In 1981, James F. Cherry embarked on what evolved into a passionate, personal quest to identify and document all the known headpots of Mississippian Indian culture from northeast Arkansas and the ...bootheel region of southeast Missouri. Produced by two groups the Spanish called the Casqui and Pacaha and dating circa AD 1400-1700, headpots occur, with few exceptions, only in a small region of Arkansas and Missouri. Relatively little is known about these headpots: did they portray kinsmen or enemies, the living or the dead or were they used in ceremonies, in everyday life, or exclusively for the sepulcher? Cherry's decades of research have culminated in the lavishly illustrated The Headpots of Northeast Arkansas and Southern Pemiscot County, Missouri, a fascinating, comprehensive catalog of 138 identified classical style headpots and an invaluable resource for understanding the meaning of these remarkable ceramic vessels.
Alonso de Barzana fue uno de los primeros misioneros jesuitas en las Indias Occidentales españolas. Su inspiración fue San Francisco Javier, lo que lo llevó a convertirse en un Francisco Javier de ...América Latina, en palabras de un coetáneo suyo, tanto en santidad personal como en celo apostólico. Roturó mucho territorio misional (Perú, Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay) y aprendió 11 lenguas nativas, de las que dejó instrumentos lingüísticos y catequéticos.
In the last few years, a theological trend has developed in France that is committed to listening to the words of people in precarious situations. In the tradition of Father Joseph Wresinski, founder ...of ATD Fourth World, this theological movement seeks to hear the joys, the struggles, the hopes, the dreams, and the faith of those who live on the margins of the world. They are the first to be affected by social and environmental injustices. They are the first to fight poverty. They are the first to invent a sustainable way of life. Listening to and taking seriously the experiences and words of the very poor opens up new perspectives for theology, especially in the ecological field. Indeed, the link between the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor has become commonplace. According to the World Bank, it is even “evidence”. Certainly “everything is linked”, as Pope Francis writes in Laudato Si’, but the characterization of this link must be deepened. It is not simply a matter of juxtaposing these two cries, but of perceiving that it is only from the most excluded that fair, effective, and sustainable solutions can be proposed. Bringing their words and thoughts into our modern agoras is an essential anthropological, political, and theological challenge for ecological conversion.
Winner of the 2002 John Gilmary Shea Prize and the 2002 Howard R. Marraro Prize of the American Catholic Historical Association. When Saint Francis of Assisi died in 1226, he left behind an order ...already struggling to maintain its identity. As the Church called upon Franciscans to be bishops, professors, and inquisitors, their style of life began to change. Some in the order lamented this change and insisted on observing the strict poverty practiced by Francis himself. Others were more open to compromise. Over time, this division evolved into a genuine rift, as those who argued for strict poverty were marginalized within the order. In this book, David Burr offers the first comprehensive history of the so-called Spiritual Franciscans, a protest movement within the Franciscan order. Burr shows that the movement existed more or less as a loyal opposition in the late thirteenth century, but by 1318 Pope John XXII and leaders of the order had combined to force it beyond the boundaries of legitimacy. At that point the loyal opposition turned into a heretical movement and recalcitrant friars were sent to the stake. Although much has been written about individual Spiritual Franciscan leaders, there has been no general history of the movement since 1932. Few people are equipped to tackle the voluminous documentary record and digest the sheer mass of research generated by Franciscan scholars in the last century. Burr, one of the world's leading authorities on the Franciscans, has given us a book that will define the field for years to come.
We have developed an algorithm to map benthic habitats on the continental shelf of South Africa, integrating marine geophysics and biological science. Multibeam bathymetry, backscatter and Remotely ...Operated Vehicle (ROV) footage were collected on the inner continental shelf of Cape St Francis and the hydroacoustic data were processed using machine learning clustering techniques. The k-means clustering algorithm was used to map the distribution of sediment at different depths. ROV footage was classified using the Collaborative and Automated Tools for Analysis of Marine Imagery (CATAMI) substrata classification scheme. Eight ROV dives along the three transects located off Seal Point, Cape St. Francis Point and within the bay were collected, and ranged from 30 to 80 m in depth. The most common Phyla in order from greatest to least abundance were; Cnidaria, Mollusca, Echinodermata, Chordata (fish species), Arthropoda (Subphylum Crustacea), Bryozoa, Porifera and Chordata (Class Ascidiacea), these were identified both on rocky substrate and sand. The first benthic habitat map of the Cape St. Francis area revealed ten different habitat types, accounting for geology, topography, and sediment cover. This work builds on an ongoing method development that incorporates broader habitat types from a range of substrates, enhancing the robustness of the algorithm, and will aid in improving our current understanding of the relationships between biota and physical habitats along the continental shelf of South Africa.
•Multibeam bathymetry, backscatter and Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) footage were processed using machine learning clustering.•K-means clustering algorithm was used to map the distribution of sediment at different depths within the study area.•The ROV footage was classified using Collaborative and Automated Tools for Analysis of Marine Imagery (CATAMI).•The benthic habitat map of Cape St. Francis created using machine learning techniques revealed ten different habitat types.
Best management practices (BMPs) are effective in reducing the transport of agricultural nonpoint source pollutants to receiving water bodies. However, selection of BMPs for placement in a watershed ...requires optimization of the available resources to obtain maximum possible pollution reduction. In this study, an optimization methodology is developed to select and place BMPs in a watershed to provide solutions that are both economically and ecologically effective. This novel approach develops and utilizes a BMP tool, a database that stores the pollution reduction and cost information of different BMPs under consideration. The BMP tool replaces the dynamic linkage of the distributed parameter watershed model during optimization and therefore reduces the computation time considerably. Total pollutant load from the watershed, and net cost increase from the baseline, were the two objective functions minimized during the optimization process. The optimization model, consisting of a multiobjective genetic algorithm (NSGA-II) in combination with a watershed simulation tool (Soil Water and Assessment Tool (SWAT)), was developed and tested for nonpoint source pollution control in the L'Anguille River watershed located in eastern Arkansas. The optimized solutions provided a trade-off between the two objective functions for sediment, phosphorus, and nitrogen reduction. The results indicated that buffer strips were very effective in controlling the nonpoint source pollutants from leaving the croplands. The optimized BMP plans resulted in potential reductions of 33%, 32%, and 13% in sediment, phosphorus, and nitrogen loads, respectively, from the watershed.
Abordamos en este artículo que el emplazamiento de la primera casa de los franciscanos en la ciudad de México (1524-1525), lejos de estar completamente despejado, presenta aún profundos claroscuros ...para la investigación de los estadios más tempranos en la historia de la urbe novohispana. Se cuestionan las propuestas previas de localización de este prístino inmueble —Catedral y colindancias de la actual Plaza de la Constitución— a la luz del análisis de material archivístico inédito, y en íntima conexión con varias fuentes cronísticas de factura indígena. Tras el examen de tales evidencias, se plantea que San Francisco el Viejo se ubicó en los predios relacionados con el antiguo convento de Santa Clara (Tacuba 29, Alcaldía Cuauhtémoc, Ciudad de México). Es más: esta propuesta en torno a la primera ubicación franciscana pretende abrir la puerta para replantearnos la forma de pensar la organización urbana en estos primeros años después de la Conquista.
Sister Death Marovich, Beatrice
2023, 2023-02-07
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Drawing on a wide range of sources--from Toni Morrison to Derrida to grassroots "death positive" movements--Beatrice Marovich critiques a political theology that pits life and death against each ...other in a state of endless war. Adapting the figure of "Sister Death" from Saint Francis, she calls for recognizing that life and death are family.
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