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Araya-H., David, Christian Contreras, and Luis Sandoval. "Gray-bellied Hawk, Accipiter poliogaster (Temminck, 1824) (Accipitriformes: Accipitridae), in Costa Rica." Check List 11, no. 2 (February 1, 2015): 1559. http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/11.2.1559.

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Gray-bellied Hawk (Accipiter poliogaster) is a diurnal raptor with a distribution range and movements poorly known. A juvenile was recorded in Costa Rica in 2008 and 2009 for in the Caribbean lowlands. In this note we reported the first adult observation for Costa Rica and a new locality. Even though is uncertain how this species of bird was able to arrive to Costa Rica, we discuss possible explanations for that.
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Tevis, J. "Postcards from Costa Rica." Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 16, no. 1 (January 1, 2009): 137–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isle/isn022.

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Lewis, Cynthia. "Going Plastic in Costa Rica." Antioch Review 63, no. 1 (2005): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4614762.

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Mąkol, Joanna, Magdalena Felska, and Zofia Krol. "New genus and species of microtrombidiid mite (Actinotrichida: Trombidioidea, Microtrombidiidae) parasitizing spiders (Araneae: Araneidae) in Costa Rica." Acarologia 57, no. 3 (May 11, 2017): 517–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.24349/acarologia/20174174.

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A new genus and species of microtrombidiid mite, Araneothrombium dimalogunovi n. gen. et n. sp. is described based on larvae collected from a juvenile araneid spider in Costa Rica. The genus, tentatively placed in Eutrombidiinae, displays affinity to Verdunella Southcott, 1993 and Spinnitrombium Fain and Jocqué, 1996. This is the first record of Trombidioidea (excl. Trombiculidae s.l.) in Costa Rica.
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Harpelle, Ronald N. "The Social and Political Integration of West Indians in Costa Rica: 1930–50." Journal of Latin American Studies 25, no. 1 (February 1993): 103–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x00000389.

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People of African descent in Costa Rica form a marginalised and geographically concentrated minority group. The limited interest that academics have shown towards people of African descent is a reflection of their position in Costa Rican society. National histories consistently ignore the contributions of West Indian immigrants to the economic and social development of modern Costa Rica. Moreover, the existing literature on people of African descent in Costa Rica fails to document properly West Indians' efforts to integrate into Hispanic society. As a result, several misconceptions continue to exist about the evolution of the West Indian community in Costa Rica.
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Werneck, M. R., A. Mastrangelli, R. Velloso, P. Baldassin, H. Jerdy, and E. C. Q. Carvalho. "The genus Rhytidodoides Price, 1939 (Digenea: Rhytidodidae) in Brazil: New geographic occurrence and report of pathology in the gallbladder." Helminthologia 56, no. 2 (June 1, 2019): 175–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/helm-2019-0004.

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SummaryThe present note describes the occurrence of Rhytidodoides intestinalis and Rhytidodoides similis (Digenea: Rhytidodidae) in the gallbladder of two juvenile green turtles (Chelonia mydas - Testu- dines, Cheloniidae) found on the coast of Brazil. Both were detected in gallbladder and intestine of green turtles: Rhytidodoides similis (United States, Panama, Costa Rica and Brazil) and R. intestinais (United States, Panama and Costa Rica). This note is the first report of R. intestinalis in Brazil and South-West Atlantic Ocean. Also the histological lesions caused by the parasites in one gallbladder are described.
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Vega Jiménez, Patricia. "Periodismo y literatura en Costa Rica (1833-1950)." Revista de Historia, no. 73 (June 29, 2016): 15–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.15359/rh.73.1.

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This article analyzes the relationship between the development of journalism and literature, specifically the participation of Costa Rican writers in the press and the role played by the press in the publicity of literature. The journey to fulfill these objectives begins in 1833 and ends in 1950; this long period helps us identify the changes and continuities over time and therefore establish a comparative analysis.
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Acuña, María Eugenia. "Carlos Gagini y el Romanticismo en Costa Rica." Revista Iberoamericana 53, no. 138 (June 22, 1987): 121–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/reviberoamer.1987.4319.

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Solera, Rodrigo. "La novela de tema indígena en Costa Rica." Revista Iberoamericana 53, no. 138 (June 22, 1987): 281–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/reviberoamer.1987.4328.

