This chapter presents a synthesis of the early historical period based on the study of archives in Santiago, Chile, and Seville, Spain, which refer to the Purén–Lumaco region during the sixteenth and the early seventeenth ...

The civic-military regime of Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay lasted from 1954 to 1989 and developed a system that censured all opposition made. The targets of this repression were the politicians linked to the opposition ...

This article shows the results of an investigation in the territory of indigenous peoples from Zhiña, in the canton of Nabón, Ecuador, based on the study of the discourses and alternative practices of the orthodox development ...

This article focuses on local perceptions of wellbeing, their underlying social and power relations and the resulting cultural resistance by Rarámuri indigenous people in the Tarahumara region, Mexico. It is based on ...

In several cultures around the world, paste resist dyeing has been traditionally performed in the dyeing of textiles. In Nigeria, adire eleko is a method which uses cassava as the base for the paste. In Japan, a similar ...