Latin American & Caribbean Area Studies: BU Dissertations & Theses
Recent Dissertations and Theses on Latin America, the Caribbean, & Latinos
Acuto, Felix Alejandro."Landscapes of ideology and inequality : experiencing Inka domination." Diss. Binghamton University, 2004.
-----. " Landscapes of spectacle and dominance : Inka conquest of the north Calchaqui Valley." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 2002.
Aguirre Gaviria, Beatriz Eugenia. "Entre el desafío y la sumisión : dos revistas femeninas de Colombia y México en el siglo XIX." Diss. Binghamton University, 1995.
Aguirre Maturana, Ramón. "Magmatic iron ore breccias in the Chilean coastal cordillera La Falda and Broce Sur mines, Pleito-Melón district, III región, Chile." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 2001.Amadi, Emmanuel Ndubisi. "State policies and economic growth in Taiwan and Brazil, 1946-1988 : an analysis of linkages." Diss. Binghamton University, 1992.
Baerga, María del Carmen. "Exclusion and resistance : household, gender, and work in the needlework industry in Puerto Rico, 1914-1940." Diss. Binghamton University, 1996.
Baronov, David. "The process of working-class formation : the abolition of slavery in 19th-century Brazil in world-historical perspective." Diss. Binghamton University, 1994.
Barrett, Craig F. "Association of native mimosoid legumes with [beta]-rhizobia in Central America." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 2004.
Bedoya Garland, Eduardo."Debt bondage in Peru : the Upper Huallaga case." Diss. Binghamton University, 1993.
Bencic, Catherine M. "Back to the grind : understanding lithic technology at Iwawi, Bolivia." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 1999.Bernabe, Rafael. "Prehistory of the Partido Popular Democratio : Munoz Marin, the Partido Liberal and the crisis of sugar in Puerto Rico, 1930-35." Diss. Binghamton University, 1989.
Besom, John Thomas. "Mummies, mountains, and immolations : strategies for unifying the Inka Empire's southern quarters." Diss. Binghamton University, 2000.-----. "The mummy of the mountain." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 1987. Blacker, Juan Carlos. "Growing up Huari : an analysis of architectural style, technique, and history at the Middle Horizon site of Conchopata, Ayacucho, Peru." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 2001.
Bobst, Andrew Lee. "A 106 KA paleoclimate record from the Salar de Atacama, northern Chile." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 1999.
Botts, Cheryl June Brigid. "Yucatec Maya life as ritual : an outsider visits two villages." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 1991.
Bray, Tamara Lynn. "The effects of Inca imperialism on the northern frontier." Diss. Binghamton University, 1990.
Brewster-Wray, Christine Carolyn. "Moraduchayuq : an administrative compound at the site of Huari, Peru." Diss. Binghamton University, 1990.
Brewster-Wray, Michael Kent. "Kinship and labor in the structure of the Inca Empire." Diss. Binghamton University, 1988.
Brussi, Antonio José Escobar. "From Pequi to Soybean : agricultural expansion and the incorporation of central Brazil." Diss. Binghamton University, 1998.
Burkholder, Joellen. "Tiwanaku and the anatomy of time : a new ceramic chronology from the Iwawi site, Department of La Paz, Bolivia." Diss. Binghamton University, 1997.
Calaway, Michael John. "Environmental factors and prehistoric societal collapse : exploring the agro-ecological collapse of the Tiwanaku civilization and environmental time-scales." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 2001.
Canterbury, Dennis Compton. " Politics and social forces in Guyanese working class development." Diss. Binghamton University, 2000.
Castillo Pérez, Nydia María. "Educación superior, economía, política e ideología Nicaragua, 1960-97." Diss. Binghamton University, 1998.
Christian, Cindy M. "The effects of U.S. hegemonic decline on economic development and political conflict in Latin America." Diss. Binghamton University, 1993.
Christopulos, Diana K. " American radicals and the Mexican revolution, 1900-1925." Diss. Binghamton University, 1980.
Clarkin, Patrick Francis. " The fetal origins hypothesis and the Hmong diaspora : effects of warfare, early malnutrition, and later modernization on adult health." Diss. Binghamton University, 2004.
Cook, Anita Gwynn. "Art and time in the evolution of Andean state expansionism." Diss. Binghamton University, 1985.
