SPAN 320: Spanish American Colonial Writings (HC)

This online catalog is gathering records for all books printed in Latin America prior to 1851 as well as books in Spanish published in the United States and the Philippines. Later it plans to provide full-text access for titles.

Provides access to collections and digitized images of documents and books from major libraries in Mexico. Note in particular the Archivo Franciscano.

Makes available over 300, 000 documents from Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, and Spanish Florida. The largest number date from the 18th and 19th centuries, but there is material from earlier periods as well. Note, as an example, a transcription of baptismal records from Havana, 1590-1600 which documents family and social networks for individuals who are frequently categorized with a racial term.

Full text versions of travel accounts written in the 16th through 19th centuries.

This project is under development but includes documents and letters concerning the Jesuits in colonial Latin America.

Presents material on colonial theater, religious festivals, popular dance and music, upper class entertainments, and bull fighting. Includes excerpts and images from documents housed in Mexican archives and libraries.

Themes treated include metizaje, politics, religion, and material culture. "The website provides a gallery of more than 100 color images, interpretive essays, and a searchable bibliography on visual culture."

Ticha is an online, digital explorer for a corpus of Colonial Zapotec texts. (The name ticha comes from the Colonial Valley Zapotec word for ‘word’, which also means ‘language’.) Zapotec is an indigenous language family of Mexico, has a long record of alphabetic texts, the earliest dated 1565 (Oudijk 2008:230).