Research and Course Guides: SPAN 332 Culture & Civilization of Latin America: Getting Started

Introduction

This online guide provides information and links to resources for culture and civilization for Latin America available via UST Libraries. Use the tabs to help find books, academic articles, videos, as well as how to cite sources. Contact the Cindy Badilla-Meléndez, Modern & Classical Languages Liaison Librarian if you have questions or need research assistance.

Selected Titles

The New Global Frontier by George Martine (Editor);
Call Number: HT371 .N475 2008
Frida Kahlo : retrospective
Call Number: N6559.K34 A4 2010
Religion in Latin America : a documentary history
Call Number: BL2540 .R45 2006
Bartolomé de las Casas and the conquest of the Amer
Call Number: E125.C4 C53 2011

Enciclopedia, Dictionaries Reference Books

Oxford Spanish Dictionary Online
Call Number: ONLINE
A Companion to Latin American History
Call Number: ONLINE
This work provides an overview of the history of Latin America in all its diversity. Comprising 28 chapters by leading world experts, this is a single source of information for scholars and students interested in Latin America's past and is the ideal starting point for further study.
Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society & Culture
Call Number: ONLINE
It presents a processual view of Mexican history, society and culture from ancient civilizations to the present day.
Iberia and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History
Call Number: ONLINE
This comprehensive encyclopedia covers the reciprocal effects that the politics, foreign policy, and culture of Spain, Portugal, and the American nations have had on one another since the time of Columbus.
Pop Culture Latin America! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle
Call Number: ONLINE
A survey of contemporary Latin American popular culture, covering topics that range from music and film to popular festivals and fashion.
The companion to Hispanic studies
Call Number: ONLINE
'Hispanic Studies' is broadly concerned with the languages and cultures of the vast 'Hispanic' world, extending chronologically from Roman Hispania to today, and geographically from Roman Hispania to today, and geographically from California in the North to Patagonia in the South, and from Majorca in the East to the Andes in the West.