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16 novembre 2020
- doi: 10.4000/books.pulm.5548
- isbn: 9782367812915
- eisbn: 9782367813639
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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écotones Guyane française Guyana Suriname migration travail engagé ecotones French Guyane Guyana Suriname migration indentured labour Geography SOC015000 RGCSujets proches
Streams Creeks Brooks Runs (Rivers) People Man Humanity (Human beings) Human race Mankind Homo sapiens Humankind HumansCiter ce document
T. J. Cribb, « Re-writing Man in the Guyanas », Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, ID : 10.4000/books.pulm.5548
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It is a commonplace that most people in the three Guyanas live on the narrow strip of ground along the coast. This pattern of settlement is because the three nations share the same fundamental geology defining the region, the Guyana Shield. The Shield’s boundaries to the north, west and south are marked by two giant rivers, the Orinoco and the Amazon, each springing from the Andes. It is drained by no fewer than 47 principal rivers of its own, and the fringe of coastal ground between the Shie...