Evaluates the economic and social impact of the large migrations which took place in Central America during the 1980s, especially from El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala, to Costa Rica, Mexico, and Belize
A research project covering the Mexico-Belize border underpins an exploration of nodal elements of the theocratic identity of Jehovah's Witnesses. Conception & form of behavior are documented in religion, society, & family, generating an image of a scenario where many of the social relations in the religious group are reproduced
"Henri de Saussure, représentant d'une illustre famille de scientifiques suisses, voyage au Mexique entre 1854 et 1856 : l'A. s'intéresse moins à l'ample moisson de spécimens de toute nature qu'il réalise qu'à la manière dont il vit son aventure au jour le jour, révélant ses préjugés de classe et d'occidental face au monde latino-américain des Antilles ou du Mexique, qu'il parcourt tambour battant sur les traces du baron de Humboldt." (Refdoc.fr)
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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221 p, Uses documents in the area to trace the history of the black population in Central America. Identifies four different black cultures, each serving as a control to a stage of historical development of the isthmus. The Maroons of Panama, fugitive slaves of the Spanish colony; Blacks in Nicaragua and Belize, accompanying English pirates in the seventeenth century; Caribbean blacks deported from their native island to Honduras during European settlement in the Lesser Antilles; and Jamaican blacks attracted by job prospects offered by big yards and banana plantations in Panama and Costa Rica at the turn of the century.
