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Ethnic education and ethnicity in multicultural contexts Educational policies and cultural differences in the colombian amazon region [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Este artículo aborda la forma en que la política estatal colombiana en materia de educación para grupos  étnicos: “etnoeducación”, se ha constituido, en el ámbito académico y social, como la oportunidad de ofrecer a los pueblos étnicamente ...
Orrego Chica, Bayron
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An argument for sparsity

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 347-362, June 2023., 2023
Abstract I consider the influence of the language used in anthropological analysis (the metalanguage). If in principle there are at least as many anthropologies as there are languages, then we must allow the possibility of seven thousand or so more or less incommensurable anthropologies.
David Zeitlyn
wiley   +1 more source

Bargaining and interdependence: Common parent‐offspring conflict resolution strategies among Chon Chuuk and their implications for suicidal behavior

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 125, Issue 2, Page 262-282, June 2023., 2023
Abstract The anthropology of Pacific cultures spotlights social conflict as a proximate cause of suicide. Ethnographic accounts suggest that suicidal behaviors are high‐cost conflict‐resolution strategies. We investigate parent‐child conflicts and the strategies adolescents and young adults use to resolve them, using concepts from human behavioral ...
Kristen L. Syme, Edward H. Hagen
wiley   +1 more source

Language otherwise: Linguistic natures and the ontological challenge

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 4-24, May 2023., 2023
Abstract Linguistic anthropology has remained largely unaffected by debates about ontology in other subfields. In turn, the concept of language has been conspicuously absent from ontological debates. The past few years, however, have seen attempts at articulating the two, interrogating what language is from ethnographic perspectives and extending the ...
Jan David Hauck
wiley   +1 more source

Amazonian Activism for European Museum Audiences: Critical Reflections on the Development of an “Amazonia” Exhibition at the National Museum of World Cultures, the Netherlands

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, Volume 66, Issue 2, Page 277-295, April 2023., 2023
Abstract This paper describes and expands on the discussions held at a symposium at the Research Center for Material Culture in the Netherlands in February 2020, which was held as part of the planning of an upcoming “Amazonia” exhibition to be curated at that institution by some of the authors.
Laura Osorio Sunnucks   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Language ideology in an endogamous society: The case of Daghestan

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 159-176, April 2023., 2023
Abstract Studies of multilingual systems found in Indigenous small‐scale communities often assume that exogamous marriages are the norm in such societies and contribute to their linguistic diversity. This paper is an account of the language ideology of endogamous societies in rural highland Daghestan (Northeast Caucasus).
Nina Dobrushina
wiley   +1 more source

Ecological Calendars of the Pamir Mountains: Illustrating the Importance of Context‐Specificity for Food Security

open access: yesGeoHealth, Volume 6, Issue 12, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Communities in the Pamir Mountains of Central Asia are among the most vulnerable to climate change due to their geographic location and subsistence‐based livelihoods. Historically, ecological calendars supported their agropastoral lifestyles which provided anticipatory capacity to seasonal changes.
A. L. Ullmann, I. Haag, U. Bulbulshoev
wiley   +1 more source

N,N‐dimethyltryptamine and Amazonian ayahuasca plant medicine

open access: yesHuman Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental, Volume 37, Issue 3, May 2022., 2022
Abstract Objective Reports have indicated possible uses of ayahuasca for the treatment of conditions including depression, addictions, post‐traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and specific psychoneuroendocrine immune system pathologies. The article assesses potential ayahuasca and N,N‐dimethyltryptamine (DMT) integration with contemporary healthcare ...
Edward James   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Etnoornitología para la sostenibilidad biológica en los departamentos del Vaupés y Guainía [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Each year Ornithology as the main study of birds grows stronger among biologist, environmentalists and ornithologists who search increasing the registers of new species and keeping of their habitats. For the locations of Vaupes and Guainia, this topic is
Coley Barrios, Cyntia Patricia   +1 more
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Connecting tradition and technology: The digitization of the ethnobotanical collection at the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 4, Page 1104-1115, July 2026.
The digitization of RBetno (JBRJ) represents a step forward for biodiversity conservation in Brazil. Aligned with the Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (Target 2, 2020–2030), this project documents the use of plants, including traditional knowledge and vernacular names, with a focus on the Atlantic Forest and Amazon.
Viviane S. Fonseca‐Kruel   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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