These three Latin-American populations can provide an interesting indication about how the regional socioeconomic conditions and intensity of ecological pressures by pathogens may modulate the function of height as an informative sexually selected trait of health and individual condition in each sex. There...
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Latin American art, artistic traditions that developed in Mesoamerica, Central America, and South America after contact with the Spanish and the Portuguese beginning in 1492 and 1500, respectively, and continuing to the present. Read more about Latin Ame
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Latin American dance Written by Susan V. Cashion Senior Lecturer in Dance, Stanford University. Susan V. Cashion Fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gaine...
Napoleon’s intervention in Spain in 1808 had plunged that country into civil war and released its American colonies from the control of the central government. In 1810 a town meeting of prominent citizens in Buenos Aires set up an autonomous government (or junta) to administer the Viceroyalty ...
Folk art - Latin America, Crafts, Decorative: The different character of Latin American folk art may be ascribed in part to the modification of an indigenous culture by contact with a more self-aware culture. The settlers on the eastern seaboard of North
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Richard Crashaw was an English poet known for religious verse of vibrant stylistic ornamentation and ardent faith. The son of a zealous, learned Puritan minister, Crashaw was educated at the University of Cambridge. In 1634, the year of his graduation, h