Amaranths Were Nearly Wiped Out by Colonization. Now, They’re Making a Return.
Once a mainstay of Indigenous diets, the South American crop is having a resurgence in popularity, in part because of its ...
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Peru moves to reconcile with protesting indigenous peoples
Peru's government is moving toward reconciliation with the indigenous peoples after two months of rioting and protest that left over fifty people dead. The government of President Alan García ...
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The Rise of Fourth Cinema
Ife Olatunji is a practicing visual anthropologist specializing in observational cinema and longitudinal ethnographic ...
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The rubber boom and its legacy in Brazil, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia
The invention of vulcanized rubber (1839), followed by the popularization of bicycles (1870s) and the invention of the ...
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Indigenous people advocate land demarcation to reduce climate damage
The case was made by the G9, a group that brings together representatives of indigenous communities from the nine countries ...
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Indigenous people with HIV 'invisible' in Latin America
Indigenous people affected by HIV say they feel "invisible ... an HIV activist from Peru, at an HIV conference in Lima last week. "Without our voices, we remain invisible, silenced, and trapped ...