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L'art contemporain des Indiens du Sud-Ouest des Etats-Unis
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ISBN: 2804606775 Year: 2002 Volume: *8 Publisher: Tournai La Renaissance du livre

Language and Literacy Teaching for Indigenous Education
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ISBN: 1280828080 9786610828081 1853596027 9781853596025 1853596019 9781853596018 1853596000 9781853596001 Year: 2002 Publisher: Multilingual Matters

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Language and Literacy Teaching for Indigenous Education: A Bilingual Approach presents a proposal for the inclusion of indigenous languages in the classroom. Based on extensive research and field work by the authors in communities in the United States and Mexico, the book explores ways in which the cultural and linguistic resources of indigenous communities can enrich the language and literacy program.

The backbone of history : health and nutrition in the Western Hemisphere
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ISBN: 0521801672 0521617448 0511549954 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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For the same reasons that explorers of the early twentieth century strove to reach the poles, and their modern counterparts journey to outer space, most people want to visualize the contours of the human experience - the peaks of adaptive success that led to the expansion of civilization, and the troughs in which human presence ebbed. The Backbone of History defines the emerging field of macrobioarchaeology by gathering skeletal evidence on seven basic indicators of health to assess chronic conditions that affected individuals who lived in the Western Hemisphere from 5000 BC to the late nineteenth century. Signs of biological stress in childhood and of degeneration in joints and in teeth increased in the several millennia before the arrival of Columbus as populations moved into less healthy ecological environments. Thus, pre-Colombian Native Americans were among the healthiest and the least healthy groups to live in the Western Hemisphere before the twentieth century.

Native religions and cultures of Central and South America
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ISBN: 0826411193 Year: 2002 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Continuum

Migration, mujercitas, and medicine men: living in urban Mexico
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ISBN: 9780520928473 1597347515 0520928474 0585468478 9780585468471 9781597347518 9780520233188 0520233182 9780520233195 0520233190 0520233182 0520233190 Year: 2002 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press

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Valentina Napolitano explores issues of migration, medicine, religion, and gender in this incisive analysis of everyday practices of urban living in Guadalajara, Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork over a ten-year period, Napolitano paints a rich and vibrant picture of daily life in a low-income neighborhood of Guadalajara. Migration, Mujercitas, and Medicine Men insightfully portrays the personal experiences of the neighborhood's residents while engaging with important questions about the nature of selfhood, subjectivity, and community identity as well as the tensions of modernity and its discontents in Mexican society.

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