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Mopan (Mayan) oral histories have preserved for over three hundred years precise details of their early contact with Spanish missionaries. The Mopan histories supplement Spanish documents in documenting significant Mopan resistance to Christian conversion and testify to an extended period in which Christianized Mopan living in Spanish mission villages coexisted as neighbours and trading partners with their non-baptized kin. From the perspective of Mopan inside the Christian villages, a specific contrast of forest to village was doubly determined, not only by Spanish policy that made forest fugitives of those who did not wish to take Christian baptism, but also by an older understanding that the forest and other wilderness areas such as the venerated mountains were the domain of supernatural and non-human creatures. Data from linguistic-anthropological analysis of voice, gaze, and manual gesture reveal how modern-day Mopan tellings present forest residence not as incidental to or the result of non-Christian identity, but instead as a crucial part of constructing, causing, or explaining that identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The epistemological debate is an inherent part of Geography, given the constant lack of definition and noted absence of unity within the discipline. Epistemological reflection not only shapes Geography's identity, but also enables it to establish its position as an independent academic field. However, in Spain, epistemological reflection in Geography has been weak. In recent years, its significance appears to be diminishing, with researchers and professors showing less concern for matters related to geographical thought, and a reduced emphasis on these topics in university education. This paper examines the content of Geography theory in Spanish university programs and assesses the epistemological discourse among Spanish geographers in academic discussions and publications. The findings indicate a regressive trend, both in the teaching of the theory of Geography and in the contributions to epistemology within academic discussions and media. This trend poses a risk to the ongoing processes of updating teaching staff and curricula in Spanish Geography. It could lead to the fragmentation of the discipline into numerous subfields, each with different theories and methods, lacking a cohesive theoretical framework. It is crucial to propose new avenues for accommodating this epistemological reflection and integrating it into university teaching. There is interest among Spanish geographers, but this interest lacks a platform in the preferred channels for publishing and disseminating academic knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The general objective of this mixed study is to analyze the students' perception about the use of the flipped classroom in the "Geographic Space" Unit 1 for the motivation and creativity during the development of the activities on the landscape concept through the Padlet virtual wall and exchange of ideas. The participants are 89 students from the High School College, Aragón campus, who took the Geography 1 course during the 2023 school year. The results indicate that the use of the Padlet virtual wall before and after the classes and the exchange of ideas in the classroom influences positively the motivation and creativity. In conclusion, the flipped classroom with the support of technology improves the teaching-learning conditions inside and outside the classroom. In the Geography 1 course, the flipped classroom modified the interaction between the participants through the Padlet virtual wall outside the classroom and the exchange of ideas in the face-to-face classes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dialectology is a discipline of linguistics that examines the geographical and sociolinguistic variation of languages in space. Dialectology usually only considers the location of linguistic variation without considering other geographical aspects that can be measured. This article presents the results of an investigation into the existence of a relevant quantitative relationship between linguistic and geographic variables through the design of a spatial model that incorporates lexical data from the Atlas Lingüístico-Etnográfico de Colombia (Linguistic-Ethnographic Atlas of Colombia) (alec), metadata collected during the expedition of the atlas and public information on different geographic phenomena regarding the explored territories. Among the results, the evaluation explained by the spatial autocorrelation index suggested that the variables: agroclimatic suitability, precipitation, geographic distance, and access roads show the most significant bivariate spatial dependence concerning linguistic distance. Furthermore, the treatment of this interaction within the geographic autoregressive mixed model of spatial regression ratified this dependence, thus confirming the relationship between linguistic variation and geographic phenomena. