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MUSEUMS,
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Instituto
Latinoamericano de Museos/Latin American Institute of
Museums
http://www.ilam.org/
Links to home pages of Latin American museums (art,
archaeology, history, and natural history) organized
by country. Primarily Spanish.
ICOM:
Virtual Library Museum Pages: Museums in Latin America
http://icom.museum/vlmp/latin-america.html
Index of links to Latin American museums (art, archaeology,
history, and natural history) organized by country.
Home page is bilingual Spanish and English; most of
the links are in Spanish.
Cultural
Readings: Colonization and Print in the Americas/Penn
Library Exhibitions
http://www.library.upenn.edu/special/gallery/kislak/index/cultural.html
Overview of University of Pennsylvania's exhibition
on the collections of the Jay I. Kislak Foundation and
the Rosenbach Museum and Library. Includes dozens of
images from the exhibition (in thumbnail-expandable
format) as well as commentary on the exhibition and
associated lectures. In English.
Museum
of Spanish Colonial Art
http://www.spanishcolonial.org/index.shtml
General information page for the Santa Fe museum, including
brief discussions of media and production techniques
accompanied by small images. In English.
Mexico:
From Empire to Revolution
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/digital/mexico/flash_english/intro.htm
Overview of two Getty exhibitions of nineteenth- and
early twentieth-century Mexican photography. High-quality
scans of 75 photographs, accompanied by historical information.
Focus is largely post-colonial. Bilingual Spanish and
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HISTORY
AND ART HISTORY RESOURCES |
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Sources
and General Resources on Latin America
http://www.oberlin.edu/~svolk/latinam.htm
Extensive index of links to Latin America-related databases
and informational sites, as well as to bibliographic
information. Home page is in English; links may be either
English or Spanish.
Advanced Research in Latin American Studies
http://latcar.rutgers.edu/lauria/advanced/index.htm
Index of links to dozens of sites in the United States,
Latin America, and Europe. Includes links to microfilm,
manuscript, newspaper, and periodical collections from
national archives, libraries, and government sites.
Mainly English.
Study
of Colonial Latin America
http://gopher.fsu.edu/~sarias/colonial.html#complete
Index of links to a small number of primary sources
(in both Spanish and English), as well as a more extensive
list of Internet projects, journals, libraries, museum
exhibitions, and organizations. Mostly English.
E-Journal:
UNAM
http://www.ejournal.unam.mx/
An electronic library with full-text access to selected
journals published by Universidad Nacional Autonóma
de México. Journals of particular interest include
Estudios de Cultural Nahuatl and Estudios
de Historia. In Spanish.
Anales
del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas
http://www.analesiie.unam.mx/
Current and previous issues of this journal online.
Full text and image available for essays on visual culture
of the viceregal period, particularly the art and architecture
of New Spain. In Spanish.
LANIC:
Latin American Network Information Center
http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/
Index of links regarding a variety of topics within
Latin America. See especially the categories of Libraries,
Social Sciences, and Society and Culture. LANIC itself
is in English, but many of the links are in Spanish.
Arts
and History: Virtual Forum of Mexican Culture
http://www.arts-history.mx
Index of links regarding various aspects of Mexican
culture and history, including archives, archaeological
sites, timelines, and brief articles on topics ranging
from textiles to the Mexican Revolution. Mainly Spanish.
CLASE:
Citas Latinomericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades
http://ahau.cichcu.unam.mx:8000/ALEPH
Searchable index of 1300 journals from Latin America
and the Caribbean, based at the Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México. Index includes links
to full-text articles. In Spanish and English. |
PRIMARY
DOCUMENT COLLECTIONS ON-LINE |
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Internet
Modern History Sourcebook: Colonial Latin America
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook08.html
Includes many primary documents on colonial Latin
America. A good place to look for primary sources in
translation. In English.
Sor
Juana Inés de la Cruz Project at Dartmouth
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sorjuana/
Contains the complete works and chronology of the life
of the “Poet Nun” Sor Juana Inés
de la Cruz, as well as a digital reconstruction of the
first (non-textual) pages of Fama, y obras posthumas
(1700). The site is in English, her works in the original
Spanish.
Colonial
Latin America
http://faculty.smu.edu/bakewell/
Extensive collection of documents and images from the
colonial period, navigable by period, creator/author,
and media (object, sound, text). Also includes a timeline
of significant events up to 1825. In English.
The
Mapas Project
http://whp.uoregon.edu/mapas
Site devoted to indigenous histories from Mesoamerica.
Includes database of pictorial and textual manuscripts
(Nahua, Zapotec, Mixtec). Site includes some digital
facsimiles and explanatory texts for the manuscripts.
In English. Password required (write to: swood@darkwing.uoregon.edu).
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ARCHIVES
AND LIBRARIES |
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Archivo
General de Indias, Seville, Spain.
http://www.mcu.es/archivos/MC/AGI/index.html
Main repository for Spanish government documents
pertaining to, and produced in, Spanish America. Virtual
exhibitions of images from AGI collections, information
on the holdings and history of the archive, a link to
Archivos Españoles en Red, which allows registered
users (registration forms are on-line) to remotely access
scans of archival documents in the AGI. In Spanish.
John
Carter Brown Library
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/
One of major US collections of documents from the
colonial Americas. Site includes a catalog of the JCB
Library holding, and an under-construction, searchable
collection of 5000 documents in "The Archive of
Early American Images." In English.
Library of Congress: Hispanic Reading Room
http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/
Catalogue
of collections of the Hispanic Reading Room, a series
of online exhibitions on colonial Latin America, and
links to other Library of Congress resources, including
"The Handbook of Latin American Studies" and
"Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier:
Historias Paralelas." In English, Spanish, and
Portuguese.
UNESCO
Archives Portal for National Archives in Latin America
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_archives/pages/Archives/
National_Archives/Latin_America/index.shtml
UNESCO's portal to the web sites of national archives
from 17 Latin American countries. In English.
Benson
Latin American Collection, University of Texas Austin.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/benson/index.html
A major US collection of documents about Latin America,
both pre- and post-Independence, with emphasis on Mexico.
Includes links to online databases on Latin American
scholarship and Benson collections. In English.
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Copyright
2005, Dana Leibsohn and Barbara Mundy
Please credit as: Leibsohn, Dana, and Barbara Mundy, Vistas: Visual Culture
in Spanish America, 1520-1820.
https://www.smith.edu/vistas, 2005.
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