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Association of EGLN1 gene with high aerobic capacity of Peruvian Quechua at high altitude
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019 Significance Andean highland native populations, such as the Quechua of Peru, have enhanced exercise capacity at altitude and may be genetically adapted to altitude.
T. Brutsaert +8 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.While death remains a popular topic for anthropology, relatively few ethnographic accounts consider the modern bureaucratic processes accompanying it. One such process is public health autopsy, which scholars have largely taken for granted. Existing analysis has regarded it as a form of ‘cultural brokering’ and autopsy reluctance in communities is seen,
David M.R. Orr
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Variation in the syntax and semantics of predicative possession in Quechua [PDF]
, 2018 This paper employs comparative evidence from two closely-related Quechua languages to argue that predicative possession constructions do not always share a single underlying source crosslinguistically (contra Freeze 1992; and in support of Boneh ...
Myler, Neil
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Building on Uriel Weinreich's pioneering (1953) Languages in Contact and on Peter Matthews' insightful commentary on it (2006, this volume) this paper discusses the crucial role of bilingualism, and specifically different types of bilingualism, in understanding whether and how the initial changes at the level of Saussure's parole can ...
Luna Filipović, John A. Hawkins
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Contact and Language Change: Using the Present to Explain the Past1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Although we may know the outcome of language changes that could have resulted from language contact in the past, we are unlikely to know how and why these changes occurred unless we also know about the individual speakers who came into contact and the nature of their interactions—information that all too often is impossible to uncover.
Jenny Cheshire
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Orthography and Identity in Cameroon [PDF]
, 2001 The tone languages of sub-Saharan Africa raise challenging questions for the design of new writing systems. Marking too much or too little tone can have grave consequences for the usability of an orthography.
Bird, Steven
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Environmental justice in education for climate action: Case studies from Perú and Uganda
Children &Society, EarlyView.Abstract This paper draws on participatory research with secondary school learners in Perú and Uganda that shows how environmental and social (in) justices are interwoven and embedded in young people's experiences of the natural world. These experiences contrast with learners' accounts of environmental education in secondary schooling, in which the ...
Rachel Wilder +3 more
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Declaraciones de Deseo y Declaraciones de Realidad : State-Indigenous Relations and Intercultural-Bilingual Education in Peru and Guatemala [PDF]
, 2011 Ethnic diversity has historically created conflict in many nation-states throughout the globe. From the era of nation-state formation to the present, states have had various strategies for dealing with this diversity. These strategies can be divided into
Christie, Emily
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Documentación lingüística del Quechua de Chachapoyas
Liames, 2019 Este artículo presenta una experiencia en documentación lingüística del quechua de Chachapoyas, una variedad clasificada en el tronco Quechua II que se encuentra en situación crítica de extinción.
Jairo Valqui Culqui +5 more
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Lineamientos para un método de enseñanza de quechua para bilingües receptivos en quechua
Lengua y Sociedad, 2020 En el presente artículo se brinda los resultados más importantes de una investigación llevada a cabo en 2017 en la región de Ayacucho que tuvo el objetivo de determinar los lineamientos teóricos y metodológicos necesarios para la elaboración de un método
Norma Meneses Tutaya +3 more
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