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Currently, the content on natural hazards has been attracting significant interest from the educational field due to the awareness-raising and training efforts carried out among the younger cohorts. The objective of this research is to analyze the images that are inserted in the school textbooks of Social Sciences (3rd cycle of Primary Education) that refer to natural hazards, the type of risk, the degree of catastrophism, and the territorial context to which they are assigned to explain these phenomena in Spain. Based on a review of the main publishers used in Spain (Anaya, Bromera, Santillana, SM, Vicens Vives), the results obtained show that, out of 640 images identified, most of them refer to droughts (38.2%) and floods (29.4%). Regarding the degree of catastrophism, 67.6% are presented with this purpose, and as for the territorial context, in the majority (79.4%) the geographical location is not known. In summary, risk education in the initial training stages is essential in the current climate change context for the formation of more informed and safer societies. However, the messages to be communicated must be based on scientific rigor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: Analyze tourism competitiveness integrating the socioeconomic part, since due to its natural and geographical conditions, Puerto Peñasco, (Rocky Point), Sonora, Mexico has a privileged place as a tourist destination with foreign and Mexican tourists, which is why the following was applied to carry out this analysis. Methodology: When applying a survey to local actors linked to tourism, with 60 items where the unit of measurement is mostly a Likert scale, the afore mentioned survey was processed with SPSS version 21 and EQS 6.1, to obtain the exploratory and factorial analysis. initially. Results: in quantitative terms, the different variables that explain the levels of tourism competitiveness are determined through a correlation analysis. Limitations: The surveys that were applied in Puerto Peñasco were carried out on actors linked to tourism, so it was not possible to include the perception of other social actors. Conclusions: Puerto Peñasco is a competitive tourist place in Sonora, which has great potential to continue growing economically, with an increase in tourism expected in the coming years and this will be reflected in the generation of added value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nowadays, six Spanish universities have renewed their degrees in Geography that were implemented according to the Royal Ordinance 1393/2007. Additionally, we have a framework more conductive to future renovation of degrees in Geography with the recent entry into force of the Organic Law of the University System and the imminent five-year update of professional profiles from the College of Geographers. In this context, and having 30 active degrees in Spain in the academic year 2021/2022, this study addresses an analysis of the current characteristics of the degrees in Geography, especially in regard to the demand evolution. To this end, we develop a hybrid documentary and quantitative methodology, based on the analytical potential of Database Management Systems and Geographic Information Systems. Cartographic and statistic results show the wide territorial coverage of the degrees in Geography and the existence of four profiles of universities with decreasing demand in contrast to only one profile of universities with positive evolution of students. Future degrees in Geography maybe will be influenced-as they did in the transition from previous to current degrees-by the existence of unresolved difficulties, such as: the time lag of the professional profiles of Geography and the rigidity of academic structures, the low interest at pre-university levels, and the persistent absence of clarity regarding the professional Geopraphy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present work constitutes a critical review of the geographical capabilities and content proposed in the study programs and books of the discipline of History and Geography at the secondary level in Paraguay based on the reform at this level. For this purpose, a documentary analysis of the prescriptions issued by the Ministry of Education and Sciences (MEC) and their contrast with official school manuals has been used using the manualistics method. In general, it was found that the majority of the proposed topics are conducive to the development of the capabilities and competencies of the discipline established as objectives, despite the apparent tension between physical geography, more traditional and increasingly out of use, and human geography, apparently more in line with current needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we collect the first data elaborated from the Moncat database that gathers data of 9,800 religious who professed between 1850 and 1936 from a systematic emptying of the population registers of Catalonia. From these data we reconstruct the geography of the origin of nuns in Catalonia, the relationship between origin and congregations, the origin of the nuns according to whether they were cities with or without a diocese and the average length of stay in the convents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Introduction: A hundred years after the passing of Andrés Manjón, aprofessor at the University of Granada, we assess his ideas on educationand evaluate his contributions to today’s teaching practice in SocialSciences Method: A literature review of all sources available is conducted. Thecriteria used to evaluate these sources will be their suitability to thesubject of study. It will consist mainly of primary and secondary sources,along with other materials and publications. After careful examination ofthese, we establish a departure point, enumerate