Perspectives rituelles dans les Plaines et sur la Côte Nord-Ouest by Klaus Hamberger

“…Via a transformational analysis of the historical Plains and Northwest Coast seasonal rituals, the article seeks to explore the dynamic logic of North Amerindian social space. We shall endeavor to show that the architecture of the « Sun Dance » and the « Winter Ceremonial » not only served to create a virtual space centered on the polarity between the positions of predator (above) and prey (below), but also to invert these positions by a transformation of perspectives. …”
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Produits de terroir ou système agricole ? Patrimonialisation de l’alimentation en Amazonie brésilienne by Esther Katz, Lucia Hussak van Velthem

“…The Amerindians of the northwestern Brazilian Amazon cultivate a large variety of plants. …”
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The Great Arab Revolt, Palestine and a Phoenicianist Civilizing Mission: Transregional Debates in the Mexican Mahjar Press by Camila Pastor de Maria Campos

“…Notables mobilized modernist Nahda narratives to appropriate ancient Phoenician colonization of the Mediterranean, situating Arab migrants in Mexico as partners to local Spanish descent (criollo) elites in a common civilizing effort over mestizos and Amerindian populations.…”
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The role of Beringia in human adaptation to Arctic conditions based on results of genomic studies of modern and ancient populations by B. A. Malyarchuk

“…Meanwhile, the analysis of the existing hypotheses about the selection of some genetic variants in the Beringian ancestors of the Amerindians in connection with adaptation to the Arctic conditions (for example, in the FADS, ACTN3, EDAR genes) shows the ambiguity of the testing results, which may be due to the loss of some traces of the “Beringian” adaptation in the gene pools of modern Native Americans. …”
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The Ka’ulayawaa festivals among the Wayùu. Exploring continuities and variations in forms, meanings and contexts through ethnographic sources by Alessandro Mancuso

“…In this paper I review and compare the main sources of information about the ka’ulayawaa festivals among the Wayùu, an Amerindian people inhabiting in the semiarid Guajira peninsula (Northern Colombia and Venezuela). …”
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Nouveaux apports sur l’archéologie du littoral de Guyane : de la préhistoire à la conquête by Martijn M. van den Bel

“…Furthermore, new elements concerning the Late Ceramic Age renew certain aspects, notably concerning funerary practices, ceramic complexes and food consumption of the prehistoric Amerindians.…”
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Danser et être dansé by Maria Acselrad

“…The caboclinhos are carnival gatherings made up of men, women and children dressed up as Amerindians armed with bows and arrows, parading through the outlying districts of towns in the Pernambuco region. …”
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Temps, progrès et races dans les Lumières écossaises by Silvia Sebastiani

“…Although this historical method meant that the ‘savage’ could become ‘civil’ by means of progress, the very principle of comparison raised two other problems : first, the problem of the social and cultural distance between different societies; second, the question of the unequal progress. Why had Amerindians remained in the ‘savage’ stage of hunting ? …”
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Genetic markers on the distribution of ancient marine hunters in Priokhotye by B. A. Malyarchuk

“…A phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial genomes belonging to the rare haplogroup C1a, found in populations of the Far East and Japan, but phylogenetically related to the C1-haplogroups of the Amerindians, was carried out. The results of the analysis showed that the divergence of mitochondrial lineages within the C1a haplogroup occurred in the range from 7.9 to 6.6 thousand years ago, and the age of the Japanese branch of the C1a haplogroup is approximately 5.2 thousand years. …”
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