Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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El laberinto de la indigenidad: Cómo se determina quién es indígena maya ch’orti’ en Guatemala, Honduras y El Salvador
(Universidad de Costa Rica, 2012)Determining who is indigenous does not seem a problem, but when one goes to the Ch’orti’ Maya region of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, one soon realizes that nothing can be taken for granted. If one begins with ... -
Questions of Indigeneity and the (Re)-Emergent Ch'orti' Maya of Honduras
(American Anthropological Association, 2010)Entre el espacio de unos an˜os, los Ch’orti’de Honduras salieron de una identidad de´bil y vergonzosa a tener unmovimiento e´tnico con miles demiembros y tan fuerte que apresuro´ el gobierno nacional. La volatilidad de tal ... -
The Violence after 'La Violencia' in the Ch'orti' Region of Eastern Guatemala
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Reproductive strategies and natural history of the arboreal Neotropical vesper mouse, Nyctomys sumichrasti
(Mammalia, 2013-10)The vesper mouse, Nyctomys sumichrasti (Rodentia: Cricetidae), a poorly known, arboreal, nocturnal, rodent found in Central America, has been considered rare, and limited information is available about its biology, especially ... -
Casualties of Heritage Distancing: Children, Ch’orti’ Indigeneity, and the Copán Archaeoscape
(University of Chicago Press, 2012) -
An Expression of Cultural Change: Invisible Converts to Protestantism Among Highland Guatemala Mayas
(University of Pittsburgh, Department of Anthropology, 1991) -
English-Haitian Dictionary
([Lawrence, Kan.] : Institute of Haitian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010) -
Recovering Imperial Space in Juan Bautista Muñoz's Historia del Nuevo-Mundo (1793)
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007) -
De Fray Servando Teresa de Mier a Juan Bautista Muñozla disputa guadalupana en vísperas de la independencia.
(University of Pittsburgh, 2008) -
Choosing Between Centers of Action: Instrument Buoys, El Niño, and Scientific Internationalism in the Pacific, 1957-1982
(Science History Publications, 2004) -
"the most valuable birds in the world": International Conservation Science and the Revival of Peru's Guano Industry, 1909-1965
(Oxford University Press, 2005) -
The Last First Contact: An Eco-Cultural Interpretation
(Oxford University Press, 2007) -
“¿De qué color es el oro?: Race, Environment, and the History of Cuban National Music
(The University of Texas Press, 2005)This article examines the history of an important cultural practice: history writing. It focuses on ideologies of national unity developed by four influential Cuban intellectuals: Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes, Emilio Grenet, ... -
Group dynamics, behavior, and current and historical abundance of peccaries in Costa Rica’s Caribbean lowlands
(Journal of Mammalogy, 2013-08-14)The abundances and habitat preferences of peccaries in Neotropical forests are important to understand because these keystone species influence many aspects of the ecosystem. In the Caribbean lowlands of Costa Rica, we ... -
Bergen South: The Americanization of the Meteorology Profession in Latin America during World War II
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The Struggle over Airways in the Americas, 1919-1945
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Environmental Therapy for Soil and Social Erosion: Landscape Architecture and Depression-Era Highway Construction in Texas
(Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection, 2001) -
Intellectual Property and Public Health – A White Paper
(2013)On October 26, 2012, the University of Akron School of Law’s Center for Intellectual Property and Technology hosted its Sixth Annual IP Scholars Forum. In attendance were thirteen legal scholars with expertise and an ... -
Patent Expertise and the Regress of Useful Arts
(Southern Illinois University School of Law, 2009)Employing a multi-user interactive simulation of patent and non-patent (commons and open source) systems (the "Patent Game"), this study compares empirical data on rates of innovation, productivity, and social utility ... -
Intellectual Property as the Third Dimension of GMO Regulation
(University of Kansas School of Law, 2007)In the past, opposition to GMOs and GM crops has tended to focus on alleged dangers to human health and environmental safety. The United States, Canada, and Europe have all established regulatory frameworks whose stated ...