-----. "The iconography of empire : symbolic communication in seventh century Peru." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 1979.
Conley, Bridget K. "In the name of humanity : the ethics and politics of humanitarian intervention in Bosnia and Haiti." Diss. Binghamton University, 2001.
Cordero, Joseph Elizer. "Mistaken identity : Puerto Rican acculturation within the urban underclass." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 1993.Crespo, Elizabeth. "Changing conceptions of femininity among Puerto Rican women." Diss. Binghamton University, 1991.
Crichlow, Michaeline Adelle. "Agricultural policy and the development of a small holding stratum in Jamaica 1930-1980." Diss. Binghamton University, 1988.
Curran, Donald Walter. "Geology of the Siguatepeque quadrangle, Honduras, Central America." Diss. Binghamton University, 1980.
Davis, Harold Neal. "The genesis of present-day Amazonian indigenous organizations as exemplified by the Shuar." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 1996.
DeWitt, R. Peter. "Policy directions in international lending : the case of the Inter-American Development Bank and Costa Rica." Diss. Binghamton University, 1976.
Diaz, Julio Cesar. "Being in the Pampas." Diss. Binghamton University, 2002.
Diaz, Rose-Liliana. "The cooptation of black samba : the integration of samba schools, Afro-Brazilians and bicheiros in Rio de Janeiro." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 1993.
Doolan, Barry Lee. "The structure and metamorphism of the Santa Marta area, Colombia, South America." Diss. Binghamton University, 1970.
Dufour, Darna Lee. "Household variation in energy flow in a population of tropical forest horticulturalists." Diss. Binghamton University, 1981.
Estrada, Juan José. "Paleomagnetism and accretion events in the Northern Andes." Diss. Binghamton University, 1995.
Fernandez, Laura. "Poverty and imperialism." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 1986.
Fitzgerald, Frank T. "Politics and social structure in revolutionary Cuba : from the demise of the old middle class to the rise of the new professionals." Diss. Binghamton University, 1985.
Foley, Kenan. "Garifuna music culture : an introduction to Garifuna music practice with emphasis on Abaimahani and Arumahani songs." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 1994.
Freire-Medeiros, Bianca. "The traveling city : representations of Rio in U.S. films, travel accounts and scholarly writing (1930s-1990s)." Diss. Binghamton University, 2002.
Gadsby, Meredith Miranda. "Little salt won't kill you : Caribbean women writers, migration, and the politics of survival." Diss. Binghamton University, 2000.
Gaitan Zavala, Bridget. "Building Trincheras : an analysis of architectural features at Cerro de Trincheras." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 1998.
Galligano, Keith C. "An examination of migration patterns, location and social status of selected Latino ethnic groups in New York City." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 2005.
Gerlus, Jean-Claude. "The political economy of Haitian migration : a cross-frontier study of the circulation of people, capital, and commodity flows." Diss. Binghamton University, 1992.
Giusti-Cordero, Juan A. "Labor, ecology and history in a Caribbean sugar plantation region : Piñones (Loíza), Puerto Rico, 1770-1950." Diss. Binghamton University, 1994.
Graham, Diane Shafer. "Planting, planning and design : a comparative study of English colonial cities founded in India, North America, and the Caribbean 1660-1710." Diss. Binghamton University, 2001.
Greathouse, Laura Dawn. "The Garifuna of Belize redefining their image of "self" : a sociolinguistic analysis of language choice in a developing nation." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 1996.
Grieshop, James Ivo. "Urbanization and integration : the barriadas of Lima." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 1968.
Groleau, Amy B. "House-keeping and house-leaving : a case study of oversize ceramic offering and modes of abandonment from Middle Horizon, Peru." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 2005.
Harkins, Thomas Peter. "Peasant migration in historical context : the case of Cochabamba, Bolivia." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 1993.
Hein, Matthew Christopher. "Closed basin paleoclimate studies from the Salar de Atacama, Chile : a >106kyr paleoclimate record." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 2000.
Hékinian, R. "Petrological and geochemical study of spilites and associated dike rocks from the Virgin Island core (Caribbean Island arc)." Diss. Binghamton University, 1969.
Hernandez-Leon, Ruben. "Urban origin migration from Mexico to the United States : the case of the Monterrey metropolitan area." Diss. Binghamton University, 2000.
