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Chagas' disease. --- American trypanosomiasis --- Barbiero fever --- Cruz-Chagas disease --- South American trypanosomiasis --- Trypanosomiasis
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Chagas Disease causes severe socioeconomic impact and a high medical cost in Latin America. WHO and the World Bank consider Chagas Disease as the fourth most transmittable disease to have a major impact on public health in Latin America: 120 million persons are potentially exposed, 16-18 million of whom are presently infected, causing 45,000-50,000 deaths per year. It has been calculated that approximately 2.4 million potential working years are lost because of incapacity and mortality due to the disease, for an annual cost estimated at 20 billion euros. This book provides a comprehe
Chagas' disease. --- American trypanosomiasis --- Barbiero fever --- Cruz-Chagas disease --- South American trypanosomiasis --- Trypanosomiasis
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El libro trata sobre las dinámica de las fuerzas de desarrollo y de la resistencia asociadas con los avances del ›extractivismo‹ (inversiones extranjeras en la extracción de recursos naturales) en el contexto Latinoamericano, y esto en condiciones de una crisis multidimensional del sistema capitalista. Se analiza los impactos socioecológicos negativos, así como la resistencia a los avances del extractivismo en las comunidades que viven estos impactos. El libro sera de gran interés para todos interesados en encontrar una salida a la crisis actual para poder participar en la construccóin de un otro mundo de desarrollo sostenible y la justicia social y ambiental.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. --- America. --- Bielefeld University Press. --- Latin America. --- Political Sociology. --- Political System. --- Social Inequality. --- South American History.
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Fundada em 1953, a Revista de Antropologia é uma publicação semestral do Departamento de Antropologia da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo - FFLCH/USP. Seu objetivo é publicar artigos inéditos nacionais e internacionais que apresentam resultados de pesquisa ou ensaios teóricos e que estejam em concordância com as preocupações da Antropologia. A revista aceita artigos em qualquer época do ano, em fluxo contínuo, e tem publicado também dossiês ou números temáticos. A Revista é indexada no Índice de Ciências Sociais/IUPERJ/RJ e Hispanic American Periodicals Index e recebe o apoio do CNPq, FAPESP e SIBI/USP.
Anthropology --- Indians of South America --- Anthropology. --- Indians, South America. --- Anthropologie --- Indians of South America. --- ANTROPOLOGIA --- ETNOLOGIA --- PUBLICACIONES PERIODICAS. --- Brazil. --- Indians, South American. --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- Amerinds, South American --- American Amerind, South --- American Amerinds, South --- American Indian, South --- American Indians, South --- Amerind, South American --- Indian, South American --- South American Amerind --- South American Amerinds --- South American Indian --- South American Indians --- Industries --- Ethnology --- al-Barāzīl --- Barāzīl --- Brasil --- Brasile --- Brasilië --- Brasilien --- Brazili --- Brazili Federativlă Respubliki --- Brazilia --- Brazilië --- Brazilii︠a︡ --- Brazilii︠a︡ Federativ Respublikaḣy --- Braziliya --- Braziliya Federativ Respublikası --- Brazilská federativní republika --- Brazylia --- Brésil --- Federale Republiek van Brasilië --- Federative Republic of Brazil --- Federativna republika Brazil --- Federativna republika Brazilii︠a︡ --- Federat︠s︡iėm Respublikė Brazil --- Fedėratyŭnai︠a︡ Rėspublika Brazilii︠a︡ --- Gweriniaeth Ffederal Brasil --- Pa-hsi --- Pa-se --- Pa-se Liân-pang Kiōng-hô-kok --- Pederatibong Republika sa Brasil --- Pindorama --- República Federal del Brasil --- Republica Federale di u Brasile --- Republica Federativa del Brazil --- República Federativa do Brasil --- Rèpublica fèdèrativa du Brèsil --- Republik Kevreel Brazil --- République fédérative du Brésil --- Tantasqa Republika Wrasil --- Tetã Pindorama --- Wrasil --- Human beings --- Brasili --- Brazilii͡ --- Brazilii͡a Federativ Respublikaḣy --- Federale Republiek van Brasili --- Federativna republika Brazilii͡ --- Federat͡siėm Respublikė Brazil --- Fedėratyŭnai͡a Rėspublika Brazilii͡ --- Indians, South America --- Brasilia --- Burajiru --- Indians, South American --- Brazil --- Indigenous peoples --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Anthropologie. --- anthropology. --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences --- Peuples autochtones --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Social Sciences
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This book explores the pivotal role that football played as part of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos’ national unity project centred on the peace process with the FARC. Football has huge political and social capital in Latin America, and has often been rhetorically deployed by governments for various ends; rarely, however, has football’s power and potential been used in such a deliberate, strategic and active way towards a national peace process and targeted such enduring divisions that have historically impeded a sense of a united nation and national identity. Football in Colombia is understood popularly as one of the few things capable of uniting the country, a belief that Santos seized upon as the national team had a successful campaign in the 2014 World Cup. This first book on Colombian football in English explores previous iterations of football nationalism in the country, including the El Dorado and ‘Narcofootball’ eras, before analysing Santos’ three-pronged strategy empowering professional and amateur football, including the use of political speeches and Twitter, legislation and public policy, and Sport for Development and Peace campaigns, with a particular focus on football in the FARC demobilisation and reincorporation camps following the historic peace agreement.
