Fiddler Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Ocypodidae) From Coastal Ecuador and the Galápagos Islands: Species Descriptions and DNA Barcodes by Carl L. Thurman, John C. McNamara, Hsi‐Te Shih, Mariana V. Capparelli

“…In western South America, the coasts of Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, the Galápagos Archipelago, and northern Peru form the Tropical Eastern Pacific biome. …”
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Sustainable Building Standards in the Galapagos Islands: Definition, Simulation, and Implementation in Representative Living Labs by Jorge Torres-Barriuso, Iñigo Lopez-Villamor, Aitziber Egusquiza, Antonio Garrido-Marijuan, Ander Romero-Amorrortu, Ziortza Egiluz

“…In line with the National Energy Efficiency Plan promoted by the Government of Ecuador for the Archipelago, this study provides transparent and reliable information and data on the building stock of the islands. …”
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Le mythe comme fondement des territoires et de l’ordre social dans les îles de l’ouest de Sumatra (Indonésie) by Dominique Guillaud

“…This demonstration is inspired by the works that Bonnemaison carried out on a privileged field, the archipelago of Vanuatu; the paper explores the same kind of correspondences between political and spatial order in two Indonesian island, Nias and Siberut, and tries to reveal the strategic dimension invested in myths and narratives of foundation.…”
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Les signes de l’interaction esprit-humain by Fanny Tilmant

“…On the Zanzibar Archipelago, the terms masheitani (sing. sheitani) and majini (sing. jini) designate invisible beings that share the world with human beings. …”
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Políticas coloniales y agendas locales en los márgenes del imperio español : La deportación de vagos mexicanos a las Filipinas, 1765-1811 by Eva Maria Mehl

“…Using the royal decree that in 1775 instituted annual roundups of vagrants in Spain as a point of departure, the first half of this article analyzes the reasons why this ordinance was adopted in Mexico City in 1783 with the purpose of sending vagrants to the Philippines in a systematic manner and complementing the annual quota of soldiers that New Spain had to send to the archipelago. The second part of this study examines the consequences of this decision in New Spain’s society and for the imperial needs of the Spanish Philippines.…”
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Mayotte s'ancre dans la république française by François Taglioni

“…This departmentalization outside the hexagon is the result of a long political process begun in 1975 to the date of the first referendum that would thereafter Mayotte separate from the rest of the Comoros archipelago. This departmentalization comes within a social and political instability particularly acute for several months in the French overseas departments. …”
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Book Review by Muhammed Haron

“…During the decades of the 20th century, most scholars who studied these early ‘Cape’ figures that hailed from the Melayu archipelago, wrote short exploratory essays. Examples are Prof Adrianus van Selms’ bibliographical entry of Shaykh Yusuf Al-Makassari’s (1626-1699) and Prof Gerrie Lubbe’s journal article on Imam Abdullah ibn Qadi ‘Abdus Salam (aka Tuan Guru [1712-1807]). …”
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Dans les pas de la nuit. Les rythmes urbains de Beyrouth à la tombée du jour by Marie Bonte, Louis Le Douarin

“…At city scale, Beirut looks like an archipelago. This new geography reveals a divided city where representations and rhythms interact and impact on trajectories and spatial practices.…”
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Mortalité et cyclones en Guadeloupe (Antilles françaises) by Frédéric Leone, Samuel Battut, Victoria Bigot, Guilhem Cousin Thorez, Thomas Candela, Freddy Vinet

“…This paper lays the methodological basis for a historical catalogue of significant and deadly hydro-meteorological events that have occurred in the Guadeloupe archipelago and the northern islands since 1635. For the recent period, post 1950, it is supplemented by a Geographical Information System used to locate and inform each victim with his profile, his behavior, the circumstances and causes of death. …”
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Une visite de Natal dans le sillage des avions français by François Weigel

“…This article records the French company's presence in the region of Rio Grande do Norte and the Fernando de Noronha archipelago (in Pernambuco), assessing the historical impact of this commercial adventure on this territory and delimiting its marks and traces in the present day.…”
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L’archipel des Antilles, terres d’Amérique ? : la nouvelle "New Frontier" et ses implications by Lionel Davidas

“…But is the West Indian archipelago a mere outpost of continental America or a distinct entity that circumscribes what Édouard Glissant has named "The hurricane basin"? …”
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Penjelajahan Orang Prancis dan Penelitian Sejarah Alam di Nusantara Pada Masa Kolonial by Gani Ahmad Jaelani

“…This article analyzes how the French naturalists made their research on natural history in the Archipelago. It examines as well the objects that interested them. …”
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The New Turn to Mecca by Michael Laffan

“…I will close by suggesting that, in the long run, it was this shift that would make possible the later arrival of “Islamic modernism” in the ports of the archipelago, against which the Islam documented by Snouck Hurgronje would ultimately be juxtaposed as a rural, anti-modern, and “traditional” survival of past ages.…”
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A ascensão dos pobres a posições de elite político-administrativa no contexto do Cabo Verde pós-independente by Crisanto Barros

“…The administration of the modern Cape Verdean State, which results from profound changes instituted during the second half of the nineteenth century, is made largely by natives of the archipelago, whose recruitment was done predominantly within the most favored families. …”
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Les Comores, le Visa Balladur et l’hécatombe au large de Mayotte : une analyse transdisciplinaire de la question complexe des migrations comoriennes by Tiziano Peccia, Rachele Meda

“…The analysis of this migratory flow makes it possible studying in a transdisciplinary way several issues related to the current situation of the country, but also the role played by the Comoros archipelago in geostrategical and international dynamics. …”
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Shigemori Mirei : un regard créatif sur l’art des jardins by Murielle Hladik

“…Shigemori supervised an extensive survey throughout the whole Japanese archipelago at a time during which some of these gardens were falling into disrepair, or even disappear, whereas they are now considered as "National Treasures". …”
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Estimer les houles cycloniques à partir d’observations météorologiques limitées : exemple de la submersion d’Anaa en 1906 aux Tuamotu (Polynésie française) by Remy Canavesio

“…Hurricane swell submersion is the main natural hazard in the atolls of the Tuamotu archipelago. The analyze of recent hurricanes by high-resolution coupled models has improved the understanding of this hazard. …”
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Quelques traits généraux de la diversité sylvatique des Petites Antilles by Philippe Joseph

“…Of uneven spatial distribution on the scale of the archipelago, these differ as long from the structural and architectural point of view that biocenotique. …”
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Porosité des frontières spatiales, ambiguïté des frontières identitaires : le cas des cités-États swahili de l’archipel de Lamu (vers 1600-1800) by Thomas Vernet

“…Based on the case of the Lamu Archipelago ca.1600-1800, this paper aims to enlighten the links between social hierarchy and spatial hierarchy. …”
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The Question of Metropolitan Form: Introduction by David Prosperi, Anne Vernez Moudon, François Claessens

“…Soja’s six metaphors (post-Fordist industrial, cosmopolis, expolis, fractal city, carceral archipelago, simcities) are being indicative of the wide range of possible images.[2] The eight papers in this issue of Footprint take an opposite approach. …”
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