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Colombia, como país multiétnico y pluricultural, tiene como reto incluir en todas lasfacetas de la vida de su población el reconocimiento de la diversidad. Pero si bien se cumplen 30 años de la Constitución Política del 1991, llevar a la práctica tal sueño es un trabajo que todavía se sigue haciendo. Este libro, por tanto, está encaminado en esa vía, porque presenta la propuesta de un modelo de salud intercultural para el pueblo ette ennaka con el que busca señalar su camino de bienestar físico, espiritual y emocional. La investigación surgió como respuesta a la poca información de la situación en salud de los pueblos indígenas y, sobre todo, para plantear alternativas de c...
The Latin American Eco-Cultural Reader is an anthology of literary and cultural texts about the natural world, spanning the early colonial period to the present.
Nutrition and Bariatric Surgery discusses nutritional deficiencies and requirements that are often present with diverse bariatric techniques as main mechanisms for weight loss. In addition, the book presents strategies for early detection and supplementation in order to avoid the appearance of deficiency diseases. Finally, the summarizes protocols for the optimal nutritional management of patients undergoing bariatric surgery. Bariatric surgeons, gastroenterologists, endocrinologists, general practitioners, nutritionists, dietitians and nurses specialized in nutritional management will find this resource especially useful. Discusses preoperative nutritional requirements and deficiencies surrounding bariatric surgery Presents preoperative diets, including LCD, VLCD and commercial supplements Contains nutritional recommendations after restrictive, mixed and malabsorptive procedures
Across three decades the American artist and cinematographer, Arthur Jafa (b. 1960, Tupelo, USA) has developed a dynamic, multidisciplinary practice ranging from films and installations to lecture-performances and happenings that tackle, challenge and question prevailing cultural assumptions about identity and race.Jafa's work is driven by a recurrent question: how might one identify and develop a specifically Black visual aesthetics equal to the 'power, beauty and alienation' of Black music in American culture?Building upon Jafa's image-based practice, this enormous new volume comprises a series of visual sequences that are cut and juxtaposed across its pages. The artist has been collecting...
A co-publication of the World Bank, International Finance Corporation and Oxford University Press
"This volume explores the roots of traditional Oaxacan food, how it has evolved from its Mixtec origins, and how some traditions exist today; the essays included were written by archaeologists, ethnohistorians, anthropologists, and others with an interest in traditional Oaxacan food"--
The Art of Nigerian Women by Chukwuemeka Bosah is a tightly packaged tome--an astonishingly delightful companion to a meme that was broached in the author's A Celebration of Modern Nigerian Art: 101 Nigerian Artists, published in 2010. In the current volume, Bosah marshals the intellectual capacity of some of the best scholars and curatorial impresarios in the field to contextualize the diversity of works of the artists featured. This work is a feat that must be acknowledged by students of Nigerian art for a number of reasons. First, this book contributes significantly to our knowledge of Nigerian art by its lasered focus on Nigerian women. Second, the author brings to the fore, in the proce...
A searching, interdisciplinary, critical consideration of the cultural, economic, and environmental ramifications of Britain's informal imperialism in South America