DIVIn this groundbreaking book Andrew Sluyter demonstrates for the first time that Africans played significant creative roles in establishing open-range cattle ranching in the Americas. In so doing, he provides a new way of looking at and studying the history of land, labor, property, and commerce in the Atlantic world./div DIVSluyter shows that Africans’ ideas and creativity helped to establish a production system so fundamental to the environmental and social relations of the American colonies that the consequences persist to the present. He examines various methods of cattle production, compares these methods to those used in Europe and the Americas, and traces the networks of actors that linked that Atlantic world. The use of archival documents, material culture items, and ecological relationships between landscape elements make this book a methodologically and substantively original contribution to Atlantic, African-American, and agricultural history./div

This document reports on a meeting held to discuss means of reducing discrepancies between tuna statistics held in different databases. The statistical system, i.e. methods of collection, analysis and dissemination of data of the various agencies were described and papers describing these are given as appendices to this report. The principal function of FAO, with regard to tuna statistics, was noted to be the provision of a global overview of world tuna production by species and by countries and it was agreed that in the performance of this function FAO could be much helped by close cooperation with the regional agencies. In turn, the agencies indicated their readiness to cooperate. To further this objective the agencies proposed an informal arrangement for the exchange of data and the holding of periodic inter-agency meetings to discuss problems which have arisen in the process and to further steps for the standardization of procedures for the collection of such data.

Analyzes the explosive connections among strategic uses of humor, women's bodies, and resistance in fiction by Latin American women writers.