HIST 309: Knowledge, Power and the Production of History in Latin America (HC)

    Folding screen (biombo) with indigenous wedding and flying pole, ca 1690, Mexican, Los Angeles Museum of Art  (flickr, photo by Joel Parham,                                                    Creative Commons 2.0 license)  Figures celebrate Pre-Columbian culture in dance and games. 

Use the Tripod catalog for your home institution    This link opens in a new window  This link opens in a new window  to look for all books (print and digital) owned by your college as well as the print titles at the other two schools.  

The following searches are a sampling of possibilities.  To find materials on a topic, try doing a keyword search in the Tripod Catalog to find relevant materials and then use the subject headings assigned to those titles to find more books.  Note that all these searches are in the Books+Media channel.  In examples #1 and 4 below, using keywords (rather than subjects) will pick up results from chapter titles.

       (politics OR power) AND "latin america" AND history  [Keyword search]           Limited to 2010-2021 publications

       "latin america*" AND history [Subjects] AND "social movements" [Keyword]         Sorted by newest titles first.

       (education OR literacy) AND (mexic* OR "latin america") [Subjects] AND (indigen* OR indian*) [Keywords]       

       ("oral histor*" OR reportage OR testimonio*) [Keywords] AND ("latin america*") [Subject]      

      (decolon* OR postcolon*) [Keywords] AND (history) AND (bolivia* OR peru* OR andes OR andean)  [Subjects]      

**  Try opening a search above and replace one of the topics with your research interest.

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