the limitations of theexisting views on this subject and discuss some secondary findings of ourresearch along with potential areas of conflict within the subject. Results: Clarifying After the concept of specific teaching practices according toManjón has been given a clear definition, the results are classified intofive different categories: identified documentary sources, primary andsecondary; general criteria for teaching History and Geography that can beextracted from these sources; teaching techniques and strategies which canbe applied to such subjects. Transcriptions of D. Andrés’s own lessons areincluded along with adaptations made to these by some of his collaborators. Conclusions: A synthesis of the results confirms the initial hypothesis:Some aspects of Manjón’s legacy remain valid today when it comes tospecific teaching practices. This is especially true for teaching andlearning of Geography and History in primary education. Lastly, somesuggestions for the improvement of teaching practices in Social Sciencesare put forward, along with some questions for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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An ongoing concern in our discipline is to recover the contributions made to academia and society by women geographers who remain in oblivion. In this research, we have brought to light and rescued those who were trailblazers in Geography and who, probably, were models and examples for other women. After an intensive information search, forty-two women geographers from various parts of the world have been identified. With their names; year of birth and death; country of origin; awards or membership in geographical associations; contributions to academia or to society; and places explored, we have created a database that allows us to establish relationships between their biographies. The results obtained from this analysis have been structured in four sections: pioneering students and teachers in Geography, recognition by geographical societies, scientific contributions to academia and society, and places visited analyzed from a geographical perspective. Most probably, it is possible that not all of them are included, so the authors will continue their search to make them visible and prevent them from being forgotten. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the panorama of women representation in Spanish geography through the analysis of different indicators of scientific production (articles, books, and book chapters) and leadership (head of research groups, presence on scientific committees of journals and coordination of books). The study is fundamentally based on the exploitation of information from the Dialnet bibliographic portal. The analysis of leadership has been complemented with other sources of information related to research group coordination and participation in editorial committees of scientific journals. The results show a greater number of male geographers than female geographers belonging to the three geographic areas (Physical, Regional and Human) though there are slightly differences regarding the institution and the area of knowledge. Results also highlight the greater production of the males and an imbalance panorama regarding leadership. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The invisibility suffered by last century women geographers, educators, and professors as well as researchers, due to historical causes such as wars and post-wars, but also due to their gender condition, is beginning to be revealed in different ways and different countries. This text considers the double invisibility suffered by Spanish Republican women teachers of geography and history, as result of the devastating process of sanction and depuration to which all public servers were subjected in the first years of Franco's dictatorship, as a counter-reform of all the pedagogical, cultural and scientific advances of the Spanish Second Republic. Four cases have been selected from the universe of teachers of the time: Gloria Giner de los Ríos, member of the Institución Libre de Enseñanza and educator, Leonor Serrano, inspector of primary education and pioneering feminist, and two secondary school professors María and Joaquina Comas Ros. It is concluded that these and other teachers showed a culture and geographical sensibility that were very innovative for their time, depositing in geography with a feminine regard a capacity to better understand nature and protect it, to work for a less destructive exploitation of resources, environment, and landscapes, and to obtain relations more peaceful between peoples, in short, more natural and social harmonies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The central objective lies in synthesizing the use of cc and land by tourists and service providers. The methodology used was analytical of the information obtained in the cabinet and enriched with field work on the island of La Roqueta in Acapulco de Juárez, Guerrero, Mexico during the Easter and summer vacation periods from 2020 to August 2022. Between the results are: a) the seawater, being crystalline, warm, with little waves, makes free diving (snorkeling) and autonomous diving (scuba) possible and b) the ground that has contact with the seawater has fine-textured sand, beige color, average height of three meters where swimming activities, walks, among others, take place. The conclusions are: 1) extensive