Elise Hogan reports for The Daily Princetonian: A year ago, the world seemed to be waiting for Mia Beams ’24, Chiara Vilna-Santos ’24, and Lauren “Flo” Fahlberg ’24. Tired of traditional education, the three freshly minted high school graduates resolved to spend a year learning outside the classroom, and the University’s Novogratz Bridge Year Program…
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Bolivia won the South America’s Leading Cultural Destination 2017
Bolivian Thoughts opinion: Bolivia has certainly lots to offer to the world tourism, our amazing biodiversity, our rich heritage that reflects on all the differences we have among each other, which makes us a great place to visit. So, just to be clear: these awards came out as a result of what we are, not…
Tsimané of Bolivia: Parents in a Remote Amazon Village Barely Talk to Their Babies—and the Kids Are Fine
Dana G. Smith writes for Scientific American: BEHAVIOR & SOCIETY Parents in a Remote Amazon Village Barely Talk to Their Babies—and the Kids Are Fine Ignoring a Western child-rearing practice does not seem to matter for the Tsimané of Bolivia In 1995 a landmark study (pdf) found that children whose families were on welfare heard…
Bolivia and the trades of yesterday
Ivone Juárez reports for Pagina Siete: The trades of yesterday in La Paz Most of them disappeared: the dairy women did not walk the streets, nor did the ice-cream parlors with the cart full of photographs or the chamuñero, who was tempted with his marshmallows at the exit of the cinemas and the theater. One…
More than 20 writers present their works
Pagina Siete reports: More than 20 writers present their works The program La Paz Reads will open the curtain with the presentation of more than 20 works, among short stories, poems and novels, by writers from La Paz, El Alto, Cochabamba, Oruro, Sucre and Potosí. The activity, which will be held today [04/21/2017] from 15:00,…
High in the Bolivian Andes, a tour of Aymara sacred sites
From MailOnLine: High in the Bolivian Andes, a tour of Aymara sacred sites By ASSOCIATED PRESS EL ALTO, Bolivia (AP) — At a gasp-inducing 13,000 feet-plus (4,000 meters-plus) above sea level, a post marks the spot where Andean gods are said to dwell at the foot of towering, snow-covered peaks. A group of “amautas,” or…
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