Trash in the Water: An Indigenous People Confronts Waste

The guna or kuna, an indigenous people of Panama, suffer from the same waste problems as the rest of the world, with the added complications caused by life on tiny, crowded coral islands. The Guna, originally mainland dwellers, moved offshore in the 19th century, thus escaping mosquitoes, snakes, an...

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Autores: Howe, James, McDonald, Libby
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:Ecuador
Institución:Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales
Repositorio:Repositorio Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales
Idioma:inglés
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AGUA
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ISLA GUNA (PANAMÁ)
DESPERDICIOS DOMÉSTICOS
TURISMO
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title Trash in the Water: An Indigenous People Confronts Waste
spellingShingle Trash in the Water: An Indigenous People Confronts Waste
Howe, James
DESECHOS
AGUA
PUEBLOS INDÍGENAS
PANAMÁ
ISLA GUNA (PANAMÁ)
DESPERDICIOS DOMÉSTICOS
TURISMO
title_short Trash in the Water: An Indigenous People Confronts Waste
title_full Trash in the Water: An Indigenous People Confronts Waste
title_fullStr Trash in the Water: An Indigenous People Confronts Waste
title_full_unstemmed Trash in the Water: An Indigenous People Confronts Waste
title_sort Trash in the Water: An Indigenous People Confronts Waste
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Howe, James
McDonald, Libby
author Howe, James
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McDonald, Libby
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv DESECHOS
AGUA
PUEBLOS INDÍGENAS
PANAMÁ
ISLA GUNA (PANAMÁ)
DESPERDICIOS DOMÉSTICOS
TURISMO
topic DESECHOS
AGUA
PUEBLOS INDÍGENAS
PANAMÁ
ISLA GUNA (PANAMÁ)
DESPERDICIOS DOMÉSTICOS
TURISMO
description The guna or kuna, an indigenous people of Panama, suffer from the same waste problems as the rest of the world, with the added complications caused by life on tiny, crowded coral islands. The Guna, originally mainland dwellers, moved offshore in the 19th century, thus escaping mosquitoes, snakes, and the diseases spread by mosquitoes while facilitating access to foreign trading boats. Today, of the forty-nine villages in the autonomous indigenous reserve called Guna Yala, all but ten are located on islands along the northeast Caribbean coast, with populations ranging in size from a few hundred to several thousand.
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