Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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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). ... -
"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 ... -
Legal Violence: Immigration Law and the Lives of Central American Immigrants
(University of Chicago Press, 2012-03)This article analyzes how Central American immigrants in tenuous legal statuses experience current immigration laws. Based on ethnographic observations and over 200 interviews conducted between 1998 and 2009 with immigrants ... -
Assumption- versus data-based approaches to summarizing species’ ranges
(Wiley, 2016-08-04)Species’ geographic distributions are mapped using various approaches for use in conservation decision-making. Some such mapping efforts have relied on modifications of coarse-resolution extent-of-occurrence maps to downscale ... -
East L.A., Seoul, and Military Mysteries in Martin Limón’s Slicky Boys and The Wandering Ghost
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DATASETS FOR: Distributional Potential of the Critically Endangered Forest Owlet in Central India
(2016-05-11)Maps developed based on known occurrences of Forest Owlet. Maps are provided to facilitate searches for additional populations.