Listar por tema "Bayano"
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In eastern Panama, land Is the key to survival
(2022-03-11)eng: The Kuna and Emberá people are Indian groups living in the Bayano region of eastern Panama. After the Bayano Hydroelectric Complex was constructed in 1976, they were forced to resettle. Recent events have imperiled ... -
Kilowatts and Crisis: Hydroelectric Power and Social Dislocation in Eastern Panama
(Westview Press;Boulder, Colorado, 2022-03-11)eng:This book describes the social history of the events surrounding the construction of the Bayano Dam and its aftermath in Eastern Panama. It clarifies the local level consequences, national motives, and the international ... -
Material culture of the people of southeastern Panama : based on specimens in the United States National Museum
(Government Printing Office, 1926.Washington, D.C., 2022-06-02)eng: Southeastern Panama is historically the oldest region of continental America. Here, early in the sixteenth century, in so-called Darien, the country extending from the Chepo or Bayano River on the Pacific slope near ... -
Reforestation amidst deforestation in the Bayano-Darién frontier, Eastern Panama: variations on the forest- transition thesis
(McGill University, 2022-02-22)eng: The literature on tropical forest-cover change observes a set of drivers responsible for transitions toward reforestation – the so-called 'forest transition'. Uncertainty still exists over how the drivers behave in ... -
The Bayano Corporation and social change: the regional consequences of macro development
(American Anthropological AssociationMuseum of Anthropology, University of Missouri--ColumbiaColumbia, Mo, 2022-03-09) -
The transformation of a frontier: State and regional relationships in Panama, 1972-1990
(Society for Applied Anthropology, 2022-03-11)eng: This article examines changing political and social relationships at local, national, and international levels, over an 18-year period during and after the construction of a hydroelectric dam project in eastern Panama. ...