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    Chan An Ancient Maya Farming Community

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    The farming community of Chan thrived for over twenty centuries, surpassing the longevity of many larger Maya urban centers. Between 800 BC and 1200 AD it was a major food production center, and this collection of essays reveals the important role played by Maya farmers in the development of ancient Maya society. Chan offers a synthesis of compelling and groundbreaking discoveries gathered over ten years of research at this one archaeological site in Belize. The contributors develop three central themes, which structure the book. They examine how sustainable farming practices maintained the surrounding forest, allowing the community to exist for two millennia. They trace the origins of elite Maya state religion to the complex religious belief system developed in small communities such as Chan. Finally, they describe how the group-focused political strategies employed by local leaders differed from the highly hierarchical strategies of the Classic Maya kings in their large cities. In breadth, methodology, and findings, this volume scales new heights in the study of Maya society and culture.Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introducing the Chan Site: Farmers in Complex Societies -- Part 1. Time, Space, and Landscapes -- 2. A Changing Cultural Landscape: Settlement Survey and GIS at Chan -- 3. Ceramics and Chronology at Chan -- 4. Agricultural Practices at Chan: Farming and Political Economy in an Ancient Maya Community -- 5. Agroforestry and Agricultural Production of the Ancient Maya at Chan -- Part 2. Life in a Farming Community Center -- 6. Ritual in a Farming Community -- 7. Nonroyal Governance at Chan's Community Center -- 8. "Empty" Spaces and Public Places: A Microscopic View of Chan's Late Classic West Plaza -- Part 3. Diversity across the Chan Community -- 9. Recognizing Difference in Small-Scale Settings: An Examination of Social Identity Formation at the Northeast Group, Chan -- 10. Organization of Chert Tool Economy during the Late and Terminal Classic Periods at Chan: Preliminary Thoughts Based upon Debitage Analyses -- 11. Limestone Quarrying and Household Organization at Chan -- Part 4. Bodies, Material Culture, and Meaning -- 12. The Chan Community: A Bioarchaeological Perspective -- 13. Creating Community with Shell -- 14. Obsidian Acquisition, Trade, and Regional Interaction at Chan -- 15. Contextualizing Ritual Behavior: Caches, Burials, and Problematical Deposits from Chan's Community Center -- Part 5. Conclusion -- 16. Learning from an Ancient Maya Farming Community -- References -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- YThe farming community of Chan thrived for over twenty centuries, surpassing the longevity of many larger Maya urban centers. Between 800 BC and 1200 AD it was a major food production center, and this collection of essays reveals the important role played by Maya farmers in the development of ancient Maya society. Chan offers a synthesis of compelling and groundbreaking discoveries gathered over ten years of research at this one archaeological site in Belize. The contributors develop three central themes, which structure the book. They examine how sustainable farming practices maintained the surrounding forest, allowing the community to exist for two millennia. They trace the origins of elite Maya state religion to the complex religious belief system developed in small communities such as Chan. Finally, they describe how the group-focused political strategies employed by local leaders differed from the highly hierarchical strategies of the Classic Maya kings in their large cities. In breadth, methodology, and findings, this volume scales new heights in the study of Maya society and culture.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries

    Primary Care Activity Level 2022 - Preliminary Report by the UMass Chan Analytics Group and MassHealth

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    UMass Chan Medical School has worked with the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) since 2014 to develop risk models for MassHealth to account for how social determinants of health (SDH) and medical complexity jointly predict total health care cost.i The Primary Care Activity Level (PCAL) framework was originally developed by Ash and Ellis in 2012 to calculate risk-adjusted bundled payments for comprehensive primary care in a commercially insured population.ii It was designed to recognize patient differences in the expected cost of all services that primary care practitioners (PCPs) should be providing. Payments based on PCAL are higher for medically and/or socially complex patients than for less complex ones. In 2023 MassHealth is implementing a Primary Care Capitation program for Accountable Care Organization (ACO) primary care (PC) practices, which extends value-based payment to the provider level. Complex patients need more PC services to manage their needs than less complex patients do, yet such differences in patient complexity are not adequately reflected in fee-for-service reimbursements for primary care procedures. Here we present the development of a PCAL model that can be used to adjust primary care capitation payments based on the health status of each member; the model has been fit to MassHealth-specific data and in consideration of the state’s policy goals

