Situated at the junction of historic times, Taiwan’s Iron Age is considered the key to understanding the origin and history of the island’s aboriginal peoples. With this perspective, this thesis focuses on the Iron Age in Northeast and North Taiwan through a research into the affiliations among cera...

In this work we presented the transcript of a document written by the legal cura Pedro Juan Andreu, entitled ‘Annulliates the Historical Mission of San Estevan de los Indios Lules 1744’. The manuscript is part of the novel De Angelis Collection, acquired and preserved by the National Library of Rio...

Este estudo objetivou realizar uma revisão integrativa acerca dos estudos que identificaram a influência da pandemia na saúde de indígenas brasileiros, a fim de agrupar estas informações e gerar dados pertinentes à uma análise qualitativa. Foram realizadas buscas nas bases de dados Scielo, Pubmed e...

This article asks about the capacity of Colombian transitional justice to integrate the voice of ethnic groups and their diverse truths into the building of peace and national historical memory. The truth of marginalised groups is thus counteracting the stories of majority groups. The instruments of...

International audience The indigenous population, with their rich culture and heritage, represent an important component of Indian and Himalayan civilizations. Politics of Ethnicity in India, Neapal and China reviews the social, cultural and political processes that have shaped these indigenous soci...

In this article, we will analyse the importance of ethnicity in permanent domesticity — a sector of employment in which Indian people are overrepresented — and how socio-cultural differences between ethnic groups organise the labour market and relations between employers and employees in Mexico. Usi...

Re-infestation of houses and peri-homes by T. infestans in the Great Chaco region of Argentina represents a significant public health problem. Between 2008 and 2009, research was carried out in the region, using an eco-health approach, into the social, economic, health and ecological conditions invo...

Polarization measures, that are used in examining the empirical relationship between ethnic divisions and violent conflict, heavily rely on mechanisms of group identification and often use somewhat arbitrary divisions of a society into ethnic groups. In this paper we construct two new measures of po...

The idea of diversity has become, in the face of the growing affirmation of identities, a significant phenomenon especially in societies from European colonialism, where groups and individuals reaffirm their local particularities, ethnic, racial, cultural or religious identities, drawing the attenti...

The volume contains articles concerning the influence of <i>Latinitas</i> in the territory now occupied by Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine and Belarus’. The articles, all published in English, range from history to literature and to cultural history and the history of ideas. They analyze the issue of bui...

This sociolinguistic study of the speeches of three French-Ethiopian couples is rooted in an approach of individual bilingualism seen as a social practice. The six surveyed live on a daily basis from verbal interactions marked by the asymmetry of the language repertoires and the plurality of languag...

This paper shows how ethnic diversity in a context of weak property rights enforcement can result in market segmentation. The paper analyzes how contract enforcement problems affect the joint decision of partner and contract choice by landlords in the land rental market in Guatemala. The empirical m...

This study aims to identify and analyse the causal effects of various socio-economic and demographic factors on the satisfaction with the lives of Medellín households. To this end, we estimate a logistical model, categorising the explanatory variables into two groups: the inherent features and the c...

Summary: This article seeks to briefly discuss the arguments of the debate on the system of black quotas in university education, which was the subject of intense debate over the last decade and the decision of the Supreme Court of Brasileña in the action for failure to fulfil obligations by the Fun...

This thesis examines the way in which the multiple cultures and identities that people are likely to summon up during an encounter influence the nature of their social interactions. It draws on the epistemological heritage of symbolic interactionism, rather than that of cross-cultural psychology, th...

This study examines the effect of divorce and widowhood on women's living conditions using the data from a biographical retrospective survey. An analysis using linear regression with random intercepts showed that divorce or death of a spouse has a negative impact on women's standard of living, an ef...

International audience Consensus is growing that the application of the western model of the Nation-State in post-crisis contexts is problematic. Rather than on methods of State reform or State-building, the focus of this volume is on the model of the State and its transformation. While internationa...

South Tyrol is a small, mountainous area located in the central Alps. Despite its modest geographical size, it has come to represent a success story in the protection of ethnic minorities in Europe. When Austrian South Tyrol was given to Italy in 1919, about 200,000 German and Ladin speakers became...

Why do multi-ethnic states treat various ethnic groups differently? How do ethnic groups respond to these state policies? We argue that interstate relations and ethnic group perceptions about the relative strength of competing states are important—but neglected—factors in accounting for the variatio...

Namibian territory has been structured along its colonial history on a landlocked basis. Successive powers, particularly the apartheid regime, have consistently imposed their territorial ideology based on the idea of partitioning and separating African populations, both at country level and in urban...

This article shows that the colours of the skin have a history, with a particular focus on the discussions of medieval savants on black skin. The vocabulary study first shows the ambiguity of the niger adjective, an ambiguity related to the coexistence of, or even confusion between, two different co...

Colombians live together in a context characterised by ethnic and cultural diversity. However, local, regional and national identities are built in unfavourable conditions, particularly in the neighbourhoods of cities where more and more people and families displaced by violence are home. Most of th...

The manifestations of globalisation in the cultural context are more complex and controversial in that they express two dicotonic processes: a social movement that invokes the recovery of traditional ethnic and cultural identities, underpinned by a culturalist aspect of globalisation; and cultural p...

After a brief analysis of the birth rate, language transfers, endogamy rates and inter-provincial migration movements, the author takes into account the impact of major global demographic trends on the future of the French language in North America. He concluded that, in order to secure this future,...