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Discusses the reasons South American people left their homeland to come to North America, the experiences immigrants had in the new country, and the contributions this cultural group made to the North American society.
South American Americans --- South Americans --- History --- History --- 1900-1999 --- South America --- United States --- Canada --- Emigration and immigration --- History --- Emigration and immigration --- History --- Emigration and immigration --- History
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Los regímenes progresistas se encuentran en una profunda crisis. Quien no se contenta con denunciar las previsibles maquinaciones del »imperialismo«, debe buscar las razones internas del fracaso del proclamado »socialismo del siglo XXI«. ¿Por qué tales regímenes, que deben su aparición y sus éxitos iniciales en gran medida a la movilización de las masas, no han podido mantener el apoyo activo de una mayoría de la población? La respuesta se busca aquí recurriendo al historial de la izquierda latinoamericana. El objetivo es mostrar cómo el concepto organizativo de Lenin ha llegado a América Latina, comenzando con las intervenciones de la Internacional Comunista. Se examina si este legado también ha influido en los protagonistas del »progresismo« y de qué manera. La reflexión en la parte principal se basa en el papel central de Hugo Chávez y su relación ambivalente con la herencia histórica de la izquierda.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. --- America. --- Bielefeld University Press. --- Political Sociology. --- Political System. --- Politics. --- South American History. --- Chavismo; Leninismo; Stalinismo; Progresismo; América Latina; Amerika; Politik; Politische Soziologie; Politisches System; Südamerikanische Geschichte; Lateinamerika; Bielefeld University Press; Latin America; America; Politics; Political Sociology; Political System; South American History
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Este libro presenta casos de experimentos sociales en El Salvador, Nicaragua, y Uruguay. En estos espacios, donde florecía la comunicación horizontal y multi-clasista, el concepto de utopías menores de Jay Winter es apropiado. Este ensayo toma inspiración de esa obra importante de Winter, rastreando lo que él llama las »visiones de transformación parcial«, que coexistían temporalmente con las grandes narrativas de transformación social, pero después perdieron su lugar propio en el record histórico. Trabajadores agrícolas en Chinandega, minifundistas en Morazán, y obreros fabriles en Montevideo, en medio de graves crisis sociales-económicas y políticas conquistaron espacios para defenderse, pero también de crear nuevas relaciones sociales y una experiencia de trabajo colectiva y libertadora.
HISTORY / Latin America / South America. --- America. --- Bielefeld University Press. --- Latin America. --- Literature. --- Political Sociology. --- Social Movements. --- South American History. --- Uruguay. --- Nicaragua; Uruguay; El Salvador; Resistencia; Utopía; Amerika; Literatur; Südamerikanische Geschichte; Soziale Bewegungen; Politische Soziologie; Lateinamerika; Bielefeld University Press; America; Literature; South American History; Social Movements; Political Sociology; Latin America
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Ecology. --- Taxonomy of educational objectives. --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Ecology --- South America --- Cono Sur de América --- South American Southern Cone --- Southern South America
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Este libro ofrece el primer estudio histórico integral sobre la teología de la liberación en Ecuador. Al indagar más allá del llamado »Obispo de los Indios« (L. Proaño), la obra desmitifica las narrativas dominantes sobre el activismo católico postconciliar en los Andes. Este estudio, a partir de la investigación de archivo y la historia oral, explora los entrelazamientos entre el catolicismo progresista latinoamericano, el activismo religioso local, y la formación del movimiento indígena. Repensar la Revolución del Poncho arroja nuevas luces sobre las expresiones locales de un fenómeno transnacional, y sus vínculos con los discursos sobre derechos humanos y la cooperación internacional para el desarrollo.
Historia; América Latina; Teología de la Liberación; Movimiento Indígena; Ecuador; Sociedad Civil; Religión; Política; Historia de América del Sur; Historia del Siglo XX; Movimientos Sociales; Historiografía; Latin America; Civil Society; Religion; Politics; South American History; History of the 20th Century; Social Movements; History --- Civil Society. --- Ecuador. --- History of the 20th Century. --- History. --- Politics. --- Religion. --- Social Movements. --- South American History.
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