Browsing by Subject "Venezuela"
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Inhabiting the City: Citizenship and Democracy in Caracas
(2010)This dissertation, Inhabiting the City: Citizenship and Democracy in Caracas, asks how multiple modalities of citizenship arise in order to facilitate working-class and middle-class strategies to negotiate formal and informal ... -
POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF NATIONALIZATION OF OIL AND NATURAL GAS INDUSTRY IN LATIN AMERICA
(2007-05)Nationalization is a particular type of organizational structure where the state or nation controls the industry as opposed to private companies or multinational organizations. If one imagines a continuum of organizational ... -
Yopo, ethnicity and social change: a comparative analysis of Piaroa and Cuiva yopo uset.
(Journal of psychoactive drugs, 2011-01)Most Orinocoan ethnic groups, including the Cuiva and the Piaroa, use yopo, a hallucinogenic snuff derived from the seeds of the Anadenanthera peregrina tree. This study contrasts Piaroa and Cuiva attitudes toward and uses ...