Research Area: Regional Studies:
Other Latin America

Funded & Affiliated Research

Mexico: Maquila, Environmental Vulnerability, and Health (Harlow)

Recent Publications

Journal Articles

2008

Wong, Rebeca, Ofstedal, Mary Beth, K. Yount, and Emily M. Agree. 2008. "Unhealthy lifestyles among older adults: exploring transitions in Mexico and the US." European Journal of Ageing, 5(4): 311-326.

2003

Sievert, Lynette Leidy, and Susan Hautaniemi Leonard. 2003. "Age at menopause in Puebla, Mexico." Human Biology, 75(2): 205-226.

2002

Johnson, Paul C. 2002. "Migrating Bodies, Circulating Signs: Brazilian Candomblé, the Garifuna of the Caribbean, and the Category of ‘Indigenous Religions’." History of Religions, 41(4): 301-327.

Johnson, Paul C. 2002. "Models of the body in the ethnographic study of religion: the cases of Brazilian Candomble and the Garifuna of the Caribbean." Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, 14: 170-195.

Chapters

Johnson, Paul C. Forthcoming. "Vodou Purchase: The Louisiana Purchase in a Caribbean Perspective." In Moving Boundaries: American Religion(s) through the Louisiana Purchase edited by Richard Callahan.

Johnson, Paul C. 2005. "Religion and transculturation: the Caribbean." In Encyclopedia of Religion. New York: Macmillan.

Johnson, Paul C. 2005. "Garifuna religion." In Encyclopedia of Religion. New York: Macmillan.

PSC Reports

Binstock, Georgina, and Arland Thornton. 2006. "Knowledge and Use of Developmental Thinking about Societies and Families among Teenagers in Argentina." PSC Research Report No. 06-587. January 2006.

Thornton, Arland, Georgina Binstock, and Dirgha Ghimire. 2004. "International Networks, Ideas, and Family Change." PSC Research Report No. 04-566. October 2004.


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New Publications

Bingenheimer & Geronimus, "Behavior & HIV"

Wildeman, "Imprisonment & Infant Mortality," PSC Research Report

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