Awarded with Eternity: Specifics of the Burial Practices in the Ancient Cultures of the Pacific Region at the Turn of the Eras

2018 ◽  
pp. 34-47
Author(s):  
Андрей Табарев ◽  
Andrey Tabarev
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Coast ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Eastern Asia ◽  
Tropical Zone ◽  
Burial Practices ◽  
Western Mexico ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Japanese Archipelago ◽  
Similar Formation

The paper deals with various aspects of the complex academic issue of studying the culture genesis in the Pacific Region based on the archeological data. Periods of strong cultural surges, milestones in the development of technologies and economy, crucial events in economy and social domain are of acute interest within the scope of the outlined problem. Such periods include the era turn (the 2nd century BC – 3–4th centuries AD), i. e. “The time of great leaders and stone tombs”. The research focuses on two regions – the southern part of the Japanese Archipelago (Kyushu, Ryukyu and Okinawa islands) and the tropical zone of the Pacific coast of America (from Western Mexico to the northern Chile) – and to individual parts of the South-Eastern Asia (the Philippines, Indonesia). The findings obtained in the course of the research confirm the hypothesis about similar formation scenarios of the tribal elite and accompanying components of architecture, arts and commerce in objects of “prestigious technologies” in the ancient cultures of the tropical and subtropical zones of the Pacific Region.

Biological Parameters of Three Populations of Triatoma dimidiata s. s. (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) From Western Mexico

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Nogueda-Torres ◽  
Oziel D Montañez-Valdez ◽  
J G Michel-Parra ◽  
Diana M Martínez-Grant ◽  
J Alejandro Martínez-Ibarra
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Median Number ◽  
Sensu Stricto ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Western Mexico ◽  
Post Feeding ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
Vector Borne ◽  
Cruzi Infection

Abstract Chagas disease is a very important vector-borne disease in México, and Triatoma dimidiata sensu stricto (Latreille) is one of the most important vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi Chagas, mainly in southern and central states. In the Pacific Coast states with the highest prevalence of human T. cruzi infection, T. dimidiata s. s. is considered as a secondary vector. However, the vectorial capacity of those populations has not been studied. Therefore, the vector characteristics of three populations of T. dimidiata s. s. in western México were evaluated in this study. The populations were maintained in the laboratory at 27 ± 1°C and 75% ± 5% RH with a 12:12 h (light:dark) regime, fed on rabbits in a fortnight basis. The development times were short (172–238 d), and the number of bloodmeals to molt was low (11). Mortality was moderate (36–45%), the onset of feeding was relatively rapid (0.5–1.7 min), and feedings were extended (>15 min). More than 40% of individuals in most instars defecated in one of three categories: <1 min when feeding (5–37.9%), immediately after feeding (9–28.6%), or in <1 min post feeding (7–25.8%). The median number of laid eggs was high (over 2.5) in the three populations, as were the egg eclosion rates (>86%). Thus, the T. dimidiata s. s. in the three populations are potentially efficient vectors of T. cruzi and could contribute to the high prevalence of infection in human populations in western México.

REVIEW OF THE TREMATODE GENERA BACCIGER AND PENTAGRAMMA (FELLODISTOMATIDAE) AND DESCRIPTION OF P. PETROWI (LAYMAN, 1930) N. COMB. FROM MARINE FISHES FROM THE PACIFIC COAST OF CANADA

1965 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 381-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Margolis ◽  
Hilda Lei Ching
Keyword(s):  
North Pacific ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Marine Fishes ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Type B ◽  
The North ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
North Pacific Region ◽  
The North Pacific

The generic diagnoses of Bacciger and Pentagramma are emended. Recognized as members of the genus Bacciger are the type, B. bacciger (Rudolphi, 1819), from the Mediterranean, Black, and Azov Seas; B. nicolli Palombi, 1934, from Atlantic waters near the British Isles; and B. opisthonemae Nahhas and Cable, 1964, from Jamaican waters. Pentagramma consist of P. symmetricum Chnlkova, 1939, the type, from the Black and Azov Seas and P. petrowi (Layman, 1930) n. comb, from the northern part of the North Pacific region. Synonyms of P. petrowi are Monorcheides(?) petrowi Layman, 1930: Orientophorus sayori Yamaguti, 1942; Faustula sayori (Yamaguti, 1942); Orientophorus petrowi (Layman, 1930); and Bacciger petrowi (Layman, 1930). Pentagramma petrowi is redescribed and additional details of morphology are included for P. symmetricum, B. bacciger, and B. nicolli. Measurements of the species discussed and extensive host and locality records are tabulated.

scholarly journals CHOCQUIBTOWN: Young Voices Shattering Afro-Colombian Invisibility

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra M. Gaviria-Buck
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
African Descent ◽  
Black Population ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
The Past ◽  
Musical Production ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Media

In the past two years an Afrocolombian hip-hop band from the Pacific region of Colombia has been getting a lot of attention in the media, especially after winning a Latin Grammy Award in 2010 and being nominated to several categories of the Grammy Music Awards in 2011 and 2012.  In their lyrics, they claim to represent the black population of the Pacific coast, people of African descent who have traditionally lived in marginalized conditions of poverty and exploitation of different sorts.  By borrowing some insights from African American criticism, the afrocentricity in Choquibtown's songs is explored.  Additionally, through a postcolonialist approach, this band's musical production is analyzed as a voice of widespread racism and as means of resistance to political and cultural oppression. 

