Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Autran Dourado: A arte de tramar o romance
(University of North Carolina, 1979) -
Temporal Organization of Brazilian Portuguese Vowels in Continuous Speech: An Acoustical Study
(The University of Texas at Austin, 1987-08) -
Ecological niche structure determines rangewide abundance patterns of species
(2012-09-03)Spatial abundance patterns across species’ ranges have seen intense attention in macroecology and biogeography. One key hypothesis has been that abundance declines with geographic distance from the range center (‘abundant-center ... -
Niche Modeling: Model Evaluation
(2012-08-29)Ecological niche modeling has become a very popular tool in ecological and biogeographic studies across broad extents. The tool is used in hundreds of publications each year now, but some fundamental aspects of the approach ... -
Karyotypic variation in pocket gophers (Geomyidae: Geomys) from a narrow contact zone in Nebraska.
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A review and reappraisal of the night monkey, Aotus lemurinus (Primates: Cebidae), in Costa Rica.
(Revista de Biología Tropical, 1988-11)Los monos nocturnos del género Aotus habitan actualmente las tierras bajas de Suramérica, aunque en épocas pasadas su distribución se prolongaba hasta Isla Bastimentos, Provincia de Boca del Tore, en Panamá. EI único ... -
A newly recognized clade of trans-Andean Oryzomyini (Rodentia: Cricetidae), with description of a new genus.
(Journal of Mammalogy, 2012-06)We expand upon recent studies on relationships within the Oryzomyini, in particular, those involving taxa currently assigned to the genus Sigmodontomys. In recent years, Sigmodontomys has been treated as including 2 ... -
Bilingual Humor, Verbal Hygiene, and the Gendered Contradictions of Cultural Citizenship in Early Mexican American Comedy
(American Anthropological Association, 2003)This article examines the paradoxes of linguistic purism in a series of sound recordings of comic dialogues made by Mexican immigrant comedians in San Antonio, Texas, during the Depression. The dialogues present characters ... -
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)