Sounding indigenous: authenticity in Bolivian music performance

Creative pragmatism: competency and aesthetics in Bolivian indigenous music video (VCD) production

Constructing community in the digital home studio: Carnival, creativity and indigenous music video production in the Bolivian Andes

This paper examines issues surrounding the production of a Carnival music video VCD in the home studio of the Bolivian indigenous (originario) musician and cultural activist Gregorio Mamani. On the one hand, continuities with rural productive practices suggest a model for the ‘home studio’ more resembling a ‘cottage industry’ than the kind of ‘isolated’ activity separate from family life that P...

Liking for happy- and sad-sounding music: Effects of exposure

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Inflammatory gene variants in the Tsimane, an indigenous Bolivian population with a high infectious load.

The Tsimane of lowland Bolivia are an indigenous forager-farmer population living under conditions resembling pre-industrial European populations, with high infectious morbidity, high infection and inflammation, and shortened life expectancy. Analysis of 917 persons ages 5 to 60+ showed that allele frequencies of 9 SNPs examined in the apolipoprotein E (apoE), C-reactive protein (CRP), and inte...

Use of medicinal plants and pharmaceuticals by indigenous communities in the Bolivian Andes and Amazon.

OBJECTIVE To investigate, by means of household surveys, the use of medicinal plants and pharmaceuticals in Apillapampa, a large Andean community of Quechua peasants, and in six small communities of Yuracaré-Trinitario "slash-and-burn" cultivators of the National Park Isiboro-Secure (the NPIS) in the Bolivian Amazon. METHODS A total of 12% of households in Apillapampa and nearly all household...