The celebrated #Aymara #cholitas
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/apr/12/the-only-way-is-up-a-celebration-of-bolivias-indigenous-female-climbers-in-pictures

The word cholita has in the past been used as a pejorative term for the Indigenous Aymara women of Bolivia. But the women in these photographs are reclaiming the word: they are “Cholitas Escaladoras”, or climbing cholitas. In 2019, they summited the 6,961 metre (22,841ft) peak of Mount Aconcagua in Argentina, the highest mountain outside Asia, while wearing traditional dresses and shawls.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/apr/12/the-only-way-is-up-a-celebration-of-bolivias-indigenous-female-climbers-in-pictures

#Bolivia
#indigenous
#women
#climbing
#Aymara
#cholita
@photography

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This evening in London
Everybody welcome, just turn up!
LIVE or ZOOM

Tues Nov 12 18:30 (London UK)
with #DeniseArnold
LIVE @UCLanthropology
And on ZOOM

'Sea shells, women's blood and an Andean bioclimatology of water'

LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW

ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

Denise Arnold explores the mutual rearing practices between Andean populations and water, in its different manifestations, as a key life-giving element in their mountainous habitat. Andean animist ontologies recognise how humans and water flow are constituted mutually, through a dynamic relationality, which extends to other aquatic phenomena, including the sea-shell Spondylus princeps. This knowledge is learned and transmitted between the generations in the rites of passage of adolescent girls and boys, when they learn an interdependence with water, establish relations with water beings, and practice equivalences between their own blood flow and water flow.

Examined in this context are Inka rites of passage, a school ritual focused on learning about water flow, a female rite of passage when women learn to use particular designs and colours in their weavings, and a ritual offering of Spondylus to high mountain shrines. These practices are situated in the emerging discipline of bioclimatology.

Denise, an Anglo-Bolivian anthropologist, directs the Instituto de Lengua y Cultura Aymara, in La Paz, Bolivia. She will be LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW. Please arrive by 6:30pm before doors close. Or join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

HOW COOL IS THIS?

Women in #Bolivia are #KNITTING tiny #occluders ('top hats' to block a hole in the #heart) of ELASTIC METAL, which are then folded up in a catheter, inserted into the body, travel ON THEIR OWN to the heart, then 'pop open' to their proper shape, b/c they 'remember' what shape they are supposed to be.

Old craft meets future #scifi

*faints from coolness of it all*

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-32076070

#Cardiology #PDA #HeartDefects #Indigenous #PatentDuctusArteriosus
#Aymara #LaPaz

United Nations Failed #Indigenous in #Peru: #CopperMining and Electric Vehicles Mean Death

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, October 24, 2023

"Indigenous mothers from the Amazon in Peru told the United Nations that they were being shot by the army from helicopters, their children were being murdered, and they were being stalked home from protests to defend their land from mining.

"The United Nations failed them, refused to make them a priority, reduced their pleas to a series of numbers in their report, and failed to tell the world that the United States government sent its military in June to bolster the illegal regime that was killing them.

"An Indigenous from Peru told the United Nations Human Rights Committee in October that the people were disappointed that the murder of their leaders was not included in the United Nations report."

Full article:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/10/united-nations-failed-indigenous-in.html