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Morality and Emotion in the Dynamics of an Amerindian Society (Warao, Orinoco Delta, Venezuela)
This dissertation is a study of the interplay of moral issues and emotional states in the daily life of the Warao of the Orinoco Delta in Venezuela. Among the Warao, neither moral issues nor emotional processes are the subject of much explicit discursive elaboration. They usually emerge in a …
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Minority housing conditions in urban settings: Proposals for the improvement of Las Vegas' Amerindian homes
Native Americans living on reservations occupy some of the worst housing in the United States. But, nowadays, both on reservations and in urban settings, a small majority (about 56%) of them use the same types of architectural space as any other Americans. For example, HUD homes on the …
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Some Amerindian Terms in American Spanish: A Glossary and Study Based on Twelve Indigenist Novels of the Andean Region
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Music in Urban La Paz, Bolivian Nationalism, and the Early History of Cosmopolitan Andean Music: 1936--1970
… music prominently and overtly references Amerindian cultural practices---a similar development has not occurred in other Latin American countries, including those with numerically significant Amerindian populations such as Peru and Ecuador. Moreover, Andean folkloric music has long …
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Cheyenne Verb Agreement in Gpsg (Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar)
… Cheyenne, a member of the Algonquian family of Amerindian languages, in terms of Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG). Agreement in this theory works by a mechanism of feature matching among nodes of a tree diagram which represents the structure of units of the language, either words or …
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Genetic variation and health in a rural Caribbean village
… and admixture from African, European, and Amerindian ancestral populations that occurred 5-6 generations ago (~130-150 years). Amerindian haplotypes represented in Bwa Mawego associate with deeply diverged lineages in Karitiana and Surui peoples, highlighting the regionally variable nature …
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For Logs, For Traditional Purposes and For Food: Identification of Multiple-Use Plant Species of Northern Amazonia and an Assessment of Factors Associated with Their Distribution
… and drew on the traditional knowledge of Amerindians to define multiple-use plants, describe their multiplicity of uses, describe vegetation types and assess multiple-use species distribution relative to land tenure classes and herbivores. I found four classes of multiple-use plants: …
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Languages, Translation, and Encounters in the Seventeenth-Century North Atlantic World
… Virginia. I show how the quest for knowledge of Amerindian languages traversed the Atlantic and enabled both Indigenous and English interpreters to become intermediaries in the early colony. The ensuing chapter is concerned with French-Indigenous encounters in Acadia and Québec. Marc Lescarbot’s …
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Abyssal Ideology and the Amerindians of Guyana: An Eco-Crimes Analysis of Power, Discourse and Cognitive Injustice
… the indigenous peoples of Guyana, the Amerindians. Massaging the parameters of green criminology and the eco-crimes framework, I synthesize Norman Faircloughs methodology known as critical discourse analysis (CDA) and Boaventura de Sousa Santos theoretical framework of Abyssal Thinking …
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Body marking within New France : a contemporary perspective
… the terms in which a specific aspect of Amerindian history--body marking--has been written in order to trace the mutual historical implications of European and aboriginal cultures. The study gathers the widely dispersed information that surrounds this topic in order to lay a factual and …
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A production of alterity: The Wayãpi of the Upper Oyapock and isolated groups
This study was carried out amongst the Wayãpi Amerindians of French Guiana, who have been made sedentary by governmental ‘francisation’ policies since the 1970s. Based on geographic location, ethnohistorical literature and Ameridian discourse, it proposes the definition of three “zones” near the …
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The Indian Map Trade in Colonial Oaxaca
… of natural resources among the region's Spanish, Amerindian, and mixed-race communities. This work stresses the role of Indian painters in the formation of early modern empires highlighting the way mapmakers challenged Spanish ideals of visual representation instead re-envisioning spatial …
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La crise d'Oka à la télévision : l'éloge du barbare
… Société Radio-Canada/CBC) during the 1990 Oka Amerindian crisis. Television offers a rhetoric inflected by postmodernism, which is to say with unconventional features that depart from common sense. Television develops a rhetoric of disproportion where, through the inversion of represented …
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Between a Promise and a Trench: Citizenship, Vulnerability, and Climate Change in Guyana
… post-colonial claims of Indo-, Afro-, and Amerindian Guyanese to land and self-determination. The dissertation is based on seventeen months of fieldwork and archival research conducted between, 2009-11 in coastal Guyana. It brings together three conflicting perspectives: of engineers, who …
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Marriage in death : ritual representations of Belizean Garifuna ('Black Carib') society.
The Garifuna, an Afro-Amerindian people, were deported from St . Vincent by the British in 1797. About 70,000 Garinagu (pl. form) now inhabit the coastal zone of Central America from Nicaragua to Belize. In the sparsely-populated southern half of Belize Garinagu live in discrete coastal settlements …
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Guyanese comfa: arts of imagination
… a pantheon of seven ethnic spirits: African, Amerindian, Chinese, Dutch, English, (East) Indian and Spanish. These groups have been historically associated with Guyana. Spirit possessions are stereotypically defined to reflect the ethnicity of each spirit. Inspired by Ema Brodber's method of …
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Edward Goodall’s ‘Sketches in British Guiana’: art, anthropography and colonialism in 19th century Amazonia
This thesis examines sketched portraits of Amerindian peoples created by the English artist Edward Goodall during the 1841-1844 Boundary Survey of British Guiana, now Guyana, which was carried out by the German scientific explorer, Robert Schomburgk. The portraits formed part of a larger body of …
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Through the Eyes of Shamans: Childhood and the Construction of Identity in Rosario Castellanos' "Balun-Canan" and Rudolfo Anaya's "Bless Me, Ultima"
… need to build bridges between their European and Amerindian roots in the middle of external influences that complicate the construction of a new <em>mestizo</em> consciousness. In order to attain that consciousness and free themselves from their divided selves, these children receive the aid of an …
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Language, Identity, and Power in Colonial Brazil, 1695-1822
… the power relations and conflicts between Amerindian, European, African, and mestizo actors who shaped, standardised, and promoted the Portuguese language within and beyond state institutions. The expansion of Portuguese was as much a result of state intervention as it was of individual …
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Dunmore's new world: Political culture in the British Empire, 1745--1796
… emancipation, naval combat, loyalist advocacy, Amerindian slavery, and trans-imperial filibusters, to say nothing of his proximity to the Haitian Revolution or his role in the defense of the British West Indies during the French Revolutionary Wars. Quick to break with convention on behalf of the …
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