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Monge Meza, Carlos Francisco, and Gabriel Baltodano Román. "Para una periodización de la crítica literaria en Costa Rica (Periods in Literary Criticism in Costa Rica)." LETRAS 2, no. 60 (February 22, 2017): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.15359/rl.2-60.1.

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El estudio es un análisis del desarrollo de la crítica literaria costarricense, desde sus orígenes hasta la actualidad. Para efectuar su periodización se tienen en cuenta aspectos exógenos y endógenos, vasos comunicantes que llevan, a su vez, a la formulación de cuatro etapas, organizadas por factores socioculturales y de índole propiamente literaria: a una etapa fundacional, la siguen una exploratoria, otra asociada a la academia universitaria y la contemporánea. Cada una se asocia a una ideología (proyecto de nación) y a un proyecto estético (la idea de literatura).This study is an analysis of the development of literary criticism in Costa Rica, from its origin to the present time. To define the distinct periods, both extraliterary and intraliterary aspects were taken into account. These communicating vessels, in turn, lead to the formulation of four stages, due to sociocultural and literary factors: a founding stage, an exploratory stage, one related to academe, and a contemporary stage, each of which is associated with an ideology (how the nation is conceived) and an esthetic proposal (how literature is conceived).
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Villanueva, Aura. "Institution and Monstrosity in the Narrative of Fernando Contreras Castro." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77427.

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This thesis examines the ways in which the rapid economic changes, as portrayed in two Costa Rican novels, Única mirando al mar (1993) and Los Peor (1995) by Fernando Contreras Castro, serve as solid foundation for laying out the deep-rooted economic and political challenges that have profoundly affected not only Costa Rican society but many of the national institutions. It focuses on revealing the uprising unfertile relationship between the residents and the governmental institutions, whose monstrous model of behavior are incompatible with the Costa Rican Constitution and thus, generating a systematic shift in the social norms. It explores the historical and literary Costa Rican context demonstrating how the narrative shade considerable light on the complex system of governance and its fragility in a democratic society.
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Dudreuil, Lucie. "Revendications sociolinguistiques et identitaires de la population caribéenne au Costa Rica." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016BOR30012.

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Tout au long du XIXe siècle, le Costa Rica a construit son identité nationale sur l’idée de « pureté et de blancheur de la race costaricienne ». C’est dans ce paradigme identitaire qu’une population afro-caribéenne provenant majoritairement de la Jamaïque est arrivée sur la côte caribéenne pour travailler à la construction du chemin de fer et dans les plantations bananières à partir des années 1870. Cette population « noire », qui ne parlait pas l’espagnol, mais l’anglais et un créole à base d’anglais, constituait « un obstacle » au projet d’identité nationale. L’année 2015 marque un tournant, car le Costa Rica vient de se redéfinir comme une « République […] multiethnique et pluriculturelle » par un amendement constitutionnel de l’article premier. Cette thèse retrace le processus complexe d’intégration de la population afro-caribéenne au Costa Rica de 1870 à 2015 et défend l’idée qu’une reconfiguration du paradigme de l’identité nationale costaricienne s’est amorcée depuis la zone la plus périphérique du Costa Rica (la province de Limon) et en grande partie par le biais des revendications sociolinguistiques et identitaires de la population caribéenne. En effet, la politique linguistique concernant l’espagnol et les langues indigènes centrées sur la relation du citoyen à la langue officielle est contrariée par la pratique fortement ancrée du créole de Limon dans la Caraïbe costaricienne. L’apport théorique des linguistes Robert Le Page et Andrée Tabouret-Keller qui ont mis en évidence comment les choix langagiers constituent des « actes d’identités » par lesquels les locuteurs exposent discursivement leur identité personnelle, leurs affiliations à certains groupes et leurs aspirations à certains rôles sociaux a retenu notre attention pour montrer que l’utilisation du créole de Limon avec ses concepts et ses symboles propres dans le contexte plurilinguistique et diglossique de la Caraïbe costaricienne révèle des positionnements identitaires favorisant une reconfiguration de l’identité nationale. En 2010, l’UNESCO a classé le créole de Limon dans son Atlas des langues du monde en danger. Existe-t-il une campagne de revitalisation au Costa Rica ? Dans une perspective intersémiotique de l’étude des reconfigurations identitaires, la littérature et les arts de la Caraïbe costaricienne ont été envisagés comme des espaces privilégiés de représentation des identités plurielles et plurilingues et d’expression des revendications sociolinguistiques et identitaires de la population caribéenne
Throughout the 20th century, Costa Rica built its own national identity on the “purity and whiteness” of the Costa Rican race. This is the identity paradigm in which the Jamaican population found itself upon arriving on the Caribbean coast in 1870 in order to work on the construction of railways and the banana plantations. This black, non-Spanish-speaking community was a barrier to the Costa Rican national identity project. However, the year 2015, marked a turning point. In virtue of an amendment to the first article of the Constitution, Costa Rica redefined itself as a “multiethnic, multicultural Republic”. This thesis retraces the complex process of integration undergone by the Costa Rican Afro-Caribbean community from 1870 to 2015. This study claims that the existence of this recent reconfiguration of the Costa Rican identity paradigm was in part fostered by one of the country’s most peripheral areas: Limon. The works of linguists such as Robert Le Page and André Tabouret-Keller have proven that linguistic choices can be considered as “identity claims or acts” by means of which a given speaker demonstrates his identity, his background and his aspirations. The people from Limon, by means of their sociolinguistic and identity claims, have thus helped start the aforementioned process of reconfiguration. The well-established use of Creole English clashes with the government’s official policy regarding the use of the official language of Spanish and the indigenous languages. Even though Creole English is spoken in Limon, in 2010 UNESCO classified it in its Atlas of the World’s Endangered Languages. Is there thus a campaign of revitalization in Costa Rica concerning Creole English? In an attempt to analyze the changing identity paradigm from an intersemiotic perspective, this study has chosen to focus on Caribbean literature and art as they both represent powerful mediums through which the expression of the Caribbean identity is portrayed and claimed
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Vadakin, Brian C. "Comentario social en dos novelas de Fabian Dobles." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1440539827.

