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Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies: Recent submissions
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Introduction
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The Psychology of Engagement with Indigenous Identities: A Cultural Perspective
(American Psychological Association, 2006)A questionnaire study among 124 students at Haskell Indian Nations University investigated the hypothesis that engagement with Indigenous identity—assessed along 3 dimensions including degree (identification scale), content ... -
Fantasía and Disobedient Daughters Undistressing Genres and Reinventing Traditions in the Mexican American Carpa
(American Folklore Society, 1999)During the 1930s and 1940s, female performers in Mexican American tent shows in San Antonio modified the costumes associated with Mexican "folkloric" dances, incorporating elements derived from vaudeville, to form a hybrid ... -
A new species of Felicola (Phthiraptera: Trichodectidae) from a Costa Rican jaguar, Panthera onca (Carnivora: Felidae)
(Biological Society of Washington, 1994-04)A new species of chewing louse, Felicola (Lorisicola) oncae (Phthiraptera: Trichodectidae), is described and illustrated from a jaguar, Panthera onca (Carnivora: Felidae), taken in Costa Rica. Although this louse is based ... -
Revision of the extant taxa of the genus Notiosorex (Mammalia: Insectivora: Soricidae)
(Biological Society of Washington, 2000-04)We evaluated the taxonomic status of three specimens of gray shrews, Notiosorex (Insectivora: Soricidae), collected in isolated mountain valleys in Tamaulipas, Mexico, with specimens referable to the Recent taxa N. crawfordi ... -
Recovering La Carpa: The Dialogue of History and Memory in José Manuel Galván's 'Las Tandas de San Cuilmas - Los Carperos"
(The University of Texas at Austin, 1999)In 1989, playwright José Manuel Galván-Leguízamo, a veteran of the theatrical arm of the Mexico City student movement, created a play based on his own oral history interviews with peformers from San Antonio who had been ... -
Singing to the Machine: Rodolfo Garcia's Autobiographical Report
(University of Texas, Department of Linguistics, Austin, Texas, 1998)My paper examines an autobiographical monologue which Rodolfo García, an elderly Mexican American vaudevillian from San Antonio, Texas, recorded on his home tape recorder. In the monologue, Mr. García moved from a temporally ... -
Sol, Sombra, y Media Luz: History, Parody, and Identity Formation in the Mexican American Carpa
(International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), 2000)This paper analyzes a parody of the tango "A media luz" that was performed by Rodolfo García, a Mexican American comedian who worked in his family's tent show, the Carpa García, in the early 1940s. I argue that by juxtaposing ... -
Leonard Bernstein: Eclecticism and Vernacular Elements in Chichester Psalms
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Datasets: Phylogenetic assessment of filoviruses: how many lineages of Marburg virus?
(2012-06-08)Filoviruses have to date been considered as consisting of one diverse genus (Ebola viruses) and one undifferentiated genus (Marburg virus). We reconsider this idea by means of detailed phylogenetic analyses of sequence ... -
Afterword C: Fruits of their labors.
(Field Museum of Natural History, 1987) -
Behavior as mind-in-context: A cultural psychology analysis of "paranoid" suspicion
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Siphonaptera of Minnesota
(Marginal Media Press, Fredonia, New York., 1980) -
Soil degradation, global warming and climate impacts
(Inter Research, 2001)A water balance model is used to assess the relative impacts of global warming and soil degradation scenarios on water resources in the future. Results indicate that overall global warming will have a more widespread and ... -
Estimated impacts of soil degradation on the African water balance and climate
(Inter Research, 1998)This study uses a well-established water balance methodology, the Thornthwaite-Mather approach, to evaluate the effects of soil water holding capacity assumptions on estimates of African evapotranspiration rates, moisture ... -
The taxonomy of Geomydoecus (Mallophaga: Trichodectidae) from the Geomys bursarius complex (Rodentia: Geomyidae)
(Journal of Medical Entomology, 1980-03)A revision was undertaken of the members of the genus Geomydoecus parasitizing plains pocket gophers of the Geomys bursarius complex. Prior to this revision, 5 specific and subspecific taxa of lice were recognized from ... -
Feminism and Maria de Zayas's Exemplary Comedy, La Traicion en la Armistad
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008) -
Congress Has a Role to Play in Making Research Public
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Scrotal melanins in bats (Chiroptera): description, distribution, and function
(Journal of Zoology (London), 1988)Several species of bats contain pigment granules within the scrotal skin, tunica vaginalis or tunica albuginea surrounding the testis and/or epididymis. Seventy-two species of bats, representing 49 genera were examined ...