Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies: Recent submissions
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Voces para intentar escribir otra historia: Niños, Cine y Conflicto Armado Colombiano
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)This work focuses on how art, especially cinema, has portrayed the Colombian internal conflict. It is important to notice which stories were chosen to be depicted, and how certain situations, such as the creation of new ... -
The Peoples and Languages of Roatán
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2020-10-07)The Peoples and Languages of Roatán is a compilation of writings about the diverse peoples and languages in Roatán, including the Miskitu, Garifuna, Bay Island English-speaking Kriols, and Spanish-speaking Ladinos (mestizos). ... -
The Connection of Power, People, and Place: Evaluating Environmental Equity Content in the 100 Resilient Cities Strategies of Latin America
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)This study explores the frequency and depth of equity content within nine 100 Resilient Cities (100 RC) Latin American resilience plans. The research contributes to previous academic discussions by showing how often and ... -
Universalism and Targeting the Poor: A Dual Approach to Fight Poverty in Brazil (1988-2001)
(University of Kansas, 2018-12-31)While much of the analyses on cash-transfer programs have focused on the governments of former Brazilian presidents Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva, this study shifts the focus to the regional ... -
A Woman's Place: The Cuban Revolution and Gender Inequality in the Home
(University of Kansas, 2003-05-31)This thesis is an empirical study of changes in Cuban women's public and private lives from the 1959 Revolution to 1990. It describes the colonial gender ideology that has influenced present-day male and female relations, ... -
"Hauks, Chip, Grate, and Squeeze": Recipes of the Honduran Bay Islands
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2018-07)"Hauks, Chip, Grate and Squeeze" is an ethnographic cookbook based on field research Laura Herlihy completed in the late 1990s in the Honduran Bay Islands. Herlihy worked as part of the Honduras Subcomponent of Bi-Lingual ... -
Kichwa-English-Spanish Dictionary
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Yamni Balram (Welcome!): A Miskitu Grammar and Workbook
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2017-12-21)Yamni Balram/Welcome! is an indigenous Miskitu language grammar and workbook, designed to assist English-speakers learning to speak Miskitu in the field. The book developed over years of teaching Miskitu during the KU ... -
Green Man/Blue Woman: A Miskitu operetta set in the Nicaraguan rainforest
(University of Kansas, Libraries, 2017-12)Plot: A Miskitu Indian chief conspires with a shaman to cast a spell on an anthropologist, steal her away from a political rival and transform her into the First Lady of the Nicaraguan rain forest. The story involves ... -
Measuring Community Programs and Policies in the Healthy Communities Study
(Elsevier Masson, 2016-10-01)Childhood obesity is a challenging public health issue facing communities throughout the U.S. Local efforts are believed to be essential to assuring environments that support physical activity and healthy food/beverage ... -
Data sets: Typhoon frequency and intensity across the western North Pacific Ocean, 1951–2014
(2017-01-01)Disturbance has been a repeated theme in ecology in recent decades, yet incorporating its frequency and pattern at broad spatial scales into ecological analyses has been difficult—rather, most environmental data sets used ... -
R Code for: Typhoon frequency and intensity across the western North Pacific Ocean, 1951–2014
(2017-01-05)Disturbance has been a repeated theme in ecology, yet incorporating its frequency and pattern at broad spatial scales into ecological analyses has been difficult—rather, most environmental data sets used in broad-scale ... -
Avian evolution and speciation in the Southeast Asian tropics
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Lope enamorado: Patrimonio cultural y cine postnacional
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015-12)Este estudio ofrece un análisis contrastivo de dos casos de explotación de patrimonio cultural de la alta modernidad en el cine contemporáneo: Shakespeare in Love (1998) y Lope (2010). Los patrimonios culturales encarnados ... -
Decolonizing Psychological Science: Introdocution to the Special Thematic Section
(PsychOpen, 2015-08-21)Despite unprecedented access to information and diffusion of knowledge across the globe, the bulk of work in mainstream psychological science still reflects and promotes the interests of a privileged minority of people in ... -
DATA SETS: Occurrence data for Phylloscopus trochiloides ring species (full data set prior to reduction)
(2016-11-06)Full set of occurrence data derived from GBIF and Xeno-Canto searches. Note that these data are 'as is', and represent the version of the data set that has not yet been subjected to data cleaning and reduction steps. -
DATA SETS: Occurrence data for Phylloscopus trochiloides ring species
(2016-11-04)Data set comprising 41 occurrences used for model calibration in a study of the distributional history of the Phylloscopus trochiloides complex in Asia. -
DATA SETS: Automated identification of insect vectors of Chagas disease in Brazil and Mexico: The Virtual Vector Lab
(2016-09-22)Data documenting morphometric features of Brazilian and Mexican Triatominae, to accompany a manuscript presently submitted to PeerJ for consideration for publication. -
Operación Bolívar y la conspiración en la hiperabundancia de la información
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Liminal Legality: Salvadoran and Guatemalan Immigrants’ Lives in the United States
(University of Chicago Press, 2006-01)This article examines the effects of an uncertain legal status on the lives of immigrants, situating their experiences within frameworks of citizenship/belonging and segmented assimilation, and using Victor Turner's concept ...