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#Population control In the 1950s and 1960s, much of the attention of eugenicists was focused on the new political interest in planetary population control. A new vocabulary anchored by the prospect of a “population bomb” (the title of Paul Ehrlich’s bestselling 1968 (1/18)
book) emerged as it became clear that the technologies of World War II had improved both life expectancy and in some instances infant mortality. The advent of antibiotics and pesticides, nutritional gains derived from food rationing and more ef f i cient agriculture, (2/18)
and success in minimizing debilitating diseases had added some 15 million to the Earth’s population each year of the war, a striking contrast to the devastating ef f ects of World War I.

That the most signif i cant growth in population was in Asia and Africa amplif i (3/18)
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Imaynallan 👋! ¡Hola! hoy hablaremos sobre la producción cultural en #Quechua. Me parece importante esto, porque generalmente se piensa que como las lenguas indígenas son principalmente usadas en el contexto oral, no hay mayor legado o archivo de las mismas. Llulla! ¡Mentira!
Comencemos con los khipus, artefactos (nudos) usados para la contabilidad durante el imperio Inca. Según el cronista indígena Guamán Poma de Ayala (siglo XVII) y recientemente Sabine Hyland algunos también contenían mensajes “que podrían identificarse como epístolas narrativas”.
Hoy es difícil descifrar Quipus (o Khipus) debido a que no eran artefactos de libre acceso sino sagrados. Los encargados en preservarlos eran khipukamayuq (en #Quechua significa: creadores de Khipus), los cuales fueron asesinados durante la conquista europea [imagen: Guamán Poma]
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