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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Chileans"”.
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Religiositet bland migranter : Sverige-chilenares förhållande till religion och samfund
… is foremost based on interviews with 23 Swedish-Chileans who have lived in Sweden for an extended period of time and who were adults when they immigrated to Sweden. The interviews are thematic life stories. Each one of the individuals narrates his or her life-story and each narration focuses upon …
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Cultural Beliefs and Self-Efficacy in Diet Adherence among Type 2 Diabetics
… T2D to equal rates in comparison to mainstream Chileans within a decade (King & Rewers, 1991; Perez-Bravo et al., 2001). This may be due to economic growth and rapid nutritional shifts (Yu & Zinman, 2007). Previous research has identified the importance of cultural beliefs in explaining health …
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General Fatalism and Diabetes Fatalism as Predictors of Diabetes Treatment Adherence
… a1c levels (hba1c), in a sample of mainstream-Chileans (n=229) and indigenous people of Chile known as the Mapuche (n=134). Hypotheses were that higher income and education would predict more general fatalism and diabetes fatalism across ethnic groups and higher general fatalism would …
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Everything Is Drag: The Politics of Performing Beautiful Women in Cold War Chile
… testimonies of female, queer, and transgender Chileans, including cabaret artists and nightclub owners. My focus on nonreproductive sexuality tells a new story of women in Latin America, of queerness in Latin America, and of Chilean politics and civil rights. It also reveals race, sex, and …
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The Re-Imagining of Rapa Nui Traditional Healing Arts: Explorations of Narrative Identity, Mimesis, and the Public Sphere
… of Communication between Islanders and Mainland Chileans. This is notable in the issues of land tenure-ship, appropriation of funding and policies, and with the preservation of the arts and culture. The government infrastructure needs to be effective in bridging the cultures through the actions …
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Constructing Valparaiso: Infrastructure and the Politics of Progress in Chile's Port, 1842--1918
… the kind of state familiar to twentieth-century Chileans. However, until late in the period, state-controlled projects and foreign investment, upon which most Latin American urban historiography has focused, were far less important than the ideas, abilities, and limitations of local business and …
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Fatalistic Cultural Beliefs in Achievement Aspiration in the U.S. and Chile
… cultural groups in Chile (Mapuche and Mainstream Chileans) and the U.S. (Latino and Anglo). The results were as follows: 1) Higher levels of fatalism did negatively influence achievement aspiration, in Chile and the U.S., 2) Students in Chile and the U.S. had similar levels of cultural beliefs, 3) …
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How the internet is shaping the Chilean scientific community: globalization and dependency
… with increased domestic publications. Although Chileans seldom report problems, those they do report are associated with working with more collaborators and having geographically heterogeneous networks. Email shows no effect toward reducing research problems; and in some cases, email is …
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Three women and an unmarked map: a literary journey through Argentina and Chile
… through the open testimonies of present day Chileans. The researcher/traveller learns 9sometimes the hard way) valuable lessons about how to survive as a twenty-something woman travelling on her own and reflects on the changes time has imposed, not only on south America but also on herself. …
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Diseño de una metodología para determinar la localización de infraestructuras portuarias : un caso de evaluación de la localización de una plataforma logística en la VIII región de Chile
… of this work. The possibilities of the Chileans are also analyzed as for carrying out to improve in some relative aspects to the efficiency in the system of transport, especially, in the transfer from the marine way to the terrestrial one and vice versa. In the worId experience exists in …
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The history of Tuolumne County during the gold rush
… Spaniards, Chinese, Negroes, Irishmen, and Chileans rubbed elbows and occasionally fists with each other. The region was full of gamblers, drunkards, fast women and lumps of gold.</p><p>Before the great rush for gold, California was a quiet, peaceful, sparsely settled land. In 1842, the …
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‘I Need to Work to Be Legal, I Need to Be Legal to Work.’ Migrant Encounters, Haitian Women, and the Chilean State
… Altogether, encounters between Haitian women and Chileans transform the state’s definitions of migrant legality and labour formality through economic practices of black markets, humanitarian rationales, gendered and racialised moral discourses, intimate body transformations and the normalisation …
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Die Rolle der Vergangenheitsbewältigung im Systemwechsel : Fallbeispiel Chile
… to between 40,000 and 50,000. In addition, many Chileans were forced to go into exile or lost their jobs due to politically motivated measures. According to the report of the Commission of Truth and Reconciliation and its successor organization 3,179 people lost their lives. After the failure of …