Central Northern Mexico Research Articles

Fascioliasis in Pregnancy

Fascioliasis is a common zoonotic infection worldwide, although cases in the United States are uncommon, sporadic, and predominantly found in the immigrant population. The small number of cases identified in the United States may reflect the unfamiliarity of physicians with this infection. A 28-year-old Hispanic woman who frequently visited northern Central Mexico presented at 36 weeks of gestation with nausea, vomiting, and right upper quadrant pain. She was diagnosed with cholelithiasis. Postpartum endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography and sphincterotomy were performed, with discovery of the trematode Fasciola hepatica. The patient received triclabendazole, which led to clinical improvement. Fascioliasis often mimics another common problem in pregnancy, cholelithiasis; clinicians need to be aware of this disease in high-risk populations.

Studies in the GenusDyschoriste(Acanthaceae): I. Plants of Northern Mexico, Texas to Arizona

Abstract: A systematic treatment of Dyschoriste (Acanthaceae) of northern Mexico, Arizona, and Texas is provided. The taxa show few unique characteristics; taxonomy is largely based on differences in vestiture and growth habit; intergradation is widespread. Five species are recognized: (1) D. schiedeana with four intergrading varieties, var. schiedeana, var. cinerascens, var. decumbens, and var. prostrata, of central-northern Mexico north to trans-Pecos Texas and Arizona; (2) D. linearis var. linearis and var. sanpatriciensis of Texas; (3) D. crenulata, of the Big Bend area and southmost Texas and adjacent Mexico; (4) D. poliodes var. poliodes, var. obispoensis, and var. glabra; and (5) D. greenmanii of Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas. Keys and descriptions are provided.

Problems in the Study of Apaches and Other Indians in Chihuahua and Southern New Mexico During the Spanish and Mexican Periods

ABSTRACTThere are a considerable number of unused or underused documentary sources that are available for investigating the ethnohistory of the Apache and Comanche, as well as other Native Americans in the area of central northern Mexico during the Spanish and Mexican periods. Some of the possibilities for research and the major sources are discussed.

Computer-assisted compilation of a Nahuatl dictionary

Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs and many of their neighbors, survives as the language of a million people living in Mesoamerica today. Communities of Nahuatl speakers are to be found from northern Central Mexico to El Salvador and from Vera Cruz to Michoacan. It is the best documented of all indigenous American languages. Used as a lingua franca throughout Mesoamerica during the precolumbian period of Aztec expansion and continuing as a lingua franca during most of the Spanish colonial period, Nahuatl is the language of countless local records and documents which are only now beginning to be mined for their historical and linguistic significance. At the time of the European conquest the Nahuas shared with several other Mesoamerican groups a writing system that was partially pictorial and partially syllabic. Thanks to this, they brought a ready receptivity to European alphabetic writing which the Spanish friars adapted to their language. Until recently the friars' sixteenth-century grammatical descriptions of the language and fray Alonso de Molina's dictionary of 1571 have remained the standard reference books for research in and about Nahuatl, but now modern research tools are being created for linguists, anthropologists, historians, archaeologists, and lexicographers. One of them is An Analytical Dictonary of Nahuatl, which we compiled at the Linguistics Research Center of the University of Texas.

Culture Change and Shifting Populations in Central Northern Mexico

Historical investigation of culture contact between raiding aboriginal Indian groups and Spanish colonists. Significant insights concerning conflicting concepts of ownership and property.

: Culture Change and Shifting Populations in Central Northern Mexico . William B. Griffen.

: Culture Change and Shifting Populations in Central Northern Mexico . William B. Griffen.

Culture Change and Shifting Populations in Central Northern Mexico.

Culture Change and Shifting Populations in Central Northern Mexico.

Culture Change and Shifting Populations in Central Northern Mexico

Culture Change and Shifting Populations in Central Northern Mexico

Culture Change and Shifting Population in Central Northern Mexico

Culture Change and Shifting Population in Central Northern Mexico