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Ecuador is constitutionally defined as an intercultural and plurinational State; however, this legal architecture coexists with persistent institutional structures that continue to position ancestral knowledge at the margins of higher education. This article examines the strategic role of Ecuadorian higher education institutions in strengthening ethnoeducation, safeguarding territories, and ensuring the intergenerational transmission of knowledge, while...

Through a critical review of conventional methods for analysing qualitative materials, which often rely on linear and deductive coding schemes, I propose a methodological alternative based on the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI) tools and models to demonstrate the interpretive advantages for the social sciences through the use of multiple discourse topographies. Indeed, the use...

In this article I argue that the so-called "threats" to Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) in Latin America are not exogenous accidents befalling culture, but symptoms of a design governance that has stopped thinking of itself as a situated symbolic system. Drawing on field observation of cultural management in Colombia and comparative regional literature, I identify...