, together with the overlapping of counterinsurgent violence in the past, post‐colonial violence and the militarization of the policies of the so ...
Inés Giménez Delgado
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Language classification, language contact and Andean prehistory: The North
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 15, Issue 5, May 2021., 2021 Abstract The northern half of the Andes—from Venezuela to Northern Peru—has seen dramatic losses of language diversity since the 16th century. Even so, the region's linguistic fabric is complex and multifaceted, and the impression of relatively low levels of diversity vis‐à‐vis Amazonia is to a perhaps considerable extent the result of different post ...
Matthias Urban
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Una perspectiva raciolingüística desde el Reino Unido
, 2023 Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 27, Issue 5, Page 478-482, November 2023.
Ian Cushing
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Miscommunication in the COVID‐19 Era
Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 39, Issue S1, Page 39-46, December 2020., 2020 This article discusses issues around the communication of preventive health messages related to COVID‐19 to indigenous language‐speaking communities in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. Official communication is primarily in Spanish, and the many translation initiatives that have arisen do not always succeed in getting the message across due to the lack of ...
Gerardo M. García +4 more
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Learning language regimes: Children's representations of minority language education
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 24, Issue 2, Page 165-184, April 2020., 2020 Abstract Minority language education initiatives often aim to resist dominant language regimes and to raise the social status of migrant or autochthonous minorities. We consider how participating children experience these alternative language regimes by analysing drawings made by children in two minority education settings—a Slovene‐German bilingual ...
Judith Purkarthofer, Haley De Korne
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Descolonizando la historia oral: una conversación
, 2021 History, Volume 106, Issue 370, Page E1-E17, March 2021.
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Mapping British Latinx Writing
Bulletin of Latin American Research, EarlyView.There are an estimated quarter of a million Latin Americans living in the UK, yet they remain outside the British national imaginary. This invisibility has historically extended to the literary scene and publishing industry, with only very few British‐based Latin American and Latinx writers gaining any exposure.
Karina Lickorish Quinn
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Decolonizing English language testing
TESOL Journal, Volume 15, Issue 4, December 2024.Abstract Testing practices and the construct of English both serve separately and interactionally to promote activities of modernity and coloniality. Tests categorize and rank learning and knowledge in discrete, static ways. The construct of the English language through standardization and other processes upholds linguistic purism ideologies.
Jamie L. Schissel
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