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Un demi-siècle de présence du mouflon dans le massif du Caroux (Hérault) : de l'expérience naturaliste à la valorisation de la ressource et à la gestion du territoire
No full textIntroduite en 1956 dans le Caroux
(Hérault), la population de mouflons s'est fortement développée. Symbole du massif pour les
touristes, le mouflon constitue aussi une ressource pour le tourisme cynégétique, mais la progres- sion spontanée de la forêt, contre laquelle les
acteurs locaux s'efforcent d'agir, réduit l'extension des habitats qui lui sont propices.Derioz Pierre, Grillo Xavier. Un demi-siècle de présence du mouflon dans le massif du Caroux (Hérault) : de l'expérience naturaliste à la valorisation de la ressource et à la gestion du territoire. In: Revue de géographie alpine, tome 94, n°4, 2006. La montagne comme ménagerie / Mountain areas as menageries sous la direction de Isabelle Mauz. pp. 27-35
A saga de um clã Xavier
No full textThe book brings together historical memories of the Xavier family, of which the author is a member, and includes everything from the heroic episode between members of the Xavier family and Lampião's gang, to a Xavier family tree and tributes to the members of this family, as well as photographic records of known members. The author rescues and preserves important memories of the family, reconstructing facts that, if told orally, could gradually be erased. The story told by Maria do Socorro Cardoso Xavier is also a way of preserving the memory of Ipueira, reporting on the social life and historical setting of the place, using family narrative.O livro reúne registros de memórias históricas da família Xavier, da qual a autora é membro,
e traz desde o episódio heróico entre membros da família Xavier e o bando de Lampião, à
uma árvore genealógica dos Xavier e homenagens aos membros dessa famílias, além de
registros fotográficos dos membros conhecidos. A autora resgata e preserva memórias
importantes da família, reconstituindo fatos que, contados oralmente, poderiam se apagar aos
poucos. A história narrada por Maria do Socorro Cardoso Xavier também é uma forma de
preservar a memória de Ipueira, relatando sobre a vida social e cenário histórico do lugar,
utilizando da narrativa familiar
Grillo, Evelio
No full textEvelio Grillo, the son of black Cuban cigar makers in Tampa, Florida, was born in 1919, in Ybor City, an immigrant enclave whose population was predominantly Cuban, Spanish, and Sicilian. When the Cuban population, which was the largest of the three primary ethnic cohorts, had started arriving, in 1885, from Key West and Cuba, its members were approximately 15 percent Afro-Cuban, or darker skinned, and 75 percent white, or lighter-skinned. The number of black Cubans later dwindled significantly, in the 1930s and 1940s, because of the Depression and drastically reduced employment opportunities. Many Cuban immigrants headed North to New York City and other urban centers in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic searching for and finding better work, more educational opportunities, and more Afro-Latin people and communities to mingle and join forces with, which led to their major involvement in Northern civil rights efforts.
Grillo grew up on the “unofficial” border between Ybor City proper and a small, marginalized, African American area between Ybor City and downtown Tampa known as the Scrub. Early on, he came to feel somewhat alienated from his white Cuban counterparts, despite the fact he and they shared a great deal in common—language, history, culture, and religion. The idea of racial unity that had been promoted by José Martí and other Cuban leaders and intellectuals in the years leading up to and during the 1895 Cuban War of Independence, and which had never really totally existed, was quickly abandoned.
Eventually, thanks to an extraordinary school experience that took him out of Tampa and to Washington, DC, he became more comfortable and functional in the African American world of Tampa and elsewhere. Grillo ended up receiving a first-rate education at Dunbar High School in the Capitol; earned a bachelor of arts degree at Xavier University, in New Orleans, Louisiana; took three years of courses in Latin American history at Columbia University, in New York City, after the war; and then moved to Oakland, California, to work and earn a master’s degree in social welfare at the University of California, Berkeley.
After completing his undergraduate degree at Xavier, Grillo had been drafted into the US Army—the segregated army—and was shipped to India with the 853rd Engineering Battalion to build roads. While there, the developed many talents that he would later synthesize and that served him well later on in life, for example, community organizing, administration, research and writing, communications, and dealing with institutionalized racism and discrimination.
