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Latin American Civilization & Culture

Use this guide to locate resources and research strategies for the study of Latin American history, society, and culture.

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TIPS

Use the Advanced Search option.

  • Use All of These to search terms together (such as Latin America AND politics). See screenshot below.
  • Or use Any of These to search two fields simultaneously.

Use truncation.

  • Enables you to search for many words at the same time.
  • Ex: Searching for cultur* will find results that include the terms culture, cultural, and culturally.

Search the Notes field. 

  • Searches the table of contents of anthologies for chapters on the history, politics, culture, etc. of individual Latin American countries.

Search in both English and Spanish.

  • Table of contents may be listed in either language, so search both to find as much information as possible.

Search synonyms.

  • Always search for multiple terms (ex: drama, theater, plays, etc.).​​​​​​​

Want to Browse the Shelves?
Here are Some of the Relevant Call Numbers for this Class:

  • F 1201 - 3799 -- Latin American History & Culture
  • JL 950 - 3899 -- Latin American Politics, Political Institutions, & Public Administration
  • N 5300 - 7418 -- History of Art (includes works by region & country)
  • PQ 6001 - 8929 -- Spanish & Latin American Literature

Need a book the library does not own?

You can request the book through Interlibrary Loan.  Info and a downloadable form are available here!

To search for books available in other libraries, try using

WorldCat -- Search the holdings of more than 10,000 libraries to locate books and identify citation information.

OR

Library of Congress -- Access to the Library of Congress catalog and other online collections.

NOTE: Users do not need to identify a library that owns the book. Simply provide the appropriate information on the form and library staff will do the rest!