Hiles, Travis S."Relationship between respiratory viral infection, social organization, and altitude among populations from Peru and New Guinea." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 1999.
Jiménez-Muñoz, Gladys M. " 'A storm dressed in skirts:' ambivalence in the debate on women's suffrage in Puerto Rico, 1927-1929." Diss. Binghamton University, 1993.
Johnson, Kent Raymond. "Geology of the Gualán and southern Sierra de Las Minas quadrangles, Guatemala." Diss. Binghamton University, 1984.
Jolly, Wayne Travis. "Petrologic studies of the Robles Formation, south central Puerto Rico." Diss. Binghamton University, 1970.
Jurado, Michelle. "The reliability and validity of a Spanish version of the Social Skills Rating System-teacher form for a sample of children from Puerto Rico." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 2003
Ketteman, William Gregory. "New dates from the Huari Empire : chronometric dating of the prehistoric occupation of Conchopata, Ayacucho, Peru." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 2002.
Kim, Kyoung-Tae. " Boundary element modeling of earthquake site effects including the complete incident wavefield." Diss. Binghamton University, 2001.
Korzeniewicz, Roberto Patricio. "The labor movement in Argentina, 1887-1973." Diss. Binghamton University, 1988.
Knobloch, Patricia Jean. " A study of the Andean Huari ceramics from the Early Intermediate Period to the Middle Horizon Epoch 1." Diss. Binghamton University, 1983.
Kramer, Jonathan MacDonald. "127 ka paleotemperature record from fluid inclusions in halite, Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 2003.
Kudrle, Samuel M. "Childhood stress and life health : a case study from Tipu, Belize." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 1999.
Lacayo, Pablo Gilbert. "The coming of the African slave trade to Honduras : a translation of Tráfico de esclavos negros a Honduras by Rafael Leiva Vivas." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 1988.
Laó-Montes, Agustín. "Late colonial power : counterpointing Northern Ireland and Puerto Rico in the post-World War II modern/colonial world-system." Diss. Binghamton University, 2003.
LaTortue, Paul Rene. "The employment problem and the growth of higher education in Puerto Rico." Diss. Binghamton University, 1980.
Lawrence, David P. "Petrology and structural geology of the Sanarate-El Progreso area, Guatemala." Diss. Binghamton University, 1975.
Layera, Juan Ramon. "Contemporary Spanish American drama of denunciation and social protest : the case of Argentina and Chile." Diss. Binghamton University, 1977.
Leoni, Juan Bautista. "Ritual, place, and memory in the construction of community identi[t]y : a diachronic view from Ñawinpukyo (Ayacucho, Peru)." Diss. Binghamton University, 2004.
Long, Judith Ann. "Organización social de los hijos de refugiados en México, D.F. English Social organization of the children of refugees in Mexico City : a translation of La organización social de los hijos de refugiados en México, D.F. by Gloria Artís." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 1988.
Lowe, Susan Marie. "Conferencia internacional, salud para todos, 25 años de experiencia cubana, resúmenes. English
Summaries, International Conference on Health for All, 25 Years of Cuban Experience : a translation of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health & the World Health Organization Document in Spanish." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 1989.
MacQueen, Kathleen Marie. "Migration in Saba Island : an historical demographic analysis of a multigenerational process." Diss. Binghamton University, 1989.
Márquez Herrera, Antonio. "Situación y perspectivas de la agricultura de Zacatecas, México, bajo el neoliberalismo (1990-2000)." Diss. Binghamton University, 2002.
McCafferty, Geoffrey Gene. "Ethnic boundaries and ethnic identity : case studies from post-classic Mexico." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 1989.
-----. "The material culture of Postclassic Cholula, Puebla : contextual interpretations of the UA-1 domestic compounds." Diss. Binghamton University, 1992.
Melendez, Carlalynne Christina. "Culture, health and environment : a multidisciplinary evaluation of communities exposed to pesticides in the Constanza region, Dominican Republic." Diss. Binghamton University, 2002.
-----. "Identifying and designing ecological reserves in S.E. Puerto Rico, using a biogeographic and GIS approach." MA Thesis, 1996.
Meléndez, Walter. "Hegemonic powers and peripheral states : United States and Peru during Pax Americana." Diss. Binghamton University, 1997.
