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HIV, syphilis, and viral hepatitis among Latin American indigenous peoples and Afro-descendants: a systematic review.

Rev Panam Salud Publica, 2019
Russell NK, Nazar K, Del Pino S, Alonso Gonzalez M, Díaz Bermúdez XP, Ravasi G.   +5 more
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The Sonoda-Tajima Cell Collection: a human genetics research resource with emphasis on South American indigenous populations. [PDF]

Genome Biol Evol, 2011
Danjoh I, Saijo K, Hiroyama T, Nakamura Y.   +3 more
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Yopo, Ethnicity and Social Change: A Comparative Analysis of Piaroa and Cuiva Yopo Use

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 2011
Most Orinocoan ethnic groups, including the Cuiva and the Piaroa, use yopo, a hallucinogenic snuff derived from the seeds of the Anadenanthera peregrina tree.
Robin Rodd
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Piaroa Shamanic Ethics and Ethos: Living by the Law and the Good Life of Tranquillity

International Journal of Latin American Religions, 2018
The Amazonian cosmos is a battlefield where beauty is possible but violent chaos rules. As a result, the Piaroa world is characterised by an ongoing battle between shamans who uphold, on behalf of all Piaroa, the ideal of ethical living, and forces of ...
Robin Rodd
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Body-part categorization and grammar in Piaroa

2022
AbstractThis chapter provides an in-depth description of body-part terms and their grammar in Piaroa, a language in the Sáliban family spoken in Venezuela and Colombia. Based on fieldwork data, it presents a comprehensive inventory of body-part terms as well as terms in other areas of the lexicon related to the body.
Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada
exaly   +2 more sources

Reassessing the Cultural and Psychopharmacological Significance of Banisteriopsis caapi: Preparation, Classification and Use Among the Piaroa of Southern Venezuela

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 2008
Recent attention to the monoamine oxidase inhibiting properties of Banisteriopsis caapi's harmala alkaloids has precluded a balanced assessment of B. caapi's overall significance to indigenous South American societies.
Robin Rodd
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Intoxicating Snuffs of the Venezuelan Piaroa Indians

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 1985
(1985). Intoxicating Snuffs of the Venezuelan Piaroa Indians. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 93-103.
Laurent Rivier
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Piaroa Manioc Varietals: Hyperdiversity or Social Currency?

Human Ecology, 2008
The maintenance of exceptionally high numbers of folk varieties by the Piaroa people of the Venezuelan Amazon is considered. We cataloged 113 manioc folk varieties, their nomenclature, use and relevant characters, revealing significant insights into the role of manioc in Piaroa social life.
Serena Heckler, Stanford Zent
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The Piaroa subject marking system and its diachrony

Journal of Historical Linguistics, 2018
AbstractPiaroa, a member of the Sáliban language family, is spoken on both sides of the Colombian-Venezuelan border. Based on unpublished fieldwork data for Mako and Piaroa and published Piaroa and Sáliba data, this article focuses on the Piaroa subject marking system and its origins.
Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada
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Cognation, Endogamy, and Teknonymy: The Piaroa Example

Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, 1972
The ideal residence unit of the Piaroa, a horticultural people of the Orinoco Basin, is an endogamous cognatic kinship group. To maintain the consanguineal nature of the kinship group as a whole, individual relationships established as affinal must not be permanent to its structure.
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