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autochthon
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au·toch·thon  (ô-tkthn)
n. pl. au·toch·thons or au·toch·tho·nes (-th-nz)
1. One of the earliest known inhabitants of a place; an aborigine.
2. Ecology An indigenous plant or animal.
[Greek autokhthn : auto-, auto- + khthn, earth; see dhghem- in Indo-European roots.]
autochthon [ɔːˈtɒkθən -θɒn]
n pl -thons, -thones [-θəˌniːz]
1. (Social Science / Anthropology & Ethnology) (often plural) one of the earliest known inhabitants of any country; aboriginal
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) an animal or plant that is native to a particular region
[from Greek autokhthōn from the earth itself, from auto- + khthōn the earth]
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Noun1.autochthon - the earliest known inhabitants of a region
primitive, primitive person - a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
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Traveling to remote resorts where the poverty of autochthons underscores tourists' self-indulgent affluence, his nomadic vacationers seek out landscapes of desolation that set off the oases of beauty and luxury where they couple in groups of three or four.
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Ironically, therefore, the logic of place-based art curation and collection starts to mimic the logic of states under pressure of globalization: Citizens and artists are increasingly defined not as rights-bearing subjects of a nation, who may have come from elsewhere, but as ethnographic autochthons.
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As a result of these three waves of immigration, the population has been divided into two groups: autochthons or populations previously settled (a group comprising those settled before the 15th century) and people coming from elsewhere (a group composed of populations settled from the 15th century onwards).
The visual arts at the biennial Burkinabe National Cultural Week by Ky, Jean Celestin / Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
 
 
 
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