Melomo, Vincent H. "The protohistoric period in Sonora, Mexico : historical or archaeological questions?" MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 1994.
Miller, Alberto. " Economic prehistory at the Ancon Tank site : a test of demographic explanations of agricultural origins in the Ancon-Chillon region, Central Peruvian Coast." Diss. Binghamton University, 1986.
Minero, Charles John. "Sedimentary environments and diagenesis of the El Abra formation (Cretaceous), Mexico." Diss. Binghamton University, 1983.
Montalvo, Rene Joseph. "The transformation of narrative discourse in the modern Puerto Rican novel." Diss. Binghamton University, 1993.
Moreno, Rosanna. "The impact of transitions on workers' attitudes : a case study of a small company in South America." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 2001.
Morley, Morris H. "Toward a theory of imperial politics : United States policy and the processes of state formation, disintegration and consolidation in Cuba, 1898-1978." Diss. Binghamton University, 1980.
Moscoso, Francisco. "The development of tribal society in the Caribbean." Diss. Binghamton University, 1981.
Muller, Peter Dale. "Geology of the Los Amates quadrangle and vicinity, Guatemala, Central America." Diss. Binghamton University, 1979.
Navarrete, Rodrigo. "Latin American social archaeology : one goal, multiple views." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 1999.
Newcomb, Walter Edwin. "Geology, structure and metamorphism of the Chuacus Group, Rio Hondo Quadrangle and vicinity, Guatemala." Diss. Binghamton University, 1975.
O'Brien, Tyler G. "Cranial microvariation in prehistoric south central Andean populations : an assessment of morphology in the Cochabamba collection, Bolivia." Diss. Binghamton University, 2003.
O'Donovan, Maria. "Confronting archaeological enigmas : Cerro de Trincheras, Cerros de Trincheras and monumentality." Diss. Binghamton University, 1997.
Olinger, John Peter. " Dreyfus frères, Guano and Peruvian government finance, 1869-1880; : a chapter in economic imperialism. " Diss. Binghamton University, 1973.
Olmedo, Clara. "Labor-capital relations under neoliberal reforms : the role of the state in the regulation of informal-precarious labor : a case study in Chilecito, a town in the northwest of Argentina, 1991-2001." Diss. Binghamton University, 2003.
Ortiz Garcia, Javier. " Jorge Diaz and the absurdism in Latin America: a study of his plays with a translation of El cepillo de dientes." Diss. Binghamton University, 1994.
Pardo-Rojas, Mauricio. "Markets and Shamanism : endurance and transformation among Choco Indians in the western rainforest of Colombia." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 1992.
Pasquarello, Thomas E. "Human rights and U.S. bilateral aid decisions toward Africa and Latin America." Diss. Binghamton University, 1987.
Pearson, Thomas W. "Religious conversion, embodiment, and gender : recasting the study of Pentecostalism in Latin America." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 2003.
Perez-Crespo, Carlos A. "Agricultural cooperatives : perspectives from the Aymara and the Bolivian state." Diss. Binghamton University, 1986.
Peterson, David A. "Ancient commerce." Diss. Binghamton University, 1976.
Petras, Elizabeth McLean. "Black labor and white capital : the formation of Jamaica as a global labor reserve, 1830-1930." Diss. Binghamton University, 1981.
Phillips, Peter D. "The political economy of U.S.-Caribbean relations in the Twentieth Century : cycles of hegemony and rivalry in the world economy and changing patterns of peripheralization." Diss. Binghamton University, 1987.
Pohost, Keith Eric. "Ecotourism : proponent's claims and Costa Rican realities." MA Thesis. Binghamton University,1998.
Powers, Aylward T. "Representative mediation in the Puerto Rican community of a northeastern mainland city." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 1975.
Qian, Jinghui. "Phylogenetic analyses of Mesorhizobium and Bradyrhizobium strains associated with legumes in natural plant habitats." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 2002.
Ramcharran, Harridutt. "Trade-creation and trade-diversion in the Caribbean Free Trade Area : an empirical study." Diss. Binghamton University, 1978.
Rehberg, Eileen Robertson. "Cultural nationalism and cultural otherness in the presentation of Mexican art in Mexico and the United States." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 1993.
Richardson, Ronald Kent. "The signs of power : a study of English anti-slavery thought." Diss. Binghamton University, 1982.
