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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| 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 |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.flacsoandes.edu.ec:10469/8102 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10469/8102 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | DESECHOS AGUA PUEBLOS INDÍGENAS PANAMÁ ISLA GUNA (PANAMÁ) DESPERDICIOS DOMÉSTICOS TURISMO |
| Sumario: | 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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