The Latin American and Iberian Institute (LAII) at The University of New Mexico (UNM) is one of the nation's leading foreign language and area studies centers. More than 130 UNM faculty specializing in Latin American research and teaching are members of the Faculty Concilium on Latin America and Iberia and are the primary constituency of the LAII. The LAII's Research Paper Series and Occasional Paper Series provide refereed forums for the timely dissemination of research on Latin American topics. Authors also gain the benefits of comment and criticism from the larger research community if they intend to later submit their work to other publications.

Follow


Submissions from 2013

PDF

Striae Re-Negotiated: The Self-Definition of the Yiddish-Speaking Jewish Community in the Era of Mexicos Raza cósmica, Beth Merfish

Submissions from 2011

PDF

O poder de consumo como instrumento da cidadania verde em Human Festa (2008), de Regina Rheda, Danielle Murta de Laborde Affonso

PDF

Políticas y Cultura en la Última Argentina Autoritaria: Estado y Teatro entre 1976 y 1983, Leonardo Mangialavori and Miguel Barrientos

PDF

El pensamiento intelectual comunista en Argentina: Una relectura de Héctor P. Agosti y su introducción al pensamiento de Gramsci, Alexia Massholder

PDF

TragiCIDADE - a violenta relação entre as diferentes classes sociais nos centros urbanos brasileiros e sua representação na literatura contemporânea, Daniela Meireles

PDF

Inquisitive Objects: Material Culture and Conversos in Early Modern Ciudad Real, Jessica Weiss

Submissions from 2010

PDF

The lexicon of Calunga and a lexical comparison with other forms of Afro-Brazilian speech from Minas Gerais, São Paulo, and Bahia, Steven Byrd

PDF

Negociación de mestizaje e identidad nacional nicaragüense en la obra teatral El Güegüense o Macho Ratón, Maria José García Otero

PDF

A Deleuzian approach to Carlos Reygadass Stellet Licht [Silent Light] (2008), Cynthia Tompkinis

Submissions from 2009

PDF

Alfonso X, St. James, and the Virgin, Anthony Cárdenas-Rotunno

PDF

Impunidade no sistema de justiça criminal brasileiro: Uma revisão dos estudos produzidos sobre o tema, Ludmila Ribeiro

PDF

Criminal Law as a Constitutive Strategy: The Colombian Case, Farid Samir Benavides Vanegas

Submissions from 2008

PDF

The 1525 Cromberger Crónica del Cid: From Press to Lap, Anthony Cárdenas-Rotunno

PDF

The Defense of the Spanish Empire and the Agency of Nature: Araucanía, Patagonia and Pampas during the Seventeenth Century, Margarita Gascón

Submissions from 2007

PDF

Emiliano Zapata: Figure, Image, Symbol, Theresa Avila

PDF

Fray Alonso de Benavides's Memoriales of 1630 and 1634: Preliminary Observations, Anthony J. Cárdenas-Rotunno

Submissions from 2006

PDF

Re-examining the Politics of U.S. Intervention in Early 20th Century Nicaragua: José Madriz and the Conservative Restoration, Yann Kerevel

Submissions from 2004

PDF

Political Justice: Sub-national Determinants of Judicial Efficiency in Mexico, 1993-2000, Matthew Ingram

PDF

Ranchoapan: The "New Obsidian" City of the Tuxtlas?, Robert S. Santley

Submissions from 2003

PDF

Maquila Employment and Fertility in Mexicali, Mexico: A Study of the Dynamics of Productive and Reproductive Relations, Robert Fiala and Susan Tiano

PDF

Channeling Discontent: The Impact of Political Institutions on Patterns of Social Protest in Contemporary Latin America, Roberta Rice

Submissions from 2002

PDF

Pre-paid Phone Cards, "Cosas," and Photos of the Saints: Transnational Santeria Practices in a Southwest City, Nancy J. Burke

Submissions from 2001

PDF

Society, Culture, and Heroes: Depictions of Cuban Heroine Mariana Grajales Cuello, 1893 - 2000, Rachel Elaine Archer

Submissions from 2000

PDF

Chicano Artists and Neo-Mexicanists: (De) Constructions of National Identity, Teresa Eckmann

PDF

No somos nada: Ethnicity and Three Dominant and Contradictory Indigenist Discourses in Costa Rica, Karen Stocker

Submissions from 1999

PDF

The Making of an Indigenous Movement: Culture Ethnicity, and Post-Marxist Social Praxis in Ecuador, Chad T. Black

