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The Disappearing Island: The Effect of Imminent Displacement on Social Exchange Relations on Tangier Island (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2018)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jonna Yarrington.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Tangier Island is a small, incorporated town, just over one square mile, of 470 inhabitants in the Chesapeake Bay, belonging to Accomack County, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, USA. Its residents are densely related watermen and their families--mostly white, lower income, politically conservative, Christian, and skeptical of science and climate change. Endogamous marriage is preferred,...

Strategic Alliances 1750-1820: Marriage and inheritance patterns among the first Spanish colonial settlers along the Rio Grande in Texas (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary J Galindo. Antonia Figueroa.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Gender in Historical Archaeology (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Six Nuevo Santander settlements were established along the Rio Grande in Texas and Tamaulipas. Laredo and Dolores were on the northern bank, while Revilla, Mier, Camargo, and Reynosa lined the river’s southern bank. Each municipality’s territory included 1767 land grants to settlers that straddled the Rio Grande. These...