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Embodied Geographies: Feminist Body-Mapping with Amazonian Indigenous Girls, Cuerpo-Territorio, and the Outlining of a New Academic Grammar

September 27, 2022

By NOHELY GUZMÁN NARVÁEZ IN MARCH 2019, I had one of the most nurturing, delicate, and vulnerable experiences of my professional career. After years of having worked with Indigenous women from the Bolivian Amazon in whose territories Chinese capital has settled, I learned that the body knows, … [Read more...] about Embodied Geographies: Feminist Body-Mapping with Amazonian Indigenous Girls, Cuerpo-Territorio, and the Outlining of a New Academic Grammar

Tagged With: Body-mapping, Bolivia, Environment, Indigenous Issues, LLILAS, Nohely Guzmán Narváez

Indigenous Self-Determination and Drug Trafficking in Mexico’s Tarahumara Region

August 20, 2019

Leer en español. BY FÁTIMA VALDIVIA IN OCTOBER 2018, Julián Carrillo Martínez, an indigenous Rarámuri defender, was killed in his community of Coloradas de la Virgen, located in the municipality of Guadalupe y Calvo, in the northern state of Chihuahua, Mexico. Together with his community, … [Read more...] about Indigenous Self-Determination and Drug Trafficking in Mexico’s Tarahumara Region

Tagged With: drug trafficking, Environment, Fátima Valdivia, Human Rights, Indigenous Issues, indigenous women, Rarámuri, Student Research, Tarahumara

Faculty Spotlight: Kelly S. McDonough

August 27, 2018

BY SUSANNA SHARPE There is a term in the Nahuatl language that means learned person, sage, or knowledge keeper: itxtlamati (plural, ixtlamatinih), a compound of the words meaning face and to know. The concept of knowledge gleaned from experience is central in the work of Kelly S. McDonough, … [Read more...] about Faculty Spotlight: Kelly S. McDonough

Tagged With: Indigenous Issues, Kelly McDonough, Nahuas, Nahuatl

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