Geoscience and Man Volume 36   Table of Contents   Preface Miles Richardson Introduction Michael K. Steinberg and Paul F. Hudson Section I - Cultural Geography Departmental Overview Latin Americanist Geography at LSU: The First 50 Years Kent Mathewson Explorations Geometric Survey of Folk Housing and Culturogeographic Regions in Northeastern Mexico Scott S. Brown Grazing the Periphery: The Political Ecology of Private Ranchers in Sonora, Mexico Eric P. Perramond Guachipilines and Cercos Zanjos: Lenca Land Use in the Guajiquiro Biological Reserve Scott Brady Morphologies of Modernity in the Pech Region of Olancho, Honduras James R. Samson Jealous Conservationists: Terratenientes and Wildlife Protection in Olancho, Honduras Mark Bonta Local Perspectives on Erosion and Conservation of Soil Resources in Two Highland Guatemalan Municipios Steven J. Rainey Cultural Ecological Adaptation and Adjustment: The Case of Kitchen Gardens in the Mopan Maya Cultural Landscape Michael K. Steinberg Indigenous Mapmaking in the Americas: A Typology Peter H. Herlihy The Speech of Habitus in the New World: Divergence and Convergence in Landscape Practices of Administrative Towns in Spanish America and the American South Miles Richardson White Protest in Louisiana: A Spatial-Historical Analysis from 1948-91 John Heppen   Section II-Physical Geography Departmental Overview Physical Geography at LSU H. Jesse Walker Climatology at LSU Robert A. Muller Biogeography at LSU Kam-biu Liu Explorations Building on the Research of Our Founders: 65 Years of Chenier Plain Studies at LSU Matthew J. Taylor, Randolph A. McBride, Laurie C. Anderson, and Mark R. Byrnes Beach and Nearshore Responses During Winter Cold Front Passages Along a Sheltered, Micro-Tidal Coast: North Shore Santa Rosa Island, Florida Charles K. Armbruster and Gregory W. Stone Drainage Network Adjustment Following Channelization: Homochitto River Basin, Mississippi J. Michael Daniels Historic Channel Behavior of the Lower Mississippi River Paul F. Hudson Human Modifications to the Sediment Regime of the Lower Mississippi River Richard H. Kesel   Geoscience Publications