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Art History, Volume 46, Issue 5, Page 946-977, November 2023., 2023 In seventeenth‐century Cartagena de Indias, a portcity in today's Colombia, enslaved Africans recently disembarked from the Middle Passage faced a Jesuit‐designed multisensory catechesis. The process involved listening to translations of the Christian doctrine delivered by African interpreter‐catechists enslaved by the Jesuits, often in conjunction ...
Larissa Brewer‐García +1 more
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The effect of the healthcare system's structure on COVID‐19 dynamics in Ecuador
Regional Science Policy &Practice, Volume 15, Issue 8, Page 1795-1819, October 2023., 2023 Abstract To manage the COVID‐19 pandemic, governments established certain stringency measures, such as lockdowns and traffic light systems. However, the response to the pandemic depended on the regions' preexisting capacities and underlying conditions.
Grace Carolina Guevara‐Rosero
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La Santa Muerte y la cultura de los derechos humanos
Liminar: Estudios Sociales y Humanísticos, 2008 Este artículo tiene su origen en la siguiente pregunta: ¿qué valores se construyen en el culto a La Santa Muerte y cómo afectan el contexto socio-simbólico de los derechos humanos?
Pilar Castells Ballarín
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Roadkill patterns in Latin American birds and mammals
Global Ecology and Biogeography, Volume 31, Issue 9, Page 1756-1783, September 2022., 2022 Abstract Aim Roads are a major threat for wildlife, degrading habitat and causing mortality via wildlife–vehicle collisions. In Latin America, the conjunction of high biodiversity and a rapidly expanding road network is reason for concern. We introduce an approach that combines species traits and habitat preferences to describe vulnerability and map ...
Pablo Medrano‐Vizcaíno +6 more
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Dying for love: Illegal international trade in hummingbird love charms
Conservation Science and Practice, Volume 4, Issue 6, June 2022., 2022 Abstract Hummingbirds (family Trochilidae) are among the most recognizable groups of birds, due to their tiny size, supremely maneuverable flight, and iridescent plumage. They are essential pollinators in ecosystems throughout the New World, and are welcome visitors to gardens and nectar feeders in every corner of the United States.
Pepper W. Trail
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A Fatherland of Free Men. Virility and ‘Frailty’ in Spanish Liberalism (1808–1814)
Gender &History, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 42-58, March 2022., 2022 Abstract The ideal of the patriotic citizen‐soldier familiar from civic humanism re‐emerged in Spain in the context of the Napoleonic Wars. Spaniards were required to uphold a model of masculinity that was continually threatened by ‘effeminacy’. The study of this model is approached through an analysis of literary texts: the main neoclassical tragedies
Xavier Andreu‐Miralles
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The Basque Heroine Libe and the Nationalist Press (1895–1936)
Gender &History, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 77-97, March 2022., 2022 Abstract The founder of Basque nationalism, Sabino Arana, wrote Libe. Melodrama dramático (a dramatic melodrama) in 1902. Arana placed the heroine ‘Libe’ in a medieval battle. She was created to convey what the role of Basque women should be in defending their Homeland. Arana died shortly after the script was published in 1903. His successors attempted
Leyre Arrieta
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A bridge too far for artificial intelligence?: Automatic classification of stanzas in Spanish poetry
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 73, Issue 2, Page 258-267, February 2022., 2022 Abstract The rise in artificial intelligence and natural language processing techniques has increased considerably in the last few decades. Historically, the focus has been primarily on texts expressed in prose form, leaving mostly aside figurative or poetic expressions of language due to their rich semantics and syntactic complexity.
Álvaro Pérez Pozo +5 more
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Terrains/Théories, 2022 This article compares two versions of the informal and controversial cult of the image of Death in Latin America, Santa Muerte in Mexico and San la Muerte in Argentina.
Maureen Burnot
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Safeguarding the House of the Dead: Configurations of Risk and Protection in the Urban Cemetery
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 45, Issue 6, Page 1056-1063, November 2021., 2021 Abstract In Lima's pueblos jóvenes—the vast informal settlements that surround the city—migrants who settled there also founded graveyards. Cemeteries are a natural socio‐spatial extension of the settlements and houses that urbanites constructed with their own hands. Lima's peripheral cemeteries are permeable spaces which are often regarded as zones of
Christien Klaufus
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