Central American Theses and Dissertations
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The University of Kansas has long historical connections with Central America and the many Central Americans who have earned graduate degrees at KU. Professor Emeritus Charles Stansifer of the History department and the staff of the Scholarly Communications program at the KU Libraries' Center for Digital Scholarship worked together to obtain permission from these former students to digitize their theses and dissertations so that they could be made freely available through KU's institutional repository, KU ScholarWorks. This Central American Theses and Dissertations collection is the culmination of those efforts.
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Não é apenas sobre nós: Food as a Mechanism to Address Social and Environmental Injustices in Mato Grosso, Brazil
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)The Landless Workers Movement (MST) is one of the most important social movements in the world for the implementation of agrarian land reform. Their fight for access to land has been based on the premise that land should ... -
The Effect of Religion on Latin American Migration to the United States
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)This paper explores the effects of religion on Latin American migration to the United States. It updates the existing literature on the effect of religion on the six stages of migration (decision, preparation, journey, ... -
Rewriting Columbus in the New Latin American Historical Novel
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)This work intends to analyze the historical and social relevance of the New Latin American Historical Novel (NLHN) based on the parallel evolution of this literary genre and the new postmodern trends in history. This work ... -
DIGGING THE ROOTS or Resistance and identity politics of the mouvman rasin in Haiti
(University of Kansas, Latin American Studies, 2002-01-01)The ideological, cultural, and physical means which brought François Duvalier to power in 1957 created a process whereby the state idea became the metonym for all Haitian identity. In what is now called the Roots movement, ... -
Tense and Aspect in Limon Creole: A Sociolinguistic View Towards a Creole Continuum
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Twentieth Century Nicaraguan Protest Poetry: The Struggle for Cultural Hegemony
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Kaqchikel and Spanish Language Contact: The Case of Bilingual Mayan Children
(University of Kansas, 2004-05)This study examined the lexical and morphosyntactic knowledge of Kaqchikel Maya children in the Kaqchikel and Spanish languages. Eight bilingual children, who acquired Kaqchikel at home and Spanish at school participated ... -
The Church in Poverty: Bishops, Bourbons, and Tithes in Spanish Honduras, 1700-1821
(University of Kansas, 1981-12)The opening phrase of the title succinctly states the economic situation of the Church in eighteenth century Honduras. This study comprises an analysis of episcopal leadership, the relationship between royal authorities ... -
Biogeographical and Evolutionary Relationships Among Central American Small-Eared Shrews of the Genus Cryptotis (Mammalia: Insectivora: Soricidae)
(University of Kansas, 1992-09-09)Small-eared shrews of the genus Cryptotis have a distribution that extends from southernmost Ontario and across much of the eastern half of the United States south to the northern Andean highlands. The genus attains ... -
Evolution of a Humid Tropical Landscape in Northcentral Costa Rica as Deduced from Geomorphic and Pedogenic Evidence
(University of Kansas, 1979)Progressive landscape changes in humid tropical provinces of southern San Carlos Canton in northcentral Costa Rica can be attributed to tectonic, volcanic, mass-wasting, and fluvial events. Spatial distribution of ... -
Natural History, Learning, And Social Behavior in Solitary Sweat Bees (Hymenoptera, Halictidae)
(University of Kansas, 1991-04-02)The natural history of two Costa Rican species of sweat bees was studied to better understand the advantages and disadvantages associated with group-living and cooperative behavior in bees. One of the bees was a new species, ... -
La Novela Costarricense
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Hunting, Habitat, and Indigenous Settlement Patterns: A Geographic Analysis of Buglé Wildlife Use in Western Panama
(University of Kansas, 2003-04-30)This dissertation analyzes indigenous wildlife use from a geographic perspective, focusing on the relationships between hunting, habitat, and settlement patterns. Fieldwork took place among five neighboring communities ... -
Behavioral and Physiological Ecology and Community Structure of Tropical Cockroaches (Dictyoptera: Blattaria)
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A Phylogenetic Analysis of the Bee Tribe Epeolini, with a Review of the Genus Triepeolus
(University of Kansas, 2006)A generic-level cladistic analysis of the cleptoparasitic bee tribe Epeolini (Apinae: Nomadinae) is presented. One hundred and two characters of adult external morphology are identified and coded for 32 species representing ... -
The Coffeeness of Costa Rica
(University of Kansas, 2005)Costa Rica is a place that has come to be associated with coffee. The coffeeness of Costa Rica is possible due to a unique combination of physical and social elements, and elements of culture and meaning that have been ... -
Using the Web to Practice and Learn Grammar: ESL Student Perspectives
(University of Kansas, 2000-03-29)The purpose of this study was to describe and explain the perspectives of ESL college students on using the Internet resources found in the Web site NetGrammar for grammar practice. In order to understand the participant ... -
Systematics of the Bufo Valliceps Group (Anura: Bufonidae) of Middle America
(University of Kansas, 1997-05-06)A phylogenetic analysis of morphological characters revealed that the species content of the Bufo valliceps group is limited to eight species (two of them new) occurring between the southern United States and Costa Rica. ... -
Ecological Gradients in Diversity and Abundance: A Search for Patterns and Processes in Small Mammal Communities
(University of Kansas, 2003)One of the most fundamental questions in ecology is: what are the patterns of diversity and the mechanisms that produce them? Many biological theories have been proposed to explain latitudinal and elevational diversity ... -
Chemical Models for Aqueous Biodynamical Processes
(University of Kansas, 1975-05)The proton inventory method was applied to the study of three processes: the viscous flow of water, the neutral hydrolysis of esters, and the exchange reaction between aqueous sodium ion and the carboxylic exchanger Amberlite ...
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