Abstract

IUDICA, Celia et al. Las comunidades afrodescendientes de Nor Yungas, Bolivia: una aproximación a su estudio antropogenético. Runa [online]. 2014, vol.35, n.2, pp.21-34. ISSN 1851-9628.

This paper presents an anthropogenetic study of African descent populations in the region of Nor Yungas, Bolivia. Emphasis is placed on the socio-historical frame, the methodology that was built with communities and participants, and the importance of returning results to the community. Our proposal was to bring a scientific tool that would be a contribution to the historical-cultural reconstruction of ancestral roots undertaken by the Afro-Bolivian communities for the last two decades, in pursuit of a greater visibility as a nation in the Plurinational State of Bolivia. Uniparental inheritance of genetic markers (mtDNA and Y chromosome STRs) were determined in order to estimate the geographic origin of the population. The results show that communities studied have a strong African descent, with a minoritary process of interbreeding with Native American and European.

Keywords : Afro-Bolivians; Anthropogenetics; Uniparental Genetic Markers; Geographic Origin; Nor Yungas.

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