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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 251-260, September 2023., 2023 Abstract The literature on the recent exponential growth of the extractive industry in Latin America and beyond has documented the various processes through which this sector has been empowered to expand its frontier, as well as the strategies that affected communities employ to resist it.
Karine Vanthuyne, Marie Christine Dugal
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Monuments to Mestizaje and the Commemoration of Racial Democracy in Puerto Rico
Visual Anthropology Review, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 350-387, Fall 2023., 2023 Abstract In this paper, I argue that monuments to mestizaje (miscegenation) in Puerto Rico reaffirm the myth of a harmonious mixture between the White Spaniard, Black African, and Indigenous Taíno. This racial triad, originally conceived in the nineteenth century, was institutionalized in 1956 by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture to legitimize the ...
Rafael V. Capó García
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Ad maiorem Dei gloriam: Numeracy levels in the Guarani Jesuit missions
The Economic History Review, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 87-117, February 2023., 2023 Abstract This work provides data on human capital for the Guarani Jesuit missions during the eighteenth century. Based on the age heaping methodology, the results of a large sample (over 3600 observations) suggest that the knowledge of numerical skills in these missions was exceptional.
Èric Gómez‐i‐Aznar
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OF FERAL AND OBEDIENT COWS: Colonization as Domestication in the Paraguayan Chaco
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 8-35, February 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT In the Paraguayan Chaco, cattle evoke images of power, prosperity, and celebration, but they also trigger one of the quickest deforestation processes in the world. The presence of cattle in the region has deep historical roots, dating back to the beginning of the colonization process, when the establishment of a double economy based on cattle ...
VALENTINA BONIFACIO
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Environmental Federalism in Indian Country: Sovereignty, Primacy, and Environmental Protection
Policy Studies Journal, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 887-908, August 2021., 2021 Extensive research on “environmental federalism” investigates the effects of shared state‐federal implementation on policy outcomes under the landmark American environmental laws of the 1970s. But these laws originally made no mention of American Indian tribal lands, and subsequent research on environmental federalism has given them little attention ...
Mellie Haider, Manuel P. Teodoro
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German Life and Letters, Volume 74, Issue 3, Page 339-370, July 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT Alexander von Humboldt was regarded as an anti‐fascist symbol among German‐speaking exiles who, fleeing persecution from the Nazi regime, found refuge in Mexico. Humboldt's legacy was read as being an endorsement of the country's struggle for political and cultural emancipation, while his famously anti‐racist stance proved helpful in framing ...
Andrea Acle‐Kreysing
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Fronteras de la Historia, 2023 El pan fue un alimento de primera necesidad para el abasto de las ciudades de blancos y pueblos de indios del Nuevo Reino de Granada. El objetivo de este artículo de reflexión es analizar el papel de las amasadoras, las tratantes y los vendedores del ...
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Pueblos y trabajo indígena en los Andes centrales: Bombón en el siglo XVII
América Latina en la Historia Económica, 2019 Con base en una documentación rica e inédita, este artículo busca establecer los cambios en las relaciones laborales de los pueblos de indios o reducciones con el surgimiento y consolidación de estancias ganaderas y obrajes privados en las inmediaciones,
Francisco F. Quiroz
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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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Indigenous musicians in colonial Paraguay: thoughts on spatial mobility [PDF]
, 2016 Indexación: Web of ScienceEste trabajo centra su mirada en los indígenas músicos de los pueblos de indios del Paraguay colonial, tomando como punto de partida la movilidad espacial de estos sujetos en la zona.
Fahrenkrog, L
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