use of seawater for intensive tourist use and 2) the sandy soil supports four on-site restaurants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this research is to know the perception about the intercultural competence of the different members of the educational community of a publicly owned institute. The methodology used has been based on an evaluative investigation using the CIPP evaluation model (Context, Input, Process and Product) in a Geography and History classroom of the 3rd year of Compulsory Secondary Education. This article focuses on the diagnostic and product phases. For the first a non-experimental survey-type design has been used, with a cross-section and with a descriptive-comparative purpose, in which three questionnaires have been used for each of the school's educational agents: teachers, families and students. For the product phase, a scale of intercultural competence is used with the students assuming a pre-experimental static group comparison design. The results obtained legitimize and justify the need to carry out an intercultural treatment of the ESO curriculum. An intercultural intervention program has been designed, applied and evaluated. It has been analyzed if the participants have improved intercultural competence in its three areas: cognitive, affective and behavioral. The program designed, applied and evaluated provides didactic possibilities to contribute to the development and improvement of intercultural competence from the area of Geography and History. It is a good resource to discover social analysis from the intercultural parameters and, ultimately, for the knowledge of the social. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study presents the first results of a Development Cooperation project conducted in Sucumbíos (Ecuador). The strong environmental degradation of the area is mainly associated with the extraction of oil and the presence of cadmium and lead in cocoa and coffee that difficult the international commercialization of these products. It is necessary then to evaluate the state of the soil as a basis for future mitigation measures; for this, in the present work a protocol for the collection of soil, leaf and fruit samples in the study plots is designed and tested in the field. The relevant data for the study of contamination is identified and training is provided to the local professionals in charge of the project and local stakeholders. In the framework of an international cooperation project, a Territorial Information System was created in order to manage all the information collected. For this, the relevant variables of the system were identified and protocols have been generated for field sampling and data collection. A spatial database has been designed and modeled for the purpose of normalization and efficient recording of the project information that could allow future exploitation and use of the Territorial System tools. Likewise, local agents are trained in the use of this tool. In this way, it would be providing the Province with a tool for the future management of environmental and soil data allowing the statistical analysis and cartographic production made by local agents in an increasingly autonomous way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Toponymy is a discipline that studies the proper names of places. In Geography, toponyms are important because they provide information about a specific space. At present, georeferenced territorial information in digital format is of growing relevance. Therefore, the present work aims to apply geotechnologies to the treatment of toponyms at scale 1:25.000 for the sector of Ingeniero White, covered by the 3963-17-1 Bahía Blanca chart, prepared by the Instituto Geográfico Nacional (I.G.N.) (National Geographic Institute). For this purpose, a quali-quantitative methodological approach was applied, which included the gathering, selection and analysis of information, the creation of an alphanumeric database and the use of geotechnologies for the spatial treatment of toponyms and their information by means of a Geographic Information System (G.I.S.). The result was the creation of a dynamic consultation system through the use of pop-up windows that allow interaction with the geolocalized toponyms. It can be concluded that the creation of a database of toponyms and its visualization through a G.I.S. allows for the presentation of information and its consultation in a dynamic way to analyze information about changes in the names of places, in this case of Ingeniero White. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study briefly analyses the life and work of the Enlightenment thinkers who collaborated with geographer Tomás López during the 18th century to compile numerous maps illustrating and demarcating the Iberian Peninsula, as well as the Canary Islands and several American territories that belonged to Spain at the time. It also explores their relationship with the Real Sociedad Bascongada de los Amigos del País (Royal Basque Society of Friends of the Country). