Mexican Indian Costumes

Folk Costumes in South-eastern Moravia Today*

This contribution discusses the current status of folk costumes in south-eastern Moravia. At the theoretical level, it categorizes levels of clothing culture as they pertain to folk costumes and further addresses the political, social and economic conditions and associations that enable, or even support, the parallel existence of these categories of folk costumes. Although folk costumes, in the...

The Corporate Masquerade: Branding Masculinity Through Halloween Costumes

This paper argues that men’s Halloween costumes do not offer insight on versions of hegemonic and non-hegemonic masculine performativity as much as Halloween costumes tell us about the colonization of masculinity by commercial interests, thus creating yet another version of branded masculinity. The data, from a content analysis of 100 images of men’s Halloween costumes, demonstrates the conside...

Envisioning the Future of Wearable Play: Conceptual Models for Props and Costumes as Game Controllers

In this paper we discuss the difficulties faced by designers attempting to create new engaging embodied interactions in games. We argue that the inability of embodied game interfaces to move past the “novelty hardware” stage and into the mainstream of gaming lies not with a failure of technology, but with a need to develop more mature design frameworks. In this paper we propose a series of conc...

A Comparative Analysis of Mexican and Non-mexican Undocumented Workers

Obesity in American Indian and Mexican American Men and Women: Associations with Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular Autonomic Control

Obesity is a serious public health problem, especially in some minority communities, and it has been associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases. While obesity is a serious health concern in both American Indian and Mexican American populations, the relationship between obesity and cardiac autonomic control in these two populations is not well understood. The present study in a...