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Mapuche Prisoners on Hunger Strike

SALSA Statement on the Serious Situation of Mapuche Prisoners on Hunger Strike in Chile (7-22-20)

SALSA Statement On the Serious Situation of Mapuche Prisoners on Hunger Strike in Chile 22 July 2020 The Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA), an international scholarly association comprised of professors, students, and practitioners, is writing to express our grave concerns about the health and...

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CAAAP: Cusco-Ucayali: El Bajo Urubamba registra primera víctima mortal por Covid19 (7-20-20)

CAAAP: Cusco-Ucayali: El Bajo Urubamba registra primera víctima mortal por Covid19 CAAAP 7-20-20 Una paciente con más de 70 años procedente de la comunidad nativa Yine de Miaría (Cusco) falleció esta madrugada en el centro Covid de Sepahua (Ucayali) tras ser hospitalizada ayer con un cuadro respiratorio severo...

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New issue of Tipití – Vol. 16, issue 1, 2018-2019

New issue of Tipití Cosmology and Practice in Amazonia Vol. 16, issue 2, 2018-2019 The new special Tipití issue, entitled “Cosmology and Practice in Amazonia,” is now available. The collection of articles focuses on the life and work of Stephen Hugh-Jones and can be viewed by following the link: <https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/tipiti/vol16/iss2/>...

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Brazil Health Workers May Have Spread Coronavirus to Indigenous People (7-19-20)

Brazil Health Workers May Have Spread Coronavirus to Indigenous People Manuela Andreoni, Ernesto Londoño and Letícia Casado  7-19-20 The telltale symptoms began in late May, about a week after government medical workers made a routine visit to the Kanamari Indigenous community in a remote part of the Amazon:...

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“Sr. presidente de la República, Ud. tiene que dialogar con los PP. II.” (7-17-20)

“Sr. presidente de la República, Ud. tiene que dialogar con los PP. II.” Servindi 7-17-20 Guillermo Ñaco, comunicador y líder indígena del pueblo Asháninka, pidió al Gobierno peruano dialogar con las organizaciones indígenas de la Amazonía para evitar que la pandemia del Covid-19 provoque el exterminio de los...

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