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1618 the Italian Jesuit Jerónimo de Angelis traveled to Ezo, now Hokkaidô, an island located north of Japan and which, at that time, was an uncharted territory for both, Europeans and Japanese. The objective of this journey was to assess the suitability of this land and its inhabitants, the Ainu ethnicity, to receive Christianity. This article analyzes the report that De Angelis wrote about his trip to inform the superiors of the Society of Jesus in Rome. This document, unpublished until now, contains detailed information about the livelihood, character and spirituality of the Ainu people, which, in addition to being of great value for the study of Japanese Christianity, can be considered as an early example of modern ethnographic analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El presente trabajo de investigación se centra en el estudio de la jurisdicción de la Axarquía de Málaga y ṭā'a de Comares y de algunas de sus alquerías a finales de la Edad Media. El estudio de los topónimos y microtopónimos de origen preárabe, árabe y castellano nos sirve para marcarnos el objetivo de recomponer el paisaje y el territorio medieval, con conocimiento también de los hitos geográficos y constructivos. Para ello se ha hecho uso de documentación de deslindamientos, inserta la mayoría en los repartimientos de Comares, Málaga y Vélez del siglo XV y en los apeos y repartimientos de varias villas de la Axarquía del siglo XVI. Se efectúa el deslindamiento de la Axarquía de Málaga, pero también el de la ṭā'a de Comares, identificándose la denominación de las sierras, ríos e incluso alquerías y atalayas. Igualmente, incluimos el deslindamiento de Almáchar, Benamargosa, Comares, Cútar, El Borge, Benaque, Macharaviaya, Olías y las heredades de Auta y Zuque, las tierras de Lapuri y Montaeyl y la Dehesa del Rey para terminar de recomponer el paisaje y territorio medieval, incluyendo el origen etimológico y el significado de la mayor parte de los diferentes topónimos y microtopónimos. This research focuses on the jurisdiction of the Axarquía of Málaga and the ṭā'a of Comares and of some of its villages at the end of the Middle Ages. The study of place names and microtoponyms of pre-Arabic, Arabic and Castilian origin is useful for our objective of recomposing the landscape and the medieval territory, with knowledge of the geographical and constructive milestones also. To do so, documentation of demarcations has been used, most of them inserted in the distributions of the lands of Comares, Málaga and Vélez of the fifteenth century and in the apeos and repartimientos documents of several villages of the Axarquía of the sixteenth century. The demarcation of the Axarquía of Málaga is described, as well as that of the ṭā'a of Comares, along with the denomination of the mountains, rivers and even villages and watchtowers. We include the demarcation of Almáchar, Benamargosa, Comares, Cútar, El Borge, Benaque, Macharaviaya, Olías and the estates of Auta and Zuque, the lands of Lapuri and Montaeyl and the Dehesa del Rey to offer a complete recomposition of the medieval landscape and territory, including the etymological origin and meaning of most of the different toponyms and microtoponyms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Though immigration to Argentina of people with connections to the national socialist government has received a lot of scientific and media attention in the last years, the National University of Tucumán's boom and the role scientists with national socialist connections played in this has hardly been studied. From the perspective of geography, and also from beyond said disciplinary viewpoint, this research note analyzes the nexus between the rise of the National University of Tucumán and the arrival of German scientists in the 1940s and 1950s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is not known for sure where W. J. Blaeu was born, although it seems certain that it was in the city of Alkmaar or its surroundings. When he was very young he moved to Amsterdam. His interest in mathematics and astronomy came to the fore very early, an interest he would see satisfied during his stay at the observatory on the Danish island of Hven, directed by Tycho Brahe, from the end of 1595 until May 27, 1596. The time in which W. Blaeu was a disciple of T. Brahe was extremely profitable, since he applied the acquired knowledge in the construction of numerous globes, celestial and terrestrial, of different diameters, as well as in the formation of maps and plans. His prolific scientific activity made him an obligatory reference in the mathematical geography of the 17th century, the century of atlases or the golden age of Dutch cartography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The natural environment and historical evolution, together with different cultures and religions, have shaped Africa's unique and diverse urban fabric. Although Africa remains the least urbanized continent in the world, its cities are subject to processes of macrocephaly and are driven by an accelerated rate of growth. The analysis focuses on a large number of filmed movies that make it possible to approach a study that offers theoretical reflections on the relationship between audiovisual fiction and urban areas in that continent in order to know what spaces are represented, what are their characteristics and what urban imaginaries the African city projects. From a methodological point of view, a broad approach is used, related to Landscape Geography and Cultural Geography, and the study is limited to the films of the last decades. Among the results we can highlight the existence of new visual references and new interpretative keys that allow us to characterize the current urban landscapes of Africa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]