Browsing W&L Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program by Subject "Washington and Lee University -- Poster in Latin American and Caribbean Studies"
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The Alternative Lexington: Fashioning Home, Place, and Belonging among Lexington's Latino Immigrant Community
Faced with difficulties in joining Lexington's broader identities, I reason that the city's Latino immigrant population has largely crafted an alternative community -- or an "imagined" Lexington -- relying on the bonding ... -
Black-Robe Shamans: The Jesuits and the Guarani Land-Without-Evil
The Jesuits utilized the appropriation of the Tupí-‐Guaraní culture and spiritual practices as a means of quasi-syncretic evangelization in the Southern Cone. However successful, this doctrinally controversial activity ... -
Chagas Disease: Concerns in Argentina and the United States
American trypanosomiasis, more commonly known as Chagas disease, has been a neglected tropical disease for decades. Endemic to all of Latin America, Chagas disease is found most frequently in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, ... -
e Moviemento
Anthropologic movements within Brazil have traditionally been due to economic imbalances between regions, boom and bust cycles of natural commodities, frontier settlement, industrialization, and climate patterns. Oftentimes, ... -
Healing from Peru's Dirty War: Trauma, Memory, and Visual Arts
In this paper, I explore the traumatic effects in Peru after the twenty-year-long internal conflict between Sendero Luminoso (the Shining Path) and the Government(s) of Peru specifically through recent Peruvian art. In ... -
How Do You Integrate In Your Own Country? An Interdisciplinary Approach to Rural-to Urban Migration and Inclusion in Sao Paulo and Manaus, Brazil
We should view the trend of rural-to-urban migration as critical to the development of Brazil, whether that is through industrial development in São Paulo or commercial development in Manaus. However, the process of ... -
The Huichol Shaman: A Study in Cultural Memory
Who are the Huichol shamans, and what is the nature of their healing beliefs, traditions, and rituals? In the context of cultural memory studies, how have these beliefs, traditions, and rituals transcended strong cultural ... -
The Jewish Diaspora in Argentina: An Evolving Identity
The Jewish Diaspora in Argentina is an altogether unique entity; a small but strong community that has developed a distinctive and evolving modern Judeo-Argentine identity in the face of persistent anti-Semitism, unsupportive ... -
Marianismo as Cultural Memory
In many Hispano-American countries the Virgin mother is revered with social significance, often through the social determinants of religion. When viewed through the concept of cultural memory the ideal of the Virgin mother ... -
The Media's Voice When There Was No Other: Newspaper Coverage of the Argentine Dirty War
The period of state sponsored violence, known as the dirty war (guerra sucia), from 1976-1983 marked the disappearances, tortures and ultimately murders of an estimated 18,000 to 30,000 victims in Argentina. Throughout ... -
The Myth of the Melting Pot: An Economic Analysis of Immigration Policy in the U.S.
My capstone examines the topic of Latino immigration through an economic analysis of immigration reform in the United States. As my main case study, I evaluate Proposition 187 from 1994 in California. I then look at three ... -
The Past and Present Nutritional Trends in South America and the Interaction with the Western World
The folk wisdom of the native Indians remarkably proceeded thousands of years of scientific research. Their knowledge is a testament to understanding one's body and one's surrounding. However, due to globalization, these ... -
Place and Displacement. LACS396 Capstone, 2013
Place has become a powerful metaphor to convey a sense of personal belonging, though the notion of place goes far beyond physical or geographical location. Environment, conservation, politics, religion, myth, personal and ... -
Que terra sem homens? : The Brazilian Government's Failed Policies in Amazonia (poster)
The positivist, developmentist, and nationalist top-down policies implemented by the Brazilian Government during the Old Republic, Estado Novo, and military regime periods failed to incorporate Amazonia into the rest of ... -
The Trajectory of an Image: Che Guevara's Legacy in the Context of Cultural Memories (poster)
The proliferation of murals, posters, monuments, museums and tourist sites dedicated to Che speaks to the lasting cultural relevance of Che as a man, and Che as a symbol. The various permutations of Che -- seen in the ...