Bolivian Politics

Epistemo-Political Decolonization: Reflections from the Brazilian and Bolivian Cases towards an Intercultural Politics

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com an agonistic relationship between the legal, administrative construction spaces and the mythical, territorial, symbolic universes of indigenous groups (Bolivia) and quilombola groups (Brazil). The pertinence of such comparative potential is justified here, in that the two experiences seem to reveal different potentials of dialogue between these dime...

Bolivian Wrestlers in Skirts

HPV in Bolivian Amazonian Women

Cervical cancer is the most common malignancy among women in the third world (Parkin et al., 1992). Eighty percent of the newly diagnosed cases in the world occur in developing countries of Central and South America, the Caribbean, Southern and Eastern Africa and Southern Asia (Pisani, 1993). The annual incidence of cervical cancer in Latin America and the Caribbean is 100 per 100,000 women age...

Intentionality, Politics, And Religion

The idea that intentionality is the distinctive mark of the mental or that only mental phenomena have intentionality emerged in the philosophical tradition after Franz Brentano. Much of contemporary philosophy is dedicated to a rejection of the view that mental phenomena have original intentionality. In other words, main strands of contemporary philosophy seek to naturalize intentionality of th...

Re-emergence of Bolivian hemorrhagic fever.

In July and August 1994, an outbreak of Bolivian hemorrhagic fever (BHF) occurred among an extended family living in the city of Magdalena (1994 population estimates 5,300), Itenez Province, Department of Beni, Bolivia (see map). BHF, caused by the Machupo arenavilus, is known to be endemic only in Bolivia. The principal reservoir of the Machupo virus is the small rodent Calomys callosus. This ...