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Chaves, Gustavo A. "Tradición y Ruptura en la Poesía de Carlos de la Ossa." 2008. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/247.

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ABSTRACT TRADITION AND RUPTURE IN THE POETRY OF CARLOS DE LA OSSA FEBRUARY 2009 GUSTAVO ADOLFO CHAVES B.A., UNIVERSITY OF COSTA RICA M.A. UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS-AMHERST Directed by: Professor Márgara Russotto, Ph.D. The present thesis examines the seven poetry books by Costa Rican poet Carlos de la Ossa (San José, 1946) entitled Imprimatur. This author is of one of Costa Rica’s post avant-garde poets who most clearly expresses the coexistence of a traditional lyric style (centered around the themes of love, God and loneliness, for instance) and everyday language (through records of political facts and personal experience) in his poetry. The purpose of this work is to analyze the distinctive features of Carlos de la Ossa’s poetics considering his formal particularities, his aesthetic and ideological sources, and his historical context. We attempt to explain how his poetry presents a mixture of traditional and innovative poetic languages, as well as the importance of this mixture in his poetry. Furthermore, we discuss the relationship of these characteristics with similar literary processes within both the Costa Rican and Latin American poetries. The central hypothesis of this study is that, in the poetry of Carlos de la Ossa, it is possible to identify an organic coexistence of traditional poetic registers with constant appearances of rupture elements. The study identifies a connection between Carlos de la Ossa’s poetry, romantic and existentialist ideas, and modernista aesthetics. In order to meet these objectives, this thesis revisits the literary criticism on the poetry of Carlos de la Ossa, especially the labels applied to his work (such as metaphysical, mystical, difficult and existentialist), and connects it to other studies of the historical context in both Costa Rican and Latin American literature. Methodologically speaking, this thesis presents a theoretical and critical approach based on non-linear categories, and it studies the specific characteristics of the author’s poetry. The methodology consists mainly of a close reading of the poems of Carlos de la Ossa, and a theorization of the sequential character of the Imprimatur books, intended to underline both the traditional and the innovative elements in his poetry and its general significance in contemporary poetics.
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Books on the topic "Costa Rica – Juvenile literature"

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Costa Rica. Philadelphia: Mason Crest, 2008.

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Shields, Charles J. Costa Rica. Edited by Henderson James D. 1942-. Philadelphia: Mason Crest Publishers, 2003.

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Frank, Nicole. Costa Rica. Milwaukee, Wis., USA: Gareth Stevens Pub., 2000.

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Frisch, Joy. Costa Rica. Mankato, Minn: Creative Education, 2001.

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Morrison, Marion. Costa Rica. New York: Children's Press, 1998.

