Search results for "Indie"

Late Quaternary changes in bat palaeobiodiversity and palaeobiogeography under climatic and anthropogenic pressure: new insights from Marie-Galante, …

2016

25 pages; International audience; Data on Lesser Antillean Late Quaternary fossil bat assemblages remains limited, leading to their general exclusion from studies focusing on Caribbean bat palaeobiodiversity and palaeobiogeography. Additionally, the role of climatic versus human pressure driving changes in faunal communities remains poorly understood. Here we describe a fossil bat assemblage from Blanchard Cave on Marie-Galante in the Lesser Antilles, which produced numerous bat remains from a well-dated, stratified context. Our study reveals the occurrence of at least 12 bat species during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene on Marie-Galante, whereas only eight species are currently kn…

Low contribution of Caribbean-based researchers to academic publications on biodiversity conservation in the insular Caribbean.

2021

11 pages; International audience; The insular Caribbean is among the most threatened global biodiversity hotspots, warranting urgent and effective action in conservation. However, the capacity of Caribbean-based researchers to address challenges in biodiversity conservation appears limited. To assess the latter, we used the contribution of Caribbean-based authors to the production of peer-reviewed journal papers on biodiversity conservation in the insular Caribbean as a proxy for research capacity. Moreover, because the insular Caribbean is a complex geopolitical system including sovereign states and overseas territories, we examined the contributions of these two groups to the number of pa…

Evolutionary History of the Nesophontidae, the Last Unplaced Recent Mammal Family

2016

The mammalian evolutionary tree has lost several major clades through recent human-caused extinctions. This process of historical biodiversity loss has particularly affected tropical island regions such as the Caribbean, an area of great evolutionary diversification but poor molecular preservation. The most enigmatic of the recently extinct endemic Caribbean mammals are the Nesophontidae, a family of morphologically plesiomorphic lipotyphlan insectivores with no consensus on their evolutionary affinities, and which constitute the only major recent mammal clade to lack any molecular information on their phylogenetic placement. Here, we use a palaeogenomic approach to place Nesophontidae with…

2019

Ingested soil is a major vector of organic contaminants from environment to free-ranged animals, particularly for grazing herbivores. Therefore, a better understanding of processes driving soil intake may provide new insights to limit animal exposure to contaminants and ensure safety of animal products. To maintain the supply service of livestock farming activities in contaminated areas, it is necessary to design adapted farming practices aiming at controlling the risk for human health. This study was conducted in the French West Indies, where chlordecone, an organochlorine insecticide previously used to protect banana plantation against the black weevil and banned since 1993, has polluted …

Life of Krembegi according to Pierre Clastres

2010

Nell'articolo si analizza un capitolo centrale dell'opera Chronique des Indiens Guayaki di Pierre Clastres. L'analisi della storia di vita illustrata nel testo mostra come l'autore adotti stilemi tipici del romanzo poliziesco per raccontare in forma narrativa la sua ipotesi interpretativa sulla struttura sociale dei Guayaki.

Faut-il provincialiser les Lumières

2013

OS nat; National audience; no abstract

“From Savage to Sublime (And Partway Back): Indians and Antiquity in Early Nineteenth-Century American Literature”

2016

This article examines the comparisons made between Indians and Antiquity in early nineteenth-century American literature (notably in the works of Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper); to do so, it begins by reaching back to references in European and American writings of the eighteenth century. One of the main motivations behind the associations between Native Americans and the Ancient World made in the early decades of the nineteenth century was to “elevate” Indians in order to transform them into worthy symbols of the recently established United States. Such associations also rendered them suitable subjects for treatment by authors inspired to a large extent by the Romantic Moveme…

Profesors Viktors Ivbulis: biobibliogrāfiskais rādītājs

1993

Saturs: Priekšvārds. Profesors Viktors Ivbulis. / LZA akadēmiķis Jānis Kalniņš / Profesora V. Ivbuļa publicētie darbi. (1966. - 1992.) Profesora V. Ivbuļa atdzejotie un tulkotie darbi. Profesora V. Ivbuļa sastādītie un rediģētie darbi. Raksti par profesoru V. Ivbuli. Profesora V. Ivbuļa darbu alfabētiskais rādītājs. Personu alfabētiskais rādītājs.

Rosyjska koncepcja Eurazjatyckiego Systemu Obrony Powietrzno-Kosmicznej. Analiza problemu

2018

Autorka artykułu omawia na tle uwarunkowań geopolitycznych Rosji najważniejsze tezy planu A. Podbieriezkina, które tworzą paradygmat wspólnego bezpieczeństwa w ujęciu rosyjskim na strategicznym obszarze Eurazji. Ma to szczególne znaczenie w obliczu wzrastających zagrożeń współczesnego świata. Szczególnie niebezpieczny charakter, w związku z przeprowadzaniem prób jądrowych i nieobliczalnym reżimem Kim Dzong Una, przybiera obecnie problem Korei Północnej, co rodzi zagrożenie, że nagły i. ARTYKUŁY i rozprawy 85 konflikt może wciągnąć Półwysep w wojnę. To z kolei z pewnością doprowadziłoby do interwencji Stanów Zjednoczonych. Skutki ewentualnego konfliktu z udziałem supermocarstwa są nie do prz…

“Allochronic Views of Native Americans; or, Vanished Vanishing Indians in The Last of the Mohicans”

2016

James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans; A Narrative of 1757, first published in 1826, offers an archetypal example, perhaps the archetypal example, of a literary expression of the trope of the Vanishing Indian. This theme is present in many works of nineteenth-century American literature that include Native Americans as their subjects, but Cooper’s romance, whose very title evokes the disappearance of an entire tribe, takes the sad fate of North America’s indigenous peoples as one o...