Tag: Bolivia
Raw materials, or sacred beings? Lithium extraction puts two worldviews into tension
Mario Orospe Hernández, Arizona State University
Located in the heart of South America, Bolivia contains the largest lithium deposits...
Llamas are having a moment in the US, but they’ve been...
Emily Wakild, Boise State University
With their long eyelashes, banana-shaped ears, upturned mouths and stocky bodies covered with curly wool, llamas look like creatures that...
People’s bodies now run cooler than ‘normal’ – even in the...
Michael Gurven, University of California Santa Barbara and Thomas Kraft, University of California Santa Barbara
Feeling under the weather? Chances are you or your doctor...
How indigenous women revolutionized Bolivian wrestling
Nell Haynes, Georgetown University
Though wrestling is widely regarded as the world’s oldest sport, women have only recently gained a foothold.
And even then, they’ve done...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