Mexico and the Pacific

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward R. Slack
Keyword(s):  
Mexican American ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The South ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Porfirio Diaz ◽  
Mexican American War ◽  
The North ◽  
The Pacific

Called “Mar del Sur” [South Sea] when first spotted by Balboa in 1513 and dubbed “Mar Pacifíco” [Peaceful Calm Sea] by Ferdinand Magellan in 1520, the historical relationship between the Pacific Ocean and the people of Mexico is multilayered and dynamic. During the Spanish colonial era (1521–1821), the viceroyalty of New Spain (Nueva España) supervised the Asian and Polynesian colonies of the Philippines and Guam (and briefly Taiwan and the Spice island of Ternate) across the Pacific. Acapulco became a mythical emporium of exotic luxury supplied by the galleons from Manila that for 250 years tied Asia to the Iberian New World. Beyond this famous port, littoral native communities dotting the Pacific coast, from Oaxaca in the south to the forty-second parallel of Alta California in the north, gradually fell under Spanish secular and religious control. The enormous coastline measured approximately 5,400 miles, more than double the length of seaside territory facing the Gulf of Mexico. Following the War of Mexican Independence (1810–1821), the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) emerged. For the next fifty years, Mexico experienced domestic political instability exacerbated by wars against the United States (Mexican-American War, 1846–1848) and France (1862–1867). When political order was finally established under the regime of Porfirio Díaz (1876–1910), regionalism was confronted by the centrifugal power of a modernizing, technocratic state. Despite losing 840 miles of California coastline, and a lucrative trade route with Manila, in the Mexican-American War, Mexico’s Pacific littoral in the south grew to incorporate the formerly Guatemalan territory of Chiapas, and a new shipping network evolved. Traditional research on pueblos, cities, or states along the Pacific coast emphasizes purely local or regional contexts within the colonial or independent Mexican state; or it is grouped thematically into studies about the galleon trade or California mission settlements. Recent scholarship is encouraging a more balanced approach, accentuating the many threads that wove a rich tapestry of Mexico’s unique relationship with the “Pacific World” (as opposed to the more popular “Atlantic World”); not only in a nationalist framework, but with inter-American and trans-Pacific or global dimensions.

scholarly journals Chaetognath assemblages along the Pacific Coast and adjacent inland waters of the Philippines: relative importance of oceanographic and biological factors

2012 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 410-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Mar P. Noblezada ◽  
Wilfredo L. Campos
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Mass Movement ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Inland Waters ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Biological Factors ◽  
Comprehensive Information ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Plankton Distribution

Abstract Noblezada, M. M. P., and Campos, W. L. 2012. Chaetognath assemblages along the Pacific Coast and adjacent inland waters of the Philippines: relative importance of oceanographic and biological factors. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 69: 410–420. When studying plankton distribution, it is necessary to investigate the biology of the target organisms and the surrounding physical environment. Station and species groupings are only useful if they provide insight into the environmental associations of the species in the group. The study covers two geographic regions: the Pacific Coast (Bicol Shelf) and inland waters (San Bernardino Strait, Ticao Pass, Sibuyan, and Visayan Seas) of the Philippines. Comprehensive information is provided on chaetognath assemblages and distribution within the regions. The findings are integrated with oceanographic conditions and phenomena that define the characteristics of the subareas and consideration given to how these conditions affect chaetognath ecology. A comparison is also provided of the community structure of the two regions, and the possible use of chaetognaths as indicator species of water mass movement and oceanographic phenomena explored. In all, 28 284 specimens were examined, and 33 species from 17 genera were identified. Chaetognath distributions, abundance, and community structure were analysed using dissimilarity indices and multiple regression. The results show that the distribution of chaetognaths agrees well with the movement of oceanic water from the Pacific into the central part of the archipelago.

Impactos, resistencias y tensiones de las comunidades afrodescendientes del Pacífico colombiano al interior del conflicto armado interno: análisis desde la reconstrucción de memoria histórica. / Impacts, resistances and tensions of african descent ...

