Antonio N. Zavaleta, Ph.D. & Mitchell A. Kaplan, Ph.D. The practice of using plant-based entheogenic psychoactive substances as a means of spiritual transcendence is well-documented in the literature of ancient Mesoamerican civilizations. Archaeologists who have conducted excavations at Mesoamerican sites…
Antonio Noé Zavaleta, Ph.D.i and Mitchell A. Kaplan, Ph.D.ii INTRODUCTION From 2010 to 2014, the United States experienced an unprecedented rise in undocumented immigration along the Texas-Mexico border.iii The Lower Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol sector saw the highest-ever influx…
By Antonio Noé Zavaletai Introduction: The Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas Over the course of the last 20 years, more and more attention has been focused on the condition of Latino children living along the U.S.-Mexico border; especially in the…
Antonio N. Zavaleta | Tropical Texas Behavioral Health | Mindscape: Behavioral Health Today | South Padre Island Oct. 23, 2009 INTRODUCTION: Do cultural factors characteristic of Latino populations affect their health status, their health choices and our ability to deliver…
Dr. Antonio Zavaleta Associate Provost and Professor of Anthropology - The University of Texas at Brownsville Understanding Culture Objective #1 Culture refers to all learned patterns of human behavior including language, thoughts, communications, actions, customs, beliefs, values, and institutions…
In: Further Studies in Rio Grande Valley History, January 2003, Edition: Chapter: The Zavaleta Family: A Legacy of Public Service, pp.25-70, The University of Texas at Brownsville, Editors: Milo Kearney, Anthony Knopp, and Antonio Zavaleta. Antonio Zavaleta at University of…
The following article was written by Dr. Antonio N. Zavaleta to be published as a preface to the proceedings of the Rio Grande Valley Public Health Community Conference that took place on June 8th, 2000 sponsored by the UTHSC-School of Public Health…
By Antonio Zavaleta and Joseph Spielberg-Benitez The Prelude As the nineteenth century dawned in celebration, Mexico could not imagine that the events of the first decades of the new century would change her forever. In fact, the first three decades of…
This essay was originally written in the English language for inclusion in Zellner, ed., SECTS, CULTS, AND SPIRITUAL COMMUNITIES (Praeger Publishers, an imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, Ct, 1998). For further information please visit http://www.greenwood.com Antonio N. Zavaleta: Antonio…
"Dr. Antonio Zavaleta has formal permission to translate into Spanish and publish in the international SOCIOTAM magazine in Mexico his chapter in Sects, cults, and spiritual communities (Zellner and Petrowsky, eds.), Praeger Publishers, Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. , Westport, CT,…
