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INTRODUCTION
These papers, and those that will appear in the forthcoming volume 1, number 2, represent the top scholarship presented in the 1999 ILASSA Conference. They display efforts of up-and-coming academics in fields as diverse as sociology, history, business, anthropology, art history, economics, and others. In addition to the normal benefits which accrue from publication, it is our hope that by displaying the breadth and depth of scholarship from the conference that future presenters will have guidelines for the preparation of their papers and presentations for future conferences.
This project responds to a glaring need which the ILASSA Conference, after nineteen successful years, had not yet answered: the need to make the ideas presented at the Conference easily available to a wider audience. Thus, as this is the first edition of the ILASSA Conference Papers, the preparation of this has been a learning process for all of us.
From a field of more than one hundred presenters, panel moderators nominated each of the papers which appear here based on the quality of the research, analysis, and presentation. From this point forward nearly every step in this process has been electronic. Nominees sent us their papers for review via email, we proofread and returned them, and we are presently still receiving papers which will appear in volume 1, number 2. Converting the papers from documents to html has proved to be the most challenging part of this process. The software available for this purpose has not been standardized and produces less-than-perfect results. The reproduction of graphs, images, and endnotes compounds this problem. We apologize to everyone for the lack of uniformity which this has caused. As new software becomes available, and we master it, we hope to standardize the appearance of the papers in future editions of the ILASSA Conference Papers.
Thank yous are in order to the authors of each of the articles; the readers who proofread the articles; Beth Letalien and David Crow for their invaluable help; LANIC, for providing support and web space; and Virginia Haggerty at ILAS for her advice and expertice.
Regards,
Sean Hale
Chief Editor, ILASSA Conference Papers
President ILASSA 1998-2000
M.A. Candidate, University of Texas at Austin
PUBLICATION DATA
1999 ILASSA Conference Papers. vol. 1, no. 1. Austin, Texas: the Institute of Latin American Studies Student Association (ILASSA), 1999.
The following papers are published by the Institute of Latin American Studies Student Association (ILASSA) of the University of Texas at Austin, 1999. ILASSA holds the copyright for this Web Page; the individual authors, however, possess the copyrights for the papers presented herein.
We thank LANIC for providing the webspace and technical support which make this project possible.
CREDITS
| Chief Editor: | Sean Hale |
| Assistant Editors: | Beth Letalien |
| David Crow | |
| Copy Editors: | Leonora Dodge |
| Sean Hale | |
| Ann Elisabeth Laksfoss Hansen | |
| Susana Kaiser | |
| Beth Letalien | |
| Michael Mantak | |
| Laura Shankland | |
| Ken C. Ward | |
| Paula E. Winch |
THE PAPERS
Santeria Yesterday and Today: A New Level
of Syncretism
Niurca E. Márquez
Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Florida International
University
The Artisans of Mexico City: 1821-1830
Daniel Scot Gutiérrez
History, Harvard University
Latin American Grassroots Development
Forrest Metz
Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
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COPYRIGHTS FOR INDIVIDUAL PAPERS ARE HELD BY THEIR RESPECTIVE
AUTHORS. PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE PAPERS SHOULD BE REQUESTED
DIRECTLY FROM THE AUTHORS, AND ALL CITATIONS MUST FOLLOW "FAIR
USE" CRITERIA.
Web Page Design: Sean Hale & David Crow