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A Collaborative Exploration of Mapuche Medicine as a Form of Resistance against Chilean-Imposed Westernization

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2025-May-24
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The Mapuche are an Indigenous nation who have historically lived in southern Chile and Argentina, where their ancestral territory, Wallmapu, is located. Although the Mapuche largely succeeded in resisting Spanish conquest, the establishment of the Chilean Republic in 1810 and...

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A Collaborative Exploration of Mapuche Medicine as a Form of Resistance against Chilean-Imposed Westernization

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2025-May-24
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The Mapuche are an Indigenous nation who have historically lived in southern Chile and Argentina, where their ancestral territory, Wallmapu, is located. Although the Mapuche largely succeeded in resisting Spanish conquest, the establishment of the Chilean Republic in 1810 and...

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The Bitter Cost of Sweetness: Terricide, Extractivism, and the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemic in El Salvador's Sugar Cane Industry

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2025-April-30
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Chronic Kidney Disease of non-traditional causes is a major public health crisis in El Salvador, a leading global producer of sugarcane. The disease disproportionately affects agricultural workers without prior histories of diabetes or hypertension. This project theorizes that the epidemic...

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