MACLAS Latin American Essays back issues from March 2001:
Managing editor's preface.
Mar 01, 2001; ... The fifteenth volume in the series of MACLAS: Latin American Essays presents a selection of fifteen papers given at the Twenty-second Annual Conference of the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies held at American and Howard Universities in Washington D.C. on March 30-31, 2001 ....
Social movements and hybrid cultural formations: Tepoztlan's "no al golf".
Mar 01, 2001; ... What does it mean when a "traditional" Mexican campesino declares himself to be an "environmentalist?" How do we explain a women's Bible study group taking up the mantle of defenders of "human rights?" How do these new titles and identifications reflect changing self-perception and local ...
Creating citizens: the birth and growth of the Cuban internal pro-democracy movement.
Mar 01, 2001; ... In November 1999 Cuba hosted the 10th Ibero-American Summit, in which approximately 20 Latin American Presidents and Heads of State joined together to discuss the present and future of Ibero-American relations. At the time, the meeting appeared as an ideal opportunity to improve the ...
Words, sounds, and power in Jamaican Rastafari.
Mar 01, 2001; ... Rastafari is a religious movement that grew out of Jamaica during the 1930s. The Rastafarian movement "has been described [by social scientists] as a `political cult,' a `messianic movement,' a `politico-religious cult' among other labels. But as the researchers move into the details of ...
Yoruban religious survival in Brazilian Candomble.
Mar 01, 2001; ... Candomble is a possession religion widely practiced in Brazil today. This Afro-Brazilian religion is syncretic, a mingling of the pantheon, practices, and beliefs brought to the New World by Yoruban slaves and freedmen with the Catholicism of the dominant European culture. Candomble is one ...
Healing the rupture: a Jungian perspective in African religion/mythology.
Mar 01, 2001; ... In a letter dated March 25, 1998 from the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue, Vatican City, to the Presidents of the Episcopal Conferences of Africa and of Madagascar, the pastoral began by saying that, "[t]he secretariat for Non-Christians has become more and more convinced ...
Latin America's 1980's and Asia's 1990's debt crisis: a comparison.
Mar 01, 2001; ... I Latin America's Foreign Debt crisis of the 1980s has had profound repercussions that resulted in fundamental changes in the process of Economic Development and the economic structure of several Latin American countries. Asia's Foreign Debt crisis of the 1990s has resulted in ...
Nuclear politics in Cold War Argentina.
Mar 01, 2001; ... The history of the Argentine nuclear sector is wonderfully contradictory--"wonderfully" because despite its problems and failures, it emerged as Argentina's most important area of technological advancement in the Cold War period. Led through much of its history by senior admiralty ...
Nacion, colonialismo y modernidad en la declaracion de independencia del Peru (1821).
Mar 01, 2001; ... Al repasar el proceso de autonomizacion de cabildos y formacion de Juntas que, en el mundo hispano y en torno a 1810, siguio a la ocupacion francesa de la peninsula iberica de 1808, sabemos que la Audiencia de Lima no formo parte de dicho proceso. Carlos Neuhaus Rizo Patron se explica la ...
Hija de las Americas: Latin American themes in A Daughter's Geography and Liliane.(Critical Essay)
Mar 01, 2001; ... Separated by more than a decade, the focus of A Daughter's Geography (1983) and Liliane: Resurrection of the Daughter (1994), both by Notozake Shange, couldn't be more different, despite the commonality of the nature of the parent-child relationship explored in them. The Latin American ...
Rescatando las poetas hondurenas: locura y lucidez en Juana Pavon, Sara Salazar Melendez, Aida Ondina Sabonge Gutierrez y Maria Eugenia Ramos.(text in Spanish)
Mar 01, 2001; ... Me limito a reflexionar sobre la fuerza del sentido de la palabra poetica siempre que esta llega a expresarseme. (Gadamer, 70) I. INTRODUCCION En ninguna otra literatura es tan obvio el olvido, pernicioso o involuntario, de las mujeres poetas como en la literatura ...
From Guayaquil to Quito: three nineteenth-century travel narratives.(Critical Essay)
Mar 01, 2001; ... Countless nineteenth-century international travelers climbed the hazardous Inca trail that led from the coastal city of Guayaquil up into the Andean highlands and then on to Ecuador's capital city of Quito. Scientific exploration, mountain climbing, cultural and economic expansion, ...
Concepto y metafora en un poema de Jose Emilio Pacheco.(Text in Spannish)(Critical Essay)
Mar 01, 2001; ... I En 1976, en un articulo titulado "Jose Emilio Pacheco: la poesia como Ready-Made" (1), Jose Miguel Oviedo senalo varios aspectos que empezaban a surgir o a marcarse a partir del poemario No me preguntes como pasa el tiempo (Mexico: Era, 1969). Dichos aspectos: el prosaismo, ...
Literary excursion into the discomfort zone: a study of the adaptation from textual to visual representation in Gambaro's El desatino.(Critical Essay)
Mar 01, 2001; ... Introduction Griselda Gambaro's fame as a brilliant Argentine dramatist overshadows her work as a skilled novelist. It is not well known that a portion of her acclaimed works are adaptations for the stage from narratives written earlier. For example, Gambaro's short story, El ...
Las dos Venecias: de Puerto Rico a Italia.
Mar 01, 2001; ... <Pre>Gotica caverna voluptuosa, en la noche emite vagidos guturales. Ataudluctuoso flotando a la deriva al ritmo de lugubres membranas. Rosario Ferre, "Venecia goyesca", Las dos Venecias. [T]he basilica-crypt monolith forms two hemispheres with an intermediary...
Teaching Latin American studies with Blackboard CourseInfo Web software.
Mar 01, 2001; ... I. Introduction This article describes how a Web-based course authoring software package (Blackboard CourseInfo) was used in the teaching of a survey course in Latin American studies. The changing nature of the educational technology environment is first described in ...
Charles D. Ameringer. The Cuban Democratic Experience: the Autentico Years, 1944-1952.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2001; ... Gainesville: U P of Florida, 2000. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-8130-1755-6 (alk. Paper). In this book, winner of the 2001 MACLAS Whitaker Prize, Charles D. Ameringer brings a full scholarly apparatus to bear on an important eight-year period of Cuban history. His well-written, analytical ...
MACLAS presidents, 1979/1980 to 1999/2002.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2001 ... <Pre> MACLAS PRESIDENTS, 1979/1980 TO 1999/2002 1979-1980Charles Ameringer (acting) Penn State University 1980-1981Charles AmeringerPenn State University 1981-1982Ivo DominguezUniversity of Delaware 1982-1983G. Pope Atkins ...
MACLAS secretary-treasurers: 1979-2002.(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2001 ... <Pre> MACLAS SECRETARY-TREASURERS: 1979-2002 1980-1983 Michael BurkeVillanova University 1985-1987 Winthrop R. Wright University of Maryland 1988-1994 Alvin Cohen Lehigh University 1994 Danusia Meson Sosnowski ...