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This volume examines the impact of and responses to historic earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in the Azores. Study is placed in the contexts of: the history and geography of this fascinating archipelago; progress being made in predicting future events and policies of disaster risk reduction.This is the only volume to consider the earthquake and volcanic histories of the Azores across the whole archipelago and is based, not only on contemporary published research, but also on the detailed study of archival source materials. The authors seek to show how extreme environmental events, as expressed through eruptions, earthquakes and related processes operating in the past may be considered using both complementary scientific and social scientific perspectives in order to reveal the ways in which Azorean society has been shaped by both an isolated location in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and the ever present threat of environmental uncertainty. Chapter 2, which analyses in depth the geology and tectonics of the islands is of more specialist interest, but technical terms are fully explained so as to widen the accessibility of this material.The audience for this volume includes all those who are interested in the geology, geography, history and hazard responses in the Azores. It is written, not just for the educated general reader, but for the specialist earth scientist and hazard researcher.
Earthquakes. --- Séismes --- Volcanoes. --- Volcans --- Azores --- Açores. --- History.
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As Festas do Espírito Santo nos Açores. Um Estudo de Antropologia Social procura interrogar um dos mais complexos e sedutores rituais que integram o calendário cerimonial em Portugal. Desenvolvendo-se a partir da observação intensiva dos Impérios numa freguesia da ilha de Santa Maria, o estudo percorre depois, numa perspectiva comparativa, outras ilhas açorianas. Com base no relevo que tem nas Festas do Espírito Santo um conjunto muito diversificado de dádivas e contra-dádivas de alimentos cerimoniais, o autor propõe uma interpretação do ritual assente na consideração simultânea da sua dimensão religiosa, da sua relação com os principais círculos de relacionamento social e do vínculo que ele exibe com as formas de conceptualização do tempo nas comunidades estudadas. Aspectos controversos como a procura de prestígio individual através das despesas requeridas pelos festejos ou as relações entre povo e clero em torno do ritual são também examinados. Pela natureza dos problemas discutidos, As Festas do Espírito Santo nos Açores constitui não apenas uma contribuição para uma Antropologia Social do arquipélago, mas uma oportunidade para o reexame de alguns dossiers mais genéricos relacionados com o estudo antropológico das comunidades rurais em domínio europeu.
Pentecost --- Festivals --- Azores --- Social life and customs. --- Days --- Manners and customs --- Anniversaries --- Fasts and feasts --- Pageants --- Processions --- Church --- Holy Spirit --- Foundation --- Açores --- Autonomous Region of the Azores --- Azoren --- Azorenraum --- Azorerna --- Azoresu Shotō --- Azorit --- Governo Regional dos Açores --- Região Autónoma dos Açores --- Regio Autonoma Azorensis --- Regional Government of the Azores --- アゾレス諸島 --- anthropology --- festivals --- popular culture --- immaterial culture --- rituals
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Richard Hakluyt's 12-volume Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, originally published at the end of the sixteenth century, and reissued by the Cambridge Library Collection in the edition of 1903-5, was followed in 1625 by Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his Pilgrimes, now reissued in a 20-volume edition published in 1905-7. When first published in four folio volumes, the work was the largest ever printed in England. An Anglican priest, Samuel Purchas (1577-1626) was a friend of Hakluyt, and based his great work in part on papers not published by Hakluyt before his death. As well as being a wide-ranging survey of world exploration, it is notable as an anti-Catholic polemic, and a justification of British settlement in North America. Volume 20 covers the capture of Cadiz by the earl of Essex in 1596, and a voyage to the Azores; it concludes with an index to all twenty volumes.
Cádiz Expedition, 1596 --- Essex, Robert Devereux, --- Azores --- Description and travel --- Capture of Cádiz, 1596 --- Anglo-Spanish War, 1585-1604 --- Boreus, Roberto de, --- De Boreus, Roberto, --- Devereux, Robert, --- D'Evreux, Robert, --- Essex, --- Essexia, Roberto de Boreus, --- Robert, --- Roberto, --- Açores --- Autonomous Region of the Azores --- Azoren --- Azorenraum --- Azorerna --- Azoresu Shotō --- Azorit --- Governo Regional dos Açores --- Região Autónoma dos Açores --- Regio Autonoma Azorensis --- Regional Government of the Azores --- アゾレス諸島
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