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“Ethnic Revival” in Globalizing World: The Example of Indigenous Political Movements in Latin America

Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2019
The article offers an inquiry into the problem of “ethnic revival” in politics against the background of the accelerated globalization processes through the example of the indigenous movements in Latin America.
S. M. Kretov
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«In the raging time of the small pox». Il vaiolo e la documentazione dell’alterità americana tra fine Settecento e primo Ottocento

Diciottesimo Secolo, 2021
This research focuses on the perception of the effects of smallpox on the demographic decline of the native North American populations by some English-speaking writers in the eighteenth century.
Giulia Iannuzzi
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Violación, mujeres amerindias y justicia nacional

Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2015
From the 1980s and as a part of the general movement of indigenous peoples’ claims, a process of recognition of Native Americans’ specific rights has affected the countries of Latin America.
Odina Sturzenegger-Benoist
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The Story of Elaeagia Resin (Mopa-Mopa), So Far

Heritage, 2023
The unusual resin from some species of Elaeagia, a genus now found in certain parts of Central America and South America, was probably first utilized by native peoples in Colombia more than a thousand years ago.
Richard Newman, Emily Kaplan, Maria Cecilia Álvarez-White   +2 more
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North American Native Museum

Babylonia, 2023
The North American Native Museum offers an extensive collection of artefacts from various Indigenous Peoples of North America. Both younger children’s and adults’ curiosity will be piqued by the displays, the stuffed bison (which was once at the Zurich ...
Laura Buechel
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Hepatitis C Virus in American Indian/Alaskan Native and Aboriginal Peoples of North America

Viruses, 2012
Liver diseases, such as hepatitis C virus (HCV), are “broken spirit” diseases. The prevalence of HCV infection for American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) in the United States and Canadian Aboriginals varies; nonetheless, incidence ...
Julia Uhanova, Julia D. Rempel
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Indian Boarding School Gothic in Older than America and The Only Good Indian

American Studies in Scandinavia, 2015
This article examines the appropriation and redirection of the Gothic in two contemporary, Native-centered feature films that concern a history that can be said to haunt many Native North American communities today: the history of Indian boarding schools.
Elizabeth Kella
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The Dilemmas of Silence: Evidence, Indigenous Traditional Knowledge and Secrecy in Four Cases Involving Indigenous Peoples in Cultural and Territorial Isolation

Andares: Revista de Derechos Humanos y de la Naturaleza, 2023
Within many Indigenous cultures, traditional and spiritual knowledge is considered secret. It requires initiation and is safeguarded by different groups or levels of religious authority within a community.
Nina Valerie Kolowratnik
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“There is a Beast They Call Aroughcun”: Raccoons and Colonialism in Early America

European Journal of American Studies
The commodification of animals as pelt was foundational to the economic success of the colonial project(s) in North America. At the same time, it signified a point of convergence and contention between English and French settlers and Native peoples of ...
Phillip Grider
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Creature della fine del mondo. Il popolo Yámana/Yagán

Medea, 2018
Con la scoperta da parte di James Cook di numerosi branchi di mammiferi marini nelle acque intorno a Capo Horn e la successiva esplorazione del Canale Beagle ad opera di Robert Fitzroy, la Terra del fuoco diviene meta di balenieri, missionari, allevatori,
Giancarlo Nonnoi
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