PDF

Nicaraguan Gay and Lesbian Rights and the Sex of Post-Sandinismo, Alyssa Cymene Howe

PDF

"Ni chicha ni limonada": Depictions of the Mulatto Woman in Cuban Tobacco Art, Feliza Medrano

Submissions from 1998

PDF

The Delegitimation of Land Tenure in Tropical Peten, Guatemala, Charles Clark

Submissions from 1997

PDF

The Geography of Rio Grande Pueblos Revealed by Spanish Explorers, 1540-1598, Elinore M. Barrett

Submissions from 1996

PDF

The Economic Context of the Mexican Crisis, Geoffrey J. Bannister

PDF

Chinese Immigrants in Porfirian Mexico: A Preliminary Study of Settlement, Economic Activity and Anti-Chinese Sentiment, Raymond B. Craib III

Submissions from 1994

PDF

A New Perspective on Afro-Dominican Spanish: the Haitian Contribution, John M. Lipski

Submissions from 1993

PDF

Treasures of the Mama Huaca: Oral Tradition and Ecological Consciousness in Chinchaysuy, Enrique R. Lamadrid

PDF

On the Non-Creole Basis for Afro-Caribbean Spanish, John M. Lipski

Submissions from 1990

PDF

The Canudos War Collection, Victor F. Torres

Submissions from 1989

PDF

Undocumented Migration to the United States: Can the Flow be Stemmed?, Peter Gregory

PDF

Mexican Immigrant Labor: An Alternative Analysis and Policy Proposal, Thomas U. White

Submissions from 1988

PDF

Ceramic Production and Consumption in the Sierra de los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico, Philip J. Arnold III

PDF

A Description of Rare and Important Medina Imprints in the University of New Mexico Library, Russ Davidson

PDF

Perceptions of Spanish-English Code-Switching in Juarez, Mexico, Margarita Hidalgo

PDF

The Military Rule in Ecuador: Policies and Politics of Authoritarian Rule, John D. Martz

Submissions from 1987

PDF

The Social and Environmental Effects of the Palm-Oil Industry in the Oriente of Ecuador, John Myrick Ashley

Submissions from 1986

PDF

An Analysis of Inflation in the Small, Open Economy of Costa Rica, Victor Brajer

Submissions from 1985

PDF

Settlement and Community Patterns at Sayil, Yucatan, Mexico: The 1984 Season, Jeremy A. Sabloff, Gair Tourtellot, Bernd Fahmel Beyer, Patricia A. McAnany, Diana Christensen, Sylviane Boucher, and Thomas R. Killion

Submissions from 1984

PDF

Canto porque es necesario cantar: The New Song Movement in Chile, 1973-1983, Nancy E. Morris

PDF

Ancient Maya Settlement Patterns at the Site of Sayil, Puuc Region, Yucatan, Mexico: Initial Reconnaissance (1983), Jeremy A. Sabloff, Patricia A. McAnany, Bernd Fahmel Beyer, Tomas Gallareta N., Signa L. Larralde, and LuAnn Wandsnider

PDF

Final Field Report of the Matacapan Archaeological Project: The 1982 Season, Robert S. Santley, Ponciano Ortiz Ceballos, Thomas W. Killion, Philip J. Arnold, and Janet M. Kerley

Submissions from 1983

PDF

Black Labor on a White Canal: West Indians in Panama, 1904-1980, Michael L. Conniff

PDF

Conservation and Indigenous Human Land Use in the Río Plátano Watershed, Northeast Honduras, Jeffery W. Froehlich and Karl H. Schwerin

Submissions from 1982

PDF

Arms and Politics in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, 1948-1981, Stephen Earley

PDF

Peasants, Capitalists and the State: Mexico's Changing Agricultural Policies and the "Hungarian Project", James W. Wessman

Submissions from 1981

PDF

Undocumented Migration to the United States A New Perspective, Juan Diez-Canedo

PDF

Economic Development and the Labor Market in Mexico, Peter Gregory

PDF

Employment, Unemployment, and Underemployment in Latin America, Peter Gregory

PDF

Legal Minimum Wages as an Instrument of Social Policy in Less Developed Countries, with Special Reference to Costa Rica, Peter Gregory

PDF

The Challenge to Democratic Reformism in Ecuador, James Levy and Nick D. Mills Jr.

PDF

Caciquismo in Post-Revolutionary Mexican Ejido-Grant Communities, Paula L. W. Sabloff

Submissions from 1980

PDF

The Political Economy of Drug Trafficking: The Herrera Organization (Mexico and the United States), Peter A. Lupsha and Kip Schlegel