    Marianne Chan: 47th Annual ODU Literary Festival

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    Marianne Chan grew up in Stuttgart, Germany, and Lansing, Michigan. She is the author of All Heathens (Sarabande Books, 2020), which was the winner of the 2021 GLCA New Writers Award. Her second collection, Leaving Biddle City, was published from Sarabande Books in July of this year. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Best American Poetry, New England Review, Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Old Dominion University and teaches poetry in the Warren Wilson College MFA program for Writers

    Chan. Al. Appelmans, La protection des animaux

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    Lemaire J. Chan. Al. Appelmans, La protection des animaux. In: Revue néo-scolastique de philosophie. 20ᵉ année, n°79, 1913. p. 404

    Chan. Al. Appelmans, La protection des animaux

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    Lemaire J. Chan. Al. Appelmans, La protection des animaux. In: Revue néo-scolastique de philosophie. 20ᵉ année, n°79, 1913. p. 404

    Coulter, Chan L., July 23, 1996 [Interview]

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    Professor of Philosophy Chan L. Coulter was interviewed on June 17, 1996, by Michael Birkner and David Hedrick about his career at Gettysburg College, including memorable colleagues, classes, and controversies.Dunn, Seymour B.; Glatfelter, Charles H.; Hanson, C. Arnold; Crapster, Basil L.; Barnes, Robert D.; Baskerville, Edward J.; Mara, Richard T.; Qually, Ingolf; Bugbee, Bruce W.; Richardson, Norman E.; Bolich, Harry F.; Arms, Richard A.; Mason, Francis C.; Taylor, Kathrine Kressmann; Schmidt, Emile O.; Glassick, Charles E.; Potts, David B.Willard S. Paul Years; Carl Arnold Hanson Years; Charles E. Glassick Years; Gordon A. Haaland Year

    Inauguración del XXIII Simposio Román Piña Chan. Zonas Arqueológicas en Contextos Urbanos. <p>XXIII Simposio Román Piña Chan.Zonas Arqueológicas en Contextos Urbanos<p>

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    El acto inaugural del XXIII Simposio Román Piña Chan “Zonas arqueológicas en contextos urbanos”, tuvo lugar el 6 de noviembre de 2018, en la Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH). El Simposio fue inaugurado por el Antrop. Diego Prieto Hernández, Director General del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, en compañía de otras autoridades del INAH así como investigadores, docentes, alumnos y público en general.</p

    Anyuon Chan

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    abstract: Anyuon left his village in 1989 during the middle of the night. “Lost Boys Found” is an ongoing, interdisciplinary project that is collecting, recording and archiving the oral histories of the Lost Boys/Girls of Sudan. The collection is a work-in-progress, seeking to record the oral history of as many Lost Boys/Girls as are willing, and will be used in a future book.Age: 22Region: Bahr al GhazalThis picture and bio was donated to the Lost Boys Found project from The Arizona Lost Boys Cente

    Marianne Chan, 46th Annual ODU Literary Festival

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    Marianne Chan grew up in Stuttgart, Germany, and Lansing, Michigan. After she earned her B.A. in English from Michigan State University, she went on to study poetry at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she earned her MFA. Marianne is the author of All Heathens, which was the winner of the 2021 GLCA New Writers Award in Poetry, the 2021 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry, and the 2022 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for Outstanding Achievement. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, New England Review, Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Between 2017-2019, she served as poetry editor for Split Lip Magazine. She is a Kundiman fellow. She lives in Norfolk, Virginia . She is married to the fiction writer Clancy McGilligan
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