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The state of knowledge of freshwater resources in the U.S. Virgin Islands: Data scarcity and implications

JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association, Volume 60, Issue 6, Page 1270-1292, December 2024.
Abstract Like many small island communities, the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the U.S., is naturally freshwater scarce. In recent decades, rapid land development in the USVI has increased water demand considerably, exerting extra pressure on freshwater resources.
Brittany V. Lancellotti, David A. Hensley   +1 more
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Iñapari (Peru) - Language Snapshot

Language Documentation and Description, 2020
Iñapari is an Arawak language spoken by four siblings in the village of Sabaluyoc along the Las Piedras River in the department of Madre de Dios, Peru. In catalogs and other literature, Iñapari is often incorrectly classified as being (possibly) extinct.
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Substance use in Guyana: Echoes of the colonial past

The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 390-417, December 2024.
Abstract The impact of intoxicating substances both licit and illicit has been integral to expressions of colonial power and the control of colonised populations, including in Caribbean societies. Historically, licensing laws and carceral institutions were used to discipline workers, and the ongoing criminalisation of certain drugs illustrates the ...
Tammy C. Ayres, Kellie Moss, Queenela Cameron   +2 more
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Bayesian phylogeography of the Arawak expansion in lowland South America

, 2011
Phylogenetic inference based on language is a vital tool for tracing the dynamics of human population expansions. The timescale of agriculture-based expansions around the world provides an informative amount of linguistic change ideal for reconstructing ...
Robert S. Walker, Lincoln A. Ribeiro
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Migrantes, desterrados, intrusos. Navegando la frontera amazónica entre Venezuela y Colombia

Confluenze, 2017
Transformation is one of the main aspects that, since the mythological opening of the Maipure-Arawak world, have been describing the Northwestern Amazonia.
María Vutova
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Assessment of environmental water strategies for improving fringing vegetation health by modelling vegetation condition in a connected floodplain lakes system

Ecohydrology, Volume 17, Issue 4, June 2024.
Abstract Across the globe, environmental water has been allocated with the purpose of preserving the health and vitality of floodplain vegetation. However, the influences of environmental water volume and environmental water delivery strategies have not been studied widely because of shortage of on‐ground monitoring data.
Chunying Wu, J. Angus Webb, Michael J. Stewardson   +2 more
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Tello (Julio C.). Arawak (Fragmento de linguistica indigena sudamericana) [Arawak (Fragment de linguistique indigène sud-américaine)]. Lima, 1913.

, 1919
Rivet Paul. Tello (Julio C.). Arawak (Fragmento de linguistica indigena sudamericana) [Arawak (Fragment de linguistique indigène sud-américaine)]. Lima, 1913. In: Journal de la Société des Américanistes. Tome 11, 1919.
Rivet, Paul
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Guerra, intercambio y desplazamiento de los matsigenka nanti del Alto Camisea y Alto Timpía

Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines
In this essay, we review the war during the 1970s among of the Nanti nomads, a sub-section of the Matsigenka (pre-Andean Arawak) of the Alto Camisea and Alto Timpía in the Bajo Urubamba basin in the Upper Peruvian Amazon.
Martha Rojas Zolezzi
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The Effects of Referential Factors in Mojeno Trinitario Derived and Non-Derived Ditransitive Verbs

Linguistic Discovery, 2012
This paper investigates the effects of referential factors (more specifically the person hierarchy) in non-derived and derived three-participant constructions of Mojeno Trinitario, an Arawak language of Bolivia. The basic effect of referential properties
Françoise Rose
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The Arawak of Higüey

[in]genios revista de investigación y labor creativa
Esta investigación busca aportar al debate existente sobre la denominación de los arahuacos insulares de La Española como una sociedad de jefatura. Para los efectos de esta investigación, nos limitamos a utilizar fuentes etnohistóricas primarias sobre la región este del Higüey para realizar una lectura crítica que contraponga sus descripciones con ...
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