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The Cinderella tree, Quillaja saponaria – A soap story

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 439-451, March 2026.
Our current understanding of plants has been shaped by the entwining of different cultures. The Chilean soapbark tree, traditionally valued as a source of natural soap, was shown by serendipitous research in France in the 1900s to produce compounds that can boost the immune response to vaccines.
Anne Osbourn
wiley   +1 more source

ETHNONURSING: CULTURAL CARE IN A MAPUCHE COMMUNITY IN PUERTO AGUIRRE, AYSÉN, CHILE [PDF]

open access: yesTexto & Contexto - Enfermagem, 2020
ABSTRACT Objectives: to understand the beliefs, expressions, and practices of generic care used by the Mapuche community in Puerto Aguirre and acknowledge the professional care offered to promote health. Method: a qualitative research based on ethnonursing carried out during seven trips to Puerto Aguirre between July 2018 and January 2019. A total of
Marisa Angélica Mansilla Ojeda   +2 more
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Along the Silenced Footsteps of Latin American Pastoralists: From Mexico to Argentina, a Journey Through Pastoral Systems in Latin America

open access: yesThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Pastoralism worldwide faces a complex landscape of increased pressures and exclusion. Beyond ecological and economic challenges, pastoralists suffer eroding cultural identity, limited generational renewal, and political marginalization. Yet pastoral livelihoods are increasingly recognized as stewards of sustainable futures and amongst the best
Greta Semplici, Pablo Manzano
wiley   +1 more source

El miedo, el no y el secreto son palabras occidentales, desconocidas en nuestro idioma

open access: yesStudi sulla Formazione, 2014
The interview to María Quiñelén, educator and medicine woman, fits into the work for the enhancement of the traditional knowledge by the UNESCO Chair at the University of Florence.
Paolo Orefice
doaj   +1 more source

Coronavirus y wigka küxan: la percepción mapuche de la pandemia

open access: yesNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2021
The tendency to impose measures designed from rich contexts to contain this type of pandemics ignores that a large part of the vulnerability of Amerindian peoples derives from the precarious economic, social and political conditions they have at their ...
Jesús Antona Bustos
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Hydrocartography in Times of Menacing Waters: Xokleng Mapping and the Politics of Floods in Southern Brazil

open access: yesGeo: Geography and Environment, Volume 13, Issue 1, January‐June 2026.
Short Abstract Following hydrofeminist and political ecology debates, this paper argues for a hydrocartographic approach to the cartographic examination of social water relations that affects both the way we understand cartography and the mapping of waters.
Paul Schweizer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conceptos de enfermedad y sanación en la cosmovisión mapuche e impacto de la cultura occidental CONCEPTS OF SICKNESS AND HEALING IN THE MAPUCHE COSMOLOGY AND THE IMPACT OF OCCIDENTAL CULTURE

open access: yesCiencia y Enfermería, 2004
En este artículo se exponen aspectos centrales de la cosmovisión mapuche relacionados con la enfermedad y la sanación. Se abordan los conceptos de equilibrio, desequilibrio, energía negativa y energía positiva, indicando las palabras empleadas en el ...
ALEJANDRO DÍAZ MUJICA   +3 more
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Los movimientos de protesta del Pueblo Mapuche en Chile, 2000-2012: Balance y perspectivas

open access: yesIberoamericana: Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2014
Aunque el Pueblo Mapuche de Chile es numéricamente reducido, sus reivindicaciones históricas y luchas actuales tienen el mismo contenido que las de otros pueblos originarios de América Latina con mayor población.
Rita Cancino
doaj   +1 more source

Indigenous Research: The Path towards Mapuchization

open access: yesGenealogy, 2023
This article explores the process of decolonizing and indigenizing research from my perspective as a Mapuche woman. During this process, I examine how to approach and analyze colonial and patriarchal archives through an indigenous lens, leading me to ...
María Gloria Cayulef
doaj   +1 more source

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