Maintien du potentiel adaptatif chez les plantes domestiquées à propagation clonale by Doyle McKey, Marianne Elias, Benoît Pujol, Anne Duputié, Marc Delêtre, Delphine Renard

“…We studied how Amerindian cultivators of manioc in Amazonia simultaneously maintain the genetic diversity and the agronomic performance of their populations of this plant. …”
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L’artisanat touristique du Sud-Ouest des États-Unis. L’exemple des objets collectés par Alphonse Pinart à Santa Fe, à la fin du xixe siècle by Éloïse Galliard

“…The trade in curios, Amerindian objects for tourists, had just begun and Alphonse Pinart succumbed to it. …”
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L’autonomisation des Églises baniwa. Genèse et institutionnalisation d’un mouvement évangélique amérindien (Amazonie brésilienne) by Élise Capredon

“…Most of them have stressed that Amerindian conversions are generally ephemeral or “inconstant.” …”
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Catastrophes and Weddings. Chachi Ritual as Metamorphosis by Istvan Praet

“…The particular case described examines the link between catastrophes and the wedding festival of the Chachi, Amerindians from the Pacific coast of Ecuador.…”
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Quand les morts reviennent… Réflexion sur l’ancestralité chez les Mayas des Basses Terres by Olivier Le Guen

“…When the dead come home… Remarks on ancestor worship among the Lowland Mayas. In Amerindian ethnographical literature, ancestor worship is often mentioned but evidence of its existence is lacking. …”
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Modelização gráfica da Pré-História do Rio Grande do Sul: Os sítios arqueológicos ameríndios, culturas e temporalidades by Danilo Alexandre Galhardo, Juliana Aparecida Rocha Luz Zago, Thiago Moraes Passos, David Lugli Turtela Pereira

“…This article worked with data from archaeological sites dating from different Amerindian cultures – archaeological traditions – in the state of Rio Grande do Sul (Southern Brazil), collected from archaeological synthetic works. …”
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Délimitations et défenses du territoire : les conditions d’émergence de la linguistique nord-américaine au début du XXe siècle by Henri Le Prieult

“…From the first works of anthropologists who had to deal with the "Amerindian imperative," to the development of a "ho-me-grown structuralism" (Harris 1993), there seems to have been an enduring link between the emergence of a specifically American linguistic school of thought and the very conditions the land of American offered to the many amateurs and scientists who considered and analysed the facts of language from the XVIth century onwards. …”
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Quelques traits généraux de la diversité sylvatique des Petites Antilles by Philippe Joseph

“…Between these island microsystems, the mesologic differences led a high biological variety which the anthropisation stressed from the beginning of the Amerindian setelmen (occupation), approximately 4 000 years ago. …”
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Human Population Admixture in Asia by Shuhua Xu

“…Genetic admixture in human, the result of inter-marriage among people from different well-differentiated populations, has been extensively studied in the New World, where European colonization brought contact between peoples of Europe, Africa, and Asia and the Amerindian populations. In Asia, genetic admixing has been also prevalent among previously separated human populations. …”
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Devenir reine kakataibo. Performance, séduction et genre en Amazonie péruvienne by Magda Helena Dziubinska

“…This performance can be understood through the transformations that are taking place in Amerindian villages, and related closely to education, modes of gender construction and more generally to the new politics of the body. …”
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Retornando sua coleção de material audiovisual: os dilemas de uma antropóloga by Clarice Cohn

“…Analysis is based on Amerindian concepts and practices regarding the learning process—based on listening and watching—, and leads to reflections on indigenous conceptions of knowledge. …”
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Entre la parole et l’image : le système mythopoétique marubo by Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino

“…The transformation and composition relationships of the previous schemes constitute a specialized mythological and poetic knowledge, characterized by transmission and acquisition processes that are connected to the exo-centered Amerindian cosmologies.…”
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Les maniocs et les autres by Laure Emperaire

“…The apparent jumble of the Amerindian abatis of the Rio Negro is a materialization of spacialities, temporalities and social links operating on various scales. …”
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Sisyawaytii tarawaytii : sifflements serpentins et autres voix d’esprits dans le chamanisme quechua du haut Pastaza (Amazonie péruvienne) by Andréa-Luz Gutierrez-Choquevilca

“…The emphasis on the strategic use of acoustic masks in ritual interactions could open new perspectives for research on Amerindian ritual discourses.…”
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Les autochtones invisibles ou comment l’Argentine s’est « blanchie » by Sabine Kradolfer

“…Since the end of the 19th century, in its will to assimilate the Amerindian Mapuche populations to its republican ideology of liberal tradition, the Argentinean state led to their invisibilisation more than their disappearance. …”
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Le choro, musique métisse et originelle : transferts culturels, hybridations et identité culturelle nationale au Brésil (1870-1930) by Alice Boccara

“…It transcends the limits between popular music and art music while having a special place among Brazilian musics, being considered as an original genre, at the roots of the Brazilian musical identity and that condenses its mixed descents – Amerindian, African, European. From the premises of the apparition of the genre (at the end of the 19th century) to the 1930s when the choro had already become a musical genre on its own with its fixed canon and repertoire: within this historical frame, the purpose of this article is to articulate a musicological view (about the questions concerning the dialectical relationship between the fixation of the generic boarders of the genre and its capacity to integrate and to influence new genres and musical languages), along with a historical view about the question of miscegenation and the social valorization of this notion in Brazil. …”
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From the island’s point of view. Warfare and transformation in an Andean vertical archipelago by Tristan Platt

“…Andean warfare is characterized by the same « ontological instability » at the blurred frontier between humans and animals that is found among other Amerindian groups, and elsewhere in the world. Different kinds of shapeshifting during fiestas and warfare, and the reformulation of animal-human frontiers, are seen to be related to different social and historical contexts.…”
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Reprise d’initiative et éducation interculturelle chez les Amérindiens de l’Amazonie brésilienne (Etat d’Amazonas) by Olivier Meunier

“…In Brazil, following the republican process aiming at assimilate the Amerindian populations to the Nation during the 1970-1980, these last were organized to safeguard their territory and their cultural identity, which gave place from the 90’ of the last decade at a generalization of an intercultural school education in the indigenous territories, opening the school with the indigenous sociocultural knowledge. …”
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Les péripéties cynégétiques des Noirs d’Équateur. De l’art de rester humain et chrétien tout en chassant by Armelle Lorcy

“…Finally, conceptions about the realm of the non-human and ideas concerning metamorphosis are compared to Amerindian practices.…”
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Les paramètres évidentiels, inférentiels et modaux appliqués à l’étude de must épistémique by Yves Bardière

“…The major difficulty is that evidentiality is not clearly grammaticalized neither in English nor French, unlike Amerindian languages such as Tuyuca or Bosavi. However new theories have emerged showing that not only modal but also evidential values can be conveyed by modal auxiliaries, especially those expressing an epistemic meaning. …”
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