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Joy within tranquility: Amazonian Urarina styles of happiness [PDF]
, 2015 Enjoyment in life among Amazonian Urarina is examined through the lens of two contrastive concepts of happiness. The first, “tranquility,” is a relatively long-term, relational condition implying emotional spontaneity and a flexible, freely chosen work ...
Walker, Harry
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Assessing Cultural and Ecological Variation in Ethnobiological Research: The Importance of Gender [PDF]
, 2005 Contending that a significant portion of current ethnobiological research continues to overlook cultural variation in traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and practice, this paper explores the potential impacts of gender-imbalanced research on data ...
Pfeiffer, Jeanine M.
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Zoologia (Curitiba), 2016 Two new genera of short-tailed whip-scorpions are described based on material from Brazilian iron ore and canga caves in the Carajás region, Pará, Brazil. Naderiore gen. nov. with a single species N. carajas sp. nov.
Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha +2 more
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El concepto de nada como equivalencia al número cero según los aborígenes de Venezuela [PDF]
, 2012 El presente estudio, trata de establecer cómo el concepto del cero y su signo, desconocidos por parte de los aborígenes de Venezuela, ha sido substituido por los términos: nada, ninguno, nadie en varios de los idiomas de algunas de las etnias ...
Sánchez, Domingo
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Acta Biológica Colombiana, 2016 La cacería de subsistencia ha sido una actividad de vital importancia para las comunidades indígenas como fuente de proteína y venta. Se caracterizó la cacería de subsistencia realizada por comunidades de las etnias Piaroa y Curripaco presentes en la ...
Mónica del Pilar Martínez Salas +2 more
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MARCADORES SEROLOGICOS DEL VIRUS DE HEPATITIS B EN PUEBLOS INDIGENAS DEL ESTADO AMAZONAS, VENEZUELA
Acta Biológica Colombiana, 2020 Venezuela presenta un nivel de prevalencia intermedia de Hepatitis B, con cuatro focos de alta endemicidad asociados principalmente a población indígena.
Nathalia Elena Cardona Chorro +1 more
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A dialogue among indigenous groups: the experience of two encounters mediated by the video
Revista de Antropologia, 1995 In this paper, Peter Riviére, deals with Lowland South American notions of transformation as presente is mythic narratives and cosmologies as well as in social practices. Human nature is understood as varied and intricated, this condition being expressed
Peter Riviere
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Autonomous partners: asymmetry and masculinity in Amazonian river trade
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 118-136, March 2025.Abstract Trade on the Iriri River, in the eastern Brazilian Amazonia, is structured around a credit‐barter system between clients and bosses known as aviamento in Portuguese. Nowadays, bosses are river traders born in the riversides who offer goods on credit to riverside dwellers, who later pay these debts with fish and products they collect from the ...
Vinicius de Aguiar Furuie
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Explorando el potencial alimenticio y nutricional de tres artrópodos amazónicos comestibles [PDF]
, 2017 Ensuring food supply and availability, and consequently food safety, on a global scale represents one of the most important challenges of this century. The exploitation of local resources such as invertebrates has been extremely relevant to contribute to
Garcia, Jesús Eribert Bravo +4 more
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Pre-colonial institutions and socioeconomic development: The case of Latin America [PDF]
, 2017 We study the effects of pre-colonial institutions on present-day socioeconomic outcomes for Latin America. Our thesis is that more advanced pre-colonial institutions relate to better socioeconomic outcomes today. We advance that pre-colonial institutions
Angeles, Luis, Elizalde, Aldo
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