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Territory, indigenous education and cultural maintenance: The case of the Arakmbut of South-Eastern Peru

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Has carried out field work at different periods over the last fifteen years with the Harakmbut of South-eastern Peru. Since 1984 she has worked with the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs in Copenhagen and Oxford, in particular with indigenous self-development projects in Latin America. In 1994 she completed a Ph.D. at the University of London on intercultural and bilingual education, and since then has been working with the Reading (UK)-based non-governmental organization, Education for Development.

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Aikman, S. Territory, indigenous education and cultural maintenance: The case of the Arakmbut of South-Eastern Peru. Prospects 25, 593–608 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02334138

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