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Indigenous voices: the Bribri clans

In Buenos Aires de Puntarenas, the Bribri people keep the Detso alive: a matrilineal clan system that is the heart of their identity. This report explores how women’s heritage guides social organization and the struggle for land in territories such as Salitre and Cabagra. Marcos Vinicio Fallas Figueroa reports the story in this article created […]

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