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The Narratives and Life Projects of Orientales from Cuba in Puerto Rico and Florida: An Initial Comparative Study
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Blanca Ortiz-Torres
Published: 28 February 2023
... uprooted, their interactions with Puerto Ricans facilitated adaptation and many said they felt Puerto Rican. Ortiz-Torres and Rodríguez-Cancel point to the need for research with a larger sample, which would allow for the documentation of the particularities and subjectivities of migrants from eastern Cuba...
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Afterword: The Contested Terrain of the Gran Chaco
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Gastón Gordillo
Published: 12 October 2021
...-states and by local practices of adaptation and resistance. Argentina Argentine Chaco Bolivia Buenos Aires Argentina Formosa Territory Province Argentina Gordillo Gastón Gran Chaco Natural resources extraction Paraguay Roads bioceanic highway Soybean production Agribusiness and agriculture...
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The Holocene Occupations of Southern Belize
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Keith M. Prufer and Douglas J. Kennett
Published: 14 January 2020
... modifications. The authors, drawing on more than two decades of archaeological research, discuss why studying the long historical trajectories of settlements within a region can provide data about how humans adapt and reorganize over long periods of time and insights into underlying processes of resilience...
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Habitat, Resource, and Subsistence
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James S. Dunbar
Published: 28 June 2016
... biodiversity and the habitats that supported it. In chapter 5, we consider (1) possible habitat disruptions and extinctions caused by iceberg invasions off the South Carolina Coast; (2) animal diet and paleontological morphometrics evidence as it relates to mammal adaptation; (3) mammals as landscape modifiers...
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Voiceover: Anne de Graville's Beau Romant, Boccaccio's Teseida, and Alain Chartier's Belle Dame sans mercy
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Daisy Delogu
Published: 12 October 2021
...This chapter explores Anne de Graville’s Beau Romant , an early sixteenth-century adaptation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Teseida , dedicated to Queen Claude of France. Also the author of a rewriting into rondeaux of Alain Chartier’s famous Belle dame sans mercy ...
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Early Paleoindian Potentials on the Continental Shelf in the Southeastern United States
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James S. Dunbar
Published: 11 June 2019
...) and follow David Webb’s earlier work on his idea for a climatically propitious region that could support animals and plants through the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Dunbar and Thulman further suggest the possibility of a shellfish/marine adaptation by early-Paleoindian-period colonists. They posit...
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Published: 23 September 2012
... and amphibians turtles white tailed deer distribution by time period marine shell access by time savannas Classic Maya Zooarchaeology Environment adaptation Production Within any society there is no doubt that higher-ranked community members have preferential access to higher-valued animal resources...
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Human Resilience in Fluvial Environments in Pre-Hispanic Central Nicaragua
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Irene Torreggiani and others
Published: 05 December 2023
... the pre-Hispanic human settlement and environmental adaptation strategies in RA and in the Mayales River Valley (MRV). The micro-stratigraphic analysis of three excavation profiles, combined with a geoarchaeological survey of the site, demonstrates the occurrence of alluvial events during the settlement...
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Hemingway, Faulkner, and Hawks: The Nexus of Creativity that Generated the Film To Have and Have Not
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Mimi Reisel Gladstein
Published: 01 August 2009
...This chapter examines how the 1944 film adaptation starring Humphrey Bogart and
directed by Howard Hawks, from a screenplay coauthored by William Faulkner, imposed a
patriotic plot upon the book's proletarian politics. It concludes with the theoretical
basis for the thesis that To Have ...