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autochthon

[ȯ′täk·thən]

(geology)

A succession of rock beds that have been moved comparatively little from their original site of formation, although they may be folded and faulted extensively.

(paleontology)

A fossil occurring where the organism once lived.

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It is Geschiere who has suggested the term 'autochthony' for this phenomenon (from the Greek--being of the soil), a word which is already in use in the Netherlands and in the Francophone world to make the crucial difference between the 'autochthones' who belong and the 'allochthones' who do not.

The double crisis of governability and governmentality: potential political responses to living in a risky global environment

Neither nitrite concentrations used in the manufacture of fresh sausages, nor storage temperatures effectively controlled the development of autochthone psychrotrophic microbiota.

Behavior of Staphylococcus aureus and autochthone microbiota in fresh sausages added of sodium nitrite and stored under refrigeration/Comportamento de Staphylococcus aureus e microbiota autoctone frente a acao de nitrito de sodio em linguicas frescais estocadas sob refrigeracao

Oppong (1971) describes the Dagbon state as the amalgam of autochthones and an immigrant ruling class.

Decolonizing Our Library System: The Living Librarians (Baansi) of Dagbon, Northern Ghana

In this contribution, we focus on the enumeration, classification, and subsequent graphic visualization of subpopulations considered as "other." In particular, we look at the ways immigrant populations in Germany and the Netherlands are graphically visualized as residing at a certain distance from what is--in the statistical work we take as object of our analysis--either called "society," the "natives," or "autochthones." As an example of the type of statistical visualizations we focus on, consider Figure 1.

Imagining society: logics of visualization in images of immigrant integration

This paper presents a case study of development negotiations in a small village in the southernmost Tombali region of Guinea-Bissau, ethnically divided between the Nalu autochthones and Balanta immigrants.

Negotiating development: valuation of a guesthouse project in Southern Guinea-Bissau

Quebec: Publication prepared by the Secretariat aux affaires autochthones. Quebec: Department of Indian and Northern Affairs; 1997.

Analysis of the social and health impacts of large hydroelectric plants: lessons for a sustainable energy management/Analise dos impactos sociais e a saude de grandes empreendimentos hidreletricos: licoes para uma gestao energetica sustentavel

The status of the West African fish Gobius nigricinctus with reference to New World autochthones and an Old World colour-analogue.

Review of the western Atlantic species of Bollmannia (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Gobiosomatini) with the description of a new allied genus and species

Among the species reported 19 (59 %) are autochthones and 13 (41 %) are introduced.

New and little known giant earthworms from Madagascar (Oligochaeta: Kynotidae)

Represented as the 'first inhabitants of the torrid zone', 'more brutish and fierce' than their conquerors, these supposed black autochthones remained 'sole masters of their ancient possessions' only in New Holland and 'other unknown southern lands' (1756, I:16, 77-80; II:375-80).

Geography, raciology, and the naming of Oceania

After having stripped the autochthones of their land, nothing more remained but to strip them of their bodies.