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1966-, Cooke Barbara, ed. Costa Rica. 2nd ed. New York: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, 2007.

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Costa Rica. New York: Children's Press, 1998.

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Foley, Erin. Costa Rica. New York: M. Cavendish, 1997.

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Tracey, West. Costa Rica. Minneapolis: Lerner, 2009.

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Raum, Elizabeth. Costa Rica. Chicago, Ill: Heinemann Library, 2012.

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Cañada, Ernest. "Community-based tourism in a degrowth perspective." In Issues and cases of degrowth in tourism, 42–63. Wallingford: CABI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789245073.0042.

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Abstract This chapter highlights that despite the large body of existing literature on community-based tourism there is a lack of research adopting a degrowth perspective, as well as those conditions in which degrowth can happen in the case of community-based tourism. Based on the negligence of past research, the chapter explores the potentialities and limitations of community-based tourism experiences in Central America from the perspective of a socioecological transition. The chapter analyses three community-based tourism initiatives in three Latin American countries: Cooperativa Los Pinos (El Salvador), Ecoposada El Tisey (Nicaragua) and Stribrawpa (Costa Rica), and highlights both their commercial success and their potential to show possible emancipatory paths. In doing so, in-depth interviews were conducted with the members of the three initiatives, and systematization of their main characteristics and results, as well as the identification of the adopted strategies, were reviewed in order to be considered as examples for a debate on how tourism can be rethought in a degrowth perspective.
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Cañada, Ernest. "Community-based tourism in a degrowth perspective." In Issues and cases of degrowth in tourism, 42–63. Wallingford: CABI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789245073.0003.

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Abstract This chapter highlights that despite the large body of existing literature on community-based tourism there is a lack of research adopting a degrowth perspective, as well as those conditions in which degrowth can happen in the case of community-based tourism. Based on the negligence of past research, the chapter explores the potentialities and limitations of community-based tourism experiences in Central America from the perspective of a socioecological transition. The chapter analyses three community-based tourism initiatives in three Latin American countries: Cooperativa Los Pinos (El Salvador), Ecoposada El Tisey (Nicaragua) and Stribrawpa (Costa Rica), and highlights both their commercial success and their potential to show possible emancipatory paths. In doing so, in-depth interviews were conducted with the members of the three initiatives, and systematization of their main characteristics and results, as well as the identification of the adopted strategies, were reviewed in order to be considered as examples for a debate on how tourism can be rethought in a degrowth perspective.
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"Costa Rica." In Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature, 459–69. Routledge, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203304365-34.

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"Literature Cited." In Trees of Panama and Costa Rica, 479–80. Princeton University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400836178.479.

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Harvey-Kattou, Liz. "Coded Messages: Costa Rican Protest Literature, 1970–1985." In Contested Identities in Costa Rica, 53–112. Liverpool University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789620054.003.0003.

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This chapter posits that the 1970s in Costa Rica was a period of sociological revolution whereby dominant ideas of national identity began to be openly challenged. It analyses the protest literature of this period written by three key authors: Quince Duncan, Carmen Naranjo, and Alfonso Chase. Firstly considering Duncan’s Los cuatro espejos, it explores this novel as an example of the harmful practices of stereotyping and the internalisation of norms. It then considers the feminist subtext of Naranjo’s short stories ‘Simbiosis del encuentro’ and ‘A los payasos todos los quieren’, before moving on to analyse homosexual codes apparent in Chase’s short stories ‘La lluvia. El Silencio. La Música’.
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"LITERATURE CITED." In Amphibians and Reptiles of La Selva, Costa Rica, and the Caribbean Slope, 325–44. University of California Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/9780520937017-008.

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Regalla, Michele Lynn. "Planning Service-Learning Abroad for Teacher Candidates." In Community Engagement Program Implementation and Teacher Preparation for 21st Century Education, 117–39. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0871-7.ch007.

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The purpose of this chapter is to provide guidelines to education college and university faculty members who are considering the implementation of an international service-learning experience for their teacher candidates. The chapter begins with a review of literature supporting the benefits of service-learning for teacher candidates. Next is a description of a service-learning trip to Costa Rica planned and implemented by an education faculty member in conjunction with a cultural diversity course designed to prepare candidates to meet the needs of English Learners (ELs). Following the description of the Costa Rica service-learning trip, the author provides guidelines and a list of questions for consideration. The guidelines are designed to assist faculty members who are considering implementing a similar service-learning experience for their teacher candidates. Finally, the chapter concludes with quotations provided by participants of the Costa Rica service-learning experience that show the overall benefits of the service-learning experience.
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Devereux, Peter, and Kirsten Holmes. "Voluntourism and the Sustainable Development Goals." In Collaboration for Sustainable Tourism Development. Goodfellow Publishers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.23912/9781911635000-3917.

