The coca plant has been cultivated in South America for thousands of years and used for a variety of ritual, spiritual, and ...

In Incan mythology, Mama Koka was the god of the coca plant which originally grew from her torn apart body. Today, coca ...

There’s a soulful power to the sounds drifting across the Andean highlands, where steep mountains and deep valleys have shaped centuries of musical heritage.

Long having been considered the ‘US’s backyard,’ Latin America is the crucible of anti-imperialist struggle – yet with the rise of China as an economic and ideological counterweight to Washington, we ...

By Timothy J. Killeen The Amazon is renowned for its cultural diversity, particularly the ethnic diversity of its Indigenous ...

Jack Glagola: It’s no surprise that you’re a Virginia icon, a Black icon, a man of many historic firsts. First Black Virginia ...

(SPAN 0220 or placement) 3 hrs. lect./disc. Quechua and Aymara people of the Andes, and the indigenous nations from the Lowlands have been key in grassroots movements in Bolivia in the 21st century.

In the Arizona desert, researchers are uncovering extraordinary details about the peoples who have inhabited this land since ...

The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to ...

As an archaeologist, you picture yourself traveling to some remote location, digging into the ground, and returning to a lab ...

I n 1996, the New York-based civil rights organization known as UPROSE was struggling. Founded by Puerto Rican activists, the ...

This is a crisis-driven tale set on a single night in San Francisco, just after a tech company, MindMesh, has dismissed its ...