Ethical relations, a connecting theme in Vilhjálmur Árnason’s work on Icelandic sagas, public deliberation, and encounters between patients and professionals by Henrik Lerner

“…Keywords: dialogue ethics, one health approaches, Indigenous peoples, bioethics, interdisciplinarity, ethics in the Icelandic sagas, medical ethics, literary analysis, multicultural communities …”
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¿Una nación en bosquejos? Procesos de identificación aymara en Chile durante el periodo transicional, 1990-1993 by Cristina Oyarzo

“…Objective/context: During the 1990s, the Aymara people actively participated in discussions on the status of indigenous peoples. This experience reinforced identification processes that gained renewed strength with the national democratic opening and the international recognition of indigenous rights. …”
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Seeking Culturally Safe Developmental Evaluation: Supporting the Shift in Services for Indigenous Children by Natasha Blanchet-Cohen, Pascale Geoffroy, Luz Luz Marina Hoyos

“…Background: Evaluation methods based on western frameworks that disregard Indigenous peoples’ worldviews and are imposed and implemented by outsiders are problematic for Indigenous communities. …”
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Histórias de índios entre assimilação e resistência: O rastro do jaguar by Rita Olivieri-Godet

“…The analysis emphasizes the option to recover historical memory of two indigenous peoples, the Botocudos and the Guarani, confronting the divergent projects of indigenous nations and Brazilian nation.…”
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Distribution of the arctic variant of the CPT1A gene in indigenous populations of Siberia by B. A. Malyarchuk, M. V. Derenko, G. A. Denisova, A. N. Litvinov

“…Population screening of the Arctic variant, which has arisen due to the G > A mutation at locus rs80356779 in the CPT1A gene, has been performed for the first time among indigenous peoples of Siberia (Chukchi, Koryaks, Evens, Evenks, Yakuts, Buryats and Altaians) and East Asia (Koreans). …”
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Subjectivity as Treatment: Neurosis and the Roots of Contemporary Ethnographic Conservation by Daniel Cull

“…This paper explores an imagined ‘origin story’ for ethnographic conservation; exploring the relationships between museums, conservators, indigenous peoples, and ‘ethnographic collections’. Tracing the ‘conservation idea’ from its origins in a state of neurosis to our contemporary post-modern condition, the paper aims to highlight the process through which wounds are being healed and museums along with the profession of conservation are being re-imagined. …”
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Espaços da alegria: imagens Guarani e Kaiowá (ou os povos indígenas contra o ódio do Estado brasileiro) by Juliana Grasiéli Bueno Mota, Jones Dari Goettert, Valentim Pires

“…Kaiowá and Guarani peoples create spaces of joy as a counterpoint to hatred against indigenous peoples. “Choças Caiuá”, hands weaving a caraguatá hammock, a bread oven became into a toyhouse and a story in a neo-Pentecostal church are expressed here as spaces of affection and hapiness, making the present moments of yesterday and today as experiences under that becoming. …”
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Espace urbain et échanges chez les Ye’kuana à Boa Vista, Roraima (Amazonie brésilienne) by Elaine Moreira

“…The circulation of people and their building of contacts’ networks are analysed as related to their entry strategies into new labour markets linked to education and health public policies for indigenous peoples in Brazil. Their return to home villages with a paid job, as well as the circulation of food products between villages and town, are also analysed in this context, where family cares between relatives remain present, as needed.…”
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L’expansion du secteur sucro-énergétique en territoires indigènes dans le sud du Mato Grosso do Sul-Brésil. by Marine Dubos-Raoul

“…In particular, the region of Dourados is a region with a strong indigenous population, which witnessed the loss of its territories during the 20th century, giving rise to conflict between indigenous peoples and rural producers. Thus, the arrival of the sugarcane industry reactivates old tensions and tends to redefine the strategies of indigenous struggles for the claim of their tekoha (Indigenous Territory).…”
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Interdire, documenter, patrimonialiser. Les chants kapiwaya sous le regard colonial et post-colonial (Nord-Ouest de l’Amazonie, de 1883 à nos jours) by Emilio Frignati

“…Although these ways of giving shape to the songs and dances have in common the occultation of the indigenous point of view on the kapiwaya, they become an arena where the political recognition of indigenous peoples is played out.…”
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Da biopolítica à necropolítica contra os povos indígenas durante a ditadura militar brasileira (1964-1985) by Rodrigo Alvarenga, Elston Américo