Upon moving to Oakland, he took a position in a community center, and after earning his master’s degree from Berkeley, he continued to be involved in community, social, and political organizing. He was active in in local politics and black, Mexican, and Latina/o affairs and initiatives at the national, governmental, and nonprofit levels, working, for example, for the City of Oakland, in the administration of President Jimmy Carter, the War on Poverty, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Community Service Organization, and had the opportunity to work with the likes of Herman Gallegos, César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, Fred Ross, and Saul Alinsky.</p
The 50th anniversary of the introduction of the mouflon to the Caroux (Hérault) massif: from naturalistic experiment to land management and the development of a resource
No full textAbstract : The mouflon sheep population in the Caroux massif in the French department (département) of Hérault has
increased substantially since the animal was
introduced to the area in 1956. The mouflon is not only a symbol of the area for tou-
rists but also a resource for hunting tourism. However, the spontaneous advance of the
forest, which local actors are striving to halt,
is limiting the expansion of suitable habitats
for the animal.Derioz Pierre, Grillo Xavier, Keogh Brian. The 50th anniversary of the introduction of the mouflon to the Caroux (Hérault) massif: from naturalistic experiment to land management and the development of a resource. In: Revue de géographie alpine, tome 94, n°4, 2006. La montagne comme ménagerie / Mountain areas as menageries sous la direction de Isabelle Mauz. pp. 36-45
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Sir William Collins and Xavier Herbert
No full textSir William Collins, publisher and Xavier Herbert, author. Hand written comment about the photograph by Xavier Herbert on verso. [Gift of David Rowbotham
San Xavier District pedestrian access and safety study : final report
No full textabstract: The San Xavier District of the Tohono O’odham Nation is home to approximately 2,000 people. Numerous others come to the District to visit the San Xavier del Bac Mission Church. The San Xavier District Pedestrian Access and Safety Study is being prepared to improve the walking and bicycling environment on the San Xavier District for Community members and visitors alike. The study is being funded by the Arizona Department of Transportation Multimodal Planning Division’s Planning Assistance for Rural Areas program.Includes bibliographical references
Interview with Xavier Aldana Reyes
No full textXavier Aldana Reyes is Reader in English Literature and Film in Manchester, a founding member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies, and the author of Spanish Gothic: National Identity, Collaboration and Cultural Adaptation (2017) and Gothic Cinema (2019). His publications in Gothic and horror studies include Twenty-First-Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion (with Maisha Wester; 2019), Horror: A Literary History (2016) and Digital Horror: Haunted Technologies, Network Panic and the Found Footage Phenomenon (with Linnie Blake; 2015). Aldana Reyes also edited fiction anthologies for the British Library series, Tales of the Weird, including the following titles: The Gothic Tales of H.P. Lovecraft (2018), The Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgson (2019), Promethean Horrors: Classic Tales of Mad Science (2019) and Roarings from Further Out: Four Weird Novellas, by Algernon Blackwood (2019)
Xavier Albó: Memoria, Crónica, Perfil
No full textAuthor historicizes the monumental contribution to the study of Quechua of linguist and anthropologist Xavier Albó. Author recalls Albó's early linguistic and anthropological influence during the late 1960s as a clear inspiration to study Quechua linguistics, the largest indigenous language spoken today in the Americas
Digital Gothic : an interview with Xavier Aldana Reyes
No full textXavier Aldana Reyes is Reader/Associate Professor in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University and a founder member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies. He is author of Gothic Cinema (2020), Spanish Gothic (2017), Horror Film and Affect (2016) and Body Gothic (2014), and editor of Twenty-First-Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion (with Maisha Wester, 2019), Horror: A Literary History (2016) and Digital Horror (with Linnie Blake, 2015). Xavier is chief editor of the Horror Studies book series at the University of Wales Press, and has edited anthologies of Gothic and horror fiction for the British Library. One of Xavier's research interests is the optical dynamics of found footage horror films. On this topic, he has published an article on narrative framing for Gothic Studies, and chapters on affective immersion in the film [REC] (2007) and viewer involvement and guilt in The Last Horror Movie (2003). More recently, he wrote a chapter on 'Online Gothic' that considers social media found footage horror for the collection The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic (2022)
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