Rideg, Peter. "Geology and structure of the Serra Do Mar in eastern Sao Paulo, Brazil." Diss. Binghamton University, 1974.
Rivera-Giusti, Ivette M. "Gender, labor, and working-class activitism in the Puerto Rican tobacco industry, 1898-1924." Diss. Binghamton University, 2004.
-----. "Women, politics and colonialism : the needleworkers strike of 1933, Puerto Rico." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 1998.
Rivera Guzmán, Pedro Juan. "Transfer payments and the retirement and precautionary motives for saving : an evaluation of the impact of United States transfers on personal saving in Puerto Rico." Diss. Binghamton University, 1983.
Rosa Gonzalez, Migdalia. "Living between two worlds : Mexican and Puerto Rican migrant farmworkers in New Jersey." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 2001.
Rosenfeld, Joshua Henry. "Geology of the Western Sierra de Santa Cruz, Guatemala, Central America : an Ophiolite sequence." Diss. Binghamton University, 1981.
Rubinstein, Robert A. "Cognitive development and the acquisition of semantic knowledge in northern Belize." Diss. Binghamton University, 1976.
Sánchez, José M. "Political integration among developing states : the Central American case." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 1968.
Santos Clynes, Gonzalo Francisco."The historical construction of Latino peoplehood in the United States, 1350-1990." Diss. Binghamton University, 1993.
Schreiber, Katharina Jeanne. "Planned architecture of middle horizon Peru : implications for social and political organizations." Diss. Binghamton University, 1978.
Schwartz, David Philip. "Geology of the Zacapa Quadrangle and vicinity, Guatemala, Central America." Diss. Binghamton University, 1976.
Siegel, Peter E. "Ideology, power, and social complexity in prehistoric Puerto Rico." Diss. Binghamton University, 1992.
Sierra, Gloria Maria. "Structural and sedimentary evolution of the Irra Basin, northern Colombian Andes." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 1994.
Slocum, Karla. "Managing markets and households : the case of women inter-island traders in St. Vincent." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 1991. >
Slusser, Mary Catherine. "Mayan spatial cognition : verbal and non-verbal models of space in a Yucatecan community." Binghamton University, 1982.
Stavenhagen-Helgren, Christina L. "Religious cultural change and continuity among the Kanjobal refugees of Guatemala." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 1991.
Steve, Richard E. "Investigating domestication in the Tafi Valley, northwest Argentina." Diss. Binghamton University, 1974.
Stone, Jane. "The socio-economic implications of lithic evidence from Huari, Peru." Diss. Binghamton University, 1983.
Stovel, Emily Mary. "Habitational analysis and cultural contact at Coyo Aldea, northern Chile : the surface deposits." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 1997.
-----. "The importance of being atacameño : political identity and mortuary ceramics in northern Chile." Diss. Binghamton University, 2002.
Thomas, David John. "The tertiary geology and systematic paleontology (phylum mollusca) of the Guajira Peninsula, Colombia, South America. " Diss. Binghamton University, 1972.
Thompson, Lanny. "Households and the reproduction of labor in Mexico, 1876-1970." Diss. Binghamton University, 1988.
Throup, Mary Ann. "Capital and output in the Mexican economy, 1939-67." Diss. Binghamton University, 1974.
-----. "Turning points in the postwar Mexican economy." MA Thesis. Binghamton University, 1967.
Valle, Eva Garcia. "Subsistencia y reproducción campesina en el marco del contexto capitalista : el caso de El Salto (1934-1999)." Diss. Binghamton University, 2001.
Vieux, Steve. "Democratization by revolt : the foundations of mid-century Chilean democracy, 1920-1932." Diss. Binghamton University, 1994.
Ward, John A. "Stratigraphy, depositional environments and diagenesis of the El Doctor platform, Queretaro, Mexico." Diss. Binghamton University, 1979.
Williams, Sherwyn Everade. "Interest rate policies in developing countries : the Guyana case." Diss. Binghamton University, 1987.
Winterbauer, Nancy L. "Psychosocial stress and gender-role ideology among Yucatec Mayan migrants to Cancun's 'Riviera Maya.'" Diss. Binghamton University, 2002.
Woodsong, Cynthia K. "Survival strategies of Jamaican small farming households." Diss. Binghamton University, 1991.