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (06) ◽  
pp. 37-65
Author(s):  
Clara Patricia Pantoja Bohórquez
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Research ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Sociedad Civil

Este artículo presenta un análisis de las resistencias, impactos y tensiones de dos Comunidades Afrocolombianas que habitan el Pacífico Colombiano, que han sido víctimas colectivas del conflicto armado interno que vive el país. Los casos fueron reconstruidos a partir de un proceso de Memoria Histórica implementado en la región Pacífica del departamento de Nariño durante los años 2011 y 2012, en el cual se desarrolló un ejercicio riguroso de investigación-intervención de carácter cualitativo y participativo, que después fue sistematizado y validado con las comunidades. El tema adquiere relevancia en la actualidad, dado el discurso de posconflicto que viene instalándose en Colombia y el impulso que tanto a nivel institucional como por parte de la sociedad civil, se le otorga a las iniciativas de memoria, como herramienta para los procesos de verdad, justicia y reparación de las víctimas. This paper analyzes the resistances, impacts and tensions in two Afro-Colombian communities who inhabit the Colombian Pacific coast, which have been collective victims of the armed conflict in the country. The cases were reve from a process of Historical Memory implemented in the Pacific region of Nariño during 2011 and 2012, from a qualitative and participatory research and intervention, which was later systematized and validated with communities. The subject becomes relevant today, whitin the current post-conflict speech and the significance given to Memory initiatives as a tool for the processes of truth, justice and reparation for victims.

scholarly journals First report of Faunus ater (Pachychilidae: Gastropod) on the American Continent: A mature empty specimen from Masachapa, Nicaragua, Central America

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adolfo López S.J. ◽  
Janina Urcuyo
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Central America ◽  
Brackish Water ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Range Extension ◽  
Single Specimen ◽  
American Continent ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Del Rio

Faunus ater (Linné, 1758), es un gastrópodo pachiquílido monotípico deagua salobre, bien conocido en Filipinas y el sudeste asiático. Un únicoejemplar fue hallado en el estuario del río Masachapa, en la costa delPacífico nicaragüense a 60 km de Managua. Este hallazgo constituye unaextensión de ámbito trans-continental, la primera para este género enlas Américas.ABSTRACTFaunus ater (Linné, 1758), a Pachychilid monotypic gastropod, is a wellknown brackish water snail from the Philippines and East Asia. In theyear 1982 a single specimen was found in the estuary section of RiverMasachapa, Masachapa Town, on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua, 60km from Managua. This trans-continental range extension is the firstreported in the Americas.

The Future of Western Dependencies in South Eastern Asia and the Pacific

1943 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 909-919
Author(s):  
Lennox A. Mills
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Eastern Asia ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Future ◽  
Peace Settlement ◽  
Divergent Development ◽  
Set Up

The future of South Eastern Asia and the Philippines is one of the most complicated problems with which the peace settlement will have to grapple. There is a certain broad similarity between the countries concerned which is likely to be a trap for the unwary. It seems so simple to set up free and democratic governments, to equip and train citizen armies to defend their independence, and to raise the standard of living. It also seems reasonable to assume that if the 145,000,000 people of South Eastern Asia and the Philippines could be federated, their combined resources would go a long way towards enabling them to maintain their independence.Unfortunately, deep-seated differences based on race, religion, and history are the dominating influences, and overshadow the similarities of strategic and economic weakness and lack of independence. Disunion bids fair to increase as a result of the nationalism which is beginning to appear. The Burmese regard themselves as a master race, and have an inflated sense of their own power and superiority because of their former conquests in Thailand and Assam. The Thais have something of the same feelings towards the Malays and the Cambodians of Indo-China. One reason why the Malays asked the British to establish a protectorate over the peninsula was to safeguard their independence against Thai ambitions. This fear and hostility have been strengthened by Thai annexation in 1943 of four of the nine Malay States, and a claim to most of the others. The Malays, Indonesians, and Filipinos come from the same racial stock, but so far as the latter are concerned, centuries of divergent development have made the differences more important than the similarity in racial characteristics which is noticeable among the three peoples.

scholarly journals Archaeological Jubilrr on the Occasion of the Centenary of Birth of Betty Meggers (1921–2012)

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-204
Author(s):  
Gavrilina T. ◽  
◽  
Tabarev A. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
North American ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
100Th Anniversary ◽  
The North ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Japanese Archipelago ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Archaeological Cultures

This article is related to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the world famous North American archaeologist Betty Jane Meggers (1921–2012), who made an invaluable contribution to the study of archaeological antiquities in Ecuador, Brazil, Venezuela, Chile, Peru, etc. Her long list of achievements includes the creation of a chronological chart for the archaeological cultures of the coastal part of Ecuador (in collaboration with Clifford Evans), remaining relevant today. Also, the name of B. J. Meggers is often mentioned in the context of the debatable hypothesis “Jōmon-Valdivia” which was made at the very beginning of the 1960s. It is focused on the possibility of transoceanic contacts between the population of the Japanese archipelago and the inhabitants of the Pacific coast of South America 5500–6000 years ago. This was preceded by a significant period of B. Meggers’ work in the Amazon (1947–1954). A brief outline of the first half of life and career of the North American researcher allows us to trace the main stages of transformations of her scientific interests. Keywords: South America, Brazil, Ecuador, Amazonia, biography, research history

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