“…Considering the violations of the human rights of indigenous peoples during the military dictatorship period in Brazil, the present study aims to analyze such violations from the point of view of biopolitics, considering their development in the perspectives of Foucault, Agamben, and Mbembe, in order to demonstrate that the genocidal and ethnocidal practices of that period do not only derive from an exposition to death related to state racism or the typification of slaughterable life, but also consist in a deliberate practice of making die, which brings Brazilian indigenous politics of the period closer to a necropolitics.…”
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Las prácticas indígenas de pesca en la Amazonia, según la descripción de Spix y Martius by Pablo Diener

“…In their books, these scientists applied to link their works on animal and plant taxonomy with the studies upon indigenous peoples’ practices. In this context, a verbal and iconographic description dealing with fishing among the Indians of Brazilian Amazonia was published along with an icthyology treaty. …”
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The Epidemiology of Hepatitis C in a Canadian Indigenous Population by Julia Uhanova, Robert B Tate, Douglas J Tataryn, Gerald Y Minuk

“…BACKGROUND An estimated 1% to 1.9% of North Americans are infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV). Although Indigenous peoples are considered to bear the highest burden, there are only limited data regarding the demographic features and epidemiology of hepatitis C in this population.…”
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Abuse or Slavery? A Look at Practices of Debt Peonage from the 19th-Century Philippines by Carolina Hiribarren Cardoen

“…It illustrates the diversity of work experiences imposed on Indigenous peoples. Debt peonage involved a large part of colonial society and could result in a variety of situations, ranging from the imposition of excessive interest rates to what some scholars have considered slavery-like conditions. …”
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What Place Takes Place in Jordan Abel’s The Place of Scraps ? by Claire Omhovère

“…Jordan Abel’s The Place of Scraps (2013) addresses the interrogations faced by those who grew up deprived of the language, beliefs and memories of their ancestors as a result of the cultural genocide perpetrated against the Indigenous peoples of North America to whom his first collection of poems is dedicated. …”
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The Gender Order in Sumak Kawsay and Suma Qamaña. A Look at the Current Debates in Bolivia and Ecuador by Silvia Vega Ugalde

“…To respond, I enquire into the positions that the representatives of the indigenous peoples, of state organisms, and of feminist organizations adopt in both countries. …”
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The old custom of protecting oneself from the market. Ethnography of an ‘economic process’ among the Nahuas of Huasteca by Claudio Espinoza Araya

“… Starting from the ethnographic record of an economic process which occurred in a Nahua communityin Mexico, this article seeks to explore some of the contemporary complexities which accompany the courseof the indigenous peoples of the continent. The problem is addressed by recovering certain elements ofclassic economic anthropology and is centred on the interaction which arises when a micro-credit programmeis introduced into an indigenous community. …”
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Soul-foods as pharmaka: female bodies and poisons in the Upper Rio Negro by Pedro Lolli, Geraldo Andrello

“…In this article, we explore the origins, properties, and ritual uses of a series of psychoactive substances among indigenous peoples of the Upper Rio Negro. Setting out from the mythical genesis of tobacco, coca, paricá, and caapi (ayahuasca), we examine the relationship between these substances and diverse aspects of female bodies and their reproductive powers, suggesting that these psychoactives can be conceived as pharmaka in the classic sense of the term, acting both to increase a person’s vital force and/or to harm and kill. …”
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Language documentation and revitalization among the Siona of the Putumayo, Colombia: the potential of digitization for the social life of ethnographic material by Esther Jean Langdon

“…Finally, the paper examines the differences between indigenous expectations of audio recordings and those of the anthropologist, indicating that digitization fixes, decontextualizes and recontextualizes oral literature within the current political context in which indigenous peoples seek to identify cultural patrimony in defense of their rights.…”
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A sociobiodiversidade como estratégia para o desenvolvimento sustentável no Sudeste do Pará, Brasil by Bernardo Tomchinsky, Felipe Fernando da Silva Siqueira, Jeronimo da Silva e Silva

“…Southeast Pará is part of a complex ethnic and environmental territory in the Eastern Amazon, with a long process of occupation by indigenous peoples, accompanied by migrants and other traditional peoples and communities. …”
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