1999 ILASSA Conference Papers

INTRODUCTION

These papers, and those that appeared  in the previous volume 1, number 1, 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 for final editing.  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. 2.  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 Editor: Beth Letalien
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

 

Entre la desesperación y la moderonlatría de la urbe:   tres poetas de la vanguardia latinoamericana de los años treinta
Russel Cobb
University of Texas at Austin


The Mexican Melting Pot:  Race and Migration in 1920s Mexico
Leonora Acheson Dodge
University of Texas at Austin

The Invention of Traditions in a Colonial context:   Commemorations of July 25 and July 4 in Puerto Rico, 1899-1968
Margarita Flores
University of Puerto Rico

 

Violencia y Ciudadanía:  El conflicto político en Colombia como un enfrentamiento de proyectos ciudadanos
Miguel García Sánchez
Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogotá)

 

Primary Health Care Delivery in Chile:  Local Level Limitations
Jasmine Gideon
University of Manchester

 

Strategic Charity:  Mexico and the Spanish Refugees
Ann Elisabeth Laksfoss Hansen
University of Texas at Austin

 

Cambio y valores colectivos en la narrativa de dos escritores peruanos:  Julio Ramón Ribeyro (1929-1994) y José Hidalgo (1937-  )
Patricia Goitia Lebo
University of Texas at Austin

 

Población, producción y medio ambiente en una zona de transición agrícola:  el caso de agrosistema chinampero en Xochimilco (México D.F.)
Fernando Neira Orjuela
Colegio de México

 

Tecnología crediticia dirigida a la pequeña empresa en el Perú
Edwin Peccio y Juan Carlos Ramírez
Pontífica Universidad Católica del Perú

 


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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