In this issue....


Crossing Swords
A Shortcut to Development?
By Selwyn Ryan
Responses and Replies
Kruijer and Dew
Theory and Practice in Nicaragua
The Economics of Class Dynamics
By Forrest D. Colburn
Interviewing James F "Son" Mitchell
In the Center Looking for Change
By Gary Brana-Shute
On the Nature of Zombie Existence
The Reality of a Voudou Ritual
By Bernard Diederich
The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie
On the Pharmacology of Black Magic
By E. Wade Davis
Notes on the Reconquest
The Latin Americanization of the United States?
By Alejandro Portes


Page 14


Page 22


Between Two Worlds
Educated Puerto Rican Migrant Women
By Virginia E. SAnchez-Korrol
A Decent Woman
Abstracts From a New Novel
By Miguel Correa
A Clash of Cultures
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
A Film Review by Tomas Rivera
Tales of the High Seas
Gay Pirates in the 17th Century Caribbean
Reviewed by Arthur N. Gilbert
An Aristocratic Briton Views the
Twilight of Empire
Thoughts on a Travel Classic
Reviewed by Daniel J. Crowly
Recent Books
An Informative Listing on the Caribbean,
Latin America and their Emigrant Groups
By Marian Goslinga


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On the Cover:


"Pointing to a lumpy scar
on his right cheek, Nar-
cisse said in his slow de-
liberate manner, 'One of
the nails in my coffin did
this; it went through my
cheek.'"


"Individual characteris-
tics brought by immi-
grants to the United
States do not suffice to
explain their process of
economic and social
adaptation."


"It is, in the end, a hu-
manization of the dif-
ferences between men
and women of different
cultural perspectives-
an attempt at under-
standing and the tragic
circumstances of misun-
derstanding and in-
ability to communicate
between cultures."


The Zombies by Haitian
artist Hector Hyppolite
(oil on masonite, 155 by
192 cm). Painted in
1946, it now hangs at the
Mus6e d'Art Haitien de
College Saint-Pierre in
Port-au-Prince. See re-
lated stories, pages 14
and 18.


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