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Volunteer tourism or voluntourism has become an extremely popular form of tourism as well as attracting significant and growing academic attention (Wearing & McGehee, 2013). In 2001 Wearing defined volunteer tourism (drawing on his own research in community based ecotourism and volunteer tourism in Costa Rica) as: “those tourists who, for various reasons, volunteer in an organized way to undertake holidays that might involve aiding or alleviating the material poverty of some groups in society, the restoration of certain environments, or research into aspects of society or environment” (Wearing, 2001:1). The significant growth in academic interest in the topic is reflected in a web of science search for volunteer tourism peer reviewed literature which counts 1 for 2001, 4 for 2008, 15 for 2013 and 41 for 2016 and the publication of a review paper in the leading journal Tourism Management (Wearing & McGehee, 2013) and several journal special issues.
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Marois, Thomas. "State-Owned Banks and Development." In Handbook of Research on Comparative Economic Development Perspectives on Europe and the MENA Region, 52–73. IGI Global, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9548-1.ch004.

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Thirty years of neoliberal restructuring have side-lined alternative financing practices, and propagated mainstream myths about state-owned banks. This chapter examines these neoliberal claims, arguing instead that state-owned banks can remain a crucial part of progressive, sustainable and democratic strategies for investments in long-term development and infrastructure. Drawing on past and present case studies, as well as the theoretical literature on finance, the chapter points to the potential to revive – and improve – state-owned banking as a viable option for financing public services and development. To this end the chapter dispels nine popular neoliberal claims about state-owned banks while discussing how state-owned banks have undergone neoliberal restructuring processes such as marketization and corporatization in ways that nonetheless challenge their status as ‘public' banks. To illustrate, the chapter looks at imperfect, but telling or inspiring, examples from Brazil, China, Costa Rica, India, South Africa, Turkey and Venezuela, among others.
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Barker, Graeme. "Weed, Tuber, and Maize Farming in the Americas." In The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory. Oxford University Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199281091.003.0012.

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The American continent extends over 12,000 kilometres from Alaska to Cape Horn, and encompasses an enormous variety of environments from arctic to tropical. For the purposes of this discussion, such a huge variety has to be simplified into a few major geographical units within the three regions of North, Central, and South America (Fig. 7.1). Large tracts of Alaska and modern Canada north of the 58th parallel consist of tundra, which extends further south down the eastern coast of Labrador. To the south, boreal coniferous forests stretch eastwards from Lake Winnipeg and the Red River past the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, and westwards from the slopes of the Rockies to the Pacific. The vast prairies in between extend southwards through the central United States between the Mississippi valley and the Rockies, becoming less forested and more open as aridity increases further south. South of the Great Lakes the Appalachian mountains dominate the eastern United States, making a temperate landscape of parallel ranges and fertile valleys, with sub-tropical environments developing in the south-east. The two together are commonly referred to as the ‘eastern Woodlands’ in the archaeological literature. On the Pacific side are more mountain ranges such as the Sierra Nevada, separated from the Rockies by arid basins including the infamous Death Valley. These drylands extend southwards into the northern part of Central America, to what is now northern Mexico, a region of pronounced winter and summer seasonality in temperature, with dryland geology and geomorphology and xerophytic vegetation. The highlands of Central America, from Mexico to Nicaragua, are cool tropical environments with mixed deciduous and coniferous forests. The latter develop into oak-laurel-myrtle rainforest further south in Costa Rica and Panama. The lowlands on either side sustain a variety of tropical vegetation adapted to high temperatures and frost-free climates, including rainforest, deciduous woodland, savannah, and scrub. South America can be divided into a number of major environmental zones (Pearsall, 1992). The first is the Pacific littoral, which changes dramatically from tropical forest in Colombia and Ecuador to desert from northern Peru to central Chile. This coastal plain is transected by rivers flowing from the Andes, and in places patches of seasonal vegetation (lomas) are able to survive in rainless desert sustained by sea fog.
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