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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Oaxaca (Mexico)"”.
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Social Dimensions of Alzheimer’s Disease Among Caregivers in Oaxaca, Mexico
… del Valle, a rural Zapotec-speaking community in Oaxaca, Mexico. It explores how Alzheimer’s disease is locally understood, how this understanding reconfigures traditional meanings of old age, and how broader social issues are negotiated through this reconfiguration. Through 10 months of fieldwork …
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Mineralogy and origin of the titanium deposit at Pluma Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Mexico
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, 1962.
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The systematics and uses of the genus Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) of Oaxaca, Mexico
… ethnobotanical treatment of the genus Ipomoea in Oaxaca, Mexico. This taxon merits deeper investigations because of present disorganization and disaccord in its classification on generic, subgeneric, and species levels. A second facet of the investigation involves an ethnobotanical survey on past …
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Meaningful Migrations: Characteristics, Patterns and Outcomes : The case of Teotitecos of Oaxaca, Mexico
… del Valle, located in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico. The characteristics and patterns of Teotiteco migration are described and analysed. Furthermore, the possibility of migration transformations is discussed. The community’s social structure, together with communal practises, is …
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Food Sovereignty, Gender And Transitions In Traditional Culinary Knowledge In The Chinantla, Oaxaca, Mexico
… the last four decades, agrarian communities in Mexico have encountered various factors causing a transition from food self-reliance to dependence on industrial food supply chains. This shift has challenged these communities’ food sovereignty, that is, their right to determine their own food …
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Que Salgamos más Adelante: Identity, Community, and the Desire for Development in Oaxaca, Mexico
… I am interested in the ways Zapotec people in Oaxaca, Mexico engage with development strategies and make them amenable to their own cultural practices and values. I am likewise interested in the extent to which the skills, habits, orientations and identities generated through development …
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Aspirations as a Component of Life Satisfaction: A Look at Female Microfinance Borrowers in Oaxaca, Mexico
<p>This research is an extension to the Oaxaca Hope Project by B. Wydick and T.J. Lybbert. How does an individual gauge her own satisfaction with life? Previous research has noted that many domains make up overall life satisfaction, i.e. career satisfaction, family life satisfaction & social life …
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Classifying and Mapping Diversity in a Species-Poor System: The Mangrove Meta-Community of Laguna Chacahua National Park, Oaxaca, Mexico
… meta-community of Laguna Chacahua National Park, Oaxaca, Mexico</strong></p> <p>by</p> <p>Elizabeth Kay Weisgerber</p> <p>Both field transects and imagery grid plots were analyzed with the goal of creating a community classification map for the mangrove forest of Parque Nacional Lagunas de …
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Developing a framework for a minority language-based utility
… steps taken for deploying a HDL web server in Oaxaca, Mexico, with the participation of two native organizations in its conception. I point out positive as well as negative aspects of the experience that occurred during the process.
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Beyond the paint and ink: ASAR Oaxaca resistance and getting up Arte Pal Pueblo
This thesis aims to address the ways in Oaxacan street artists frame alternative realities within art and interviews about their art. Asamblea de Artistas Revolucionarios de Oaxaca or ASARO, is a revolutionary artist collective that currently works in Oaxaca Mexico. They place their art in …
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Tequio y Tierra: Regenerative Architecture in Oaxaca
… materials and earth construction in marginalized Oaxaca, Mexico. The Mezcal industry – which has exploded in recent years due to celebrity-fueled popularity – is causing serious ecological damage due to industrial-scale monoculture and improper disposal of its plant-base by-products bagasso and …
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Cochineal : a bright red animal dye.
… decline in the use of some synthetic dyes. In Oaxaca, Mexico, the major supplier of cochineal during Spanish Colonial days, there has been an effort to re-establish the cochineal industry. Today the bulk of cochineal comes to the Unites States from Peru.
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Settlement History and Interaction in the Manialtepec Basin of Oaxaca's Central Coast
… of over 70 years* of archaeological research, Oaxaca, Mexico, is one of Mesoamerica*s best understood regions. Yet, despite the volume of work in Oaxaca, information about one of its key resource areas, the central Pacific coast, remains limited. Specifically, the ambiguous role of Oaxaca*s …
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Regional Affiliation: An Examination of Rio Viejo Middens as Evidence for Scaled-up Practice at Surrounding Sites.
… Rio Verde valley sites of Río Viejo and Yugüe, Oaxaca, Mexico, during the Terminal Formative period (150 BC to AD 250). The middens are analyzed to further our understanding of socio-political events in public spaces at both sites during this time. The study suggests a greater distinction in use …
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Studies Toward the Synthesis of Salvinorin A and Synthesis of Broad-Spectrum DENV/WNV NS3 Protease Inhibitors
… is native to the Mazatec region in Northern Oaxaca, Mexico. It has been used by local Mazatec Indians for its hallucinogenic properties in ritual divination and healing ceremonies. It is the first non-alkaloid hallucinogen and the first that is not an agonist of the 5-HT2A receptor. It is a …
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The basic morpho-syntax of Yaitepec Chatino
… family, spoken in the highlands of southeastern Oaxaca, Mexico. It has been described in a small number of articles and in one full-length work, K. Pride's 1965 Chatino Syntax. Among the interesting features of the language are its large inventory of tones, which distinguish between lexical items …
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Growth and transformation of a Mexican Village : Ixpantepec Nieves, Oaxaca
In Mexico today there is an accelerated migration of skilled organized labor from urban centers to rural settlements. This is primarily due to the increased exploitation of natural resources in rural regions and the establishment of new highway networks required to transport the goods. This thesis …
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The acquisition of verbal morphology in Ayöök : child-directed speech, child language, and learning in the home
… in Ayöök, a polysynthetic Mixe-Zoque language of Oaxaca, Mexico. The recordings analyzed here constitute 44 hours of longitudinal, naturalistic video recorded of three children (2;10-4;7) and their adult caregivers over the course of 12 months. Two comparisons are central to this description: (1) …
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Rinconada : a study of resident empowerment for community development
… by five government officials of the City of Oaxaca, Mexico, and by three community leaders, two NGO representatives, and three residents of Rinconada, an urban neighborhood on the outskirt of Oaxaca City. This study documents the dynamics of the Committee for Urban Life (COMVIVE), a community …
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