Tag: Nettie Lee Benson
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The Archives of Viche: Black Women and the Embodied Production of Distilled Spirits in the Colombian Pacific
By CAMILLE C. CARR La memoria de mis ancestras camina conmigo y me acompaña a todas partes. [The memory of my female ancestors walks by…
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Silks and Swords: Sumptuary Laws and Gender in Colonial Mexico
By HALEY SCHROER On June 8, 1685, Don Diego de García, cacique, or Indigenous leader, from Tlapa (now in modern-day Guerrero), petitioned the viceroy of…
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Black Women Who Move Mountains: Responding to Crisis in Rio de Janeiro’s Complexo do Alemão
By ANA CAROLINA ASSUMPÇÃO Ler em português IN TIMES OF CRISIS, people come together for mutual support. This has not changed since the first months…
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In Memoriam: Nora England, Visionary Linguist and Mentor
By SUSANNA SHARPE NORA ENGLAND’S PASSION FOR LINGUISTICS was sparked in college, where, almost on a whim, she enrolled in a field methods course. “That…
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Estampa: A Walk with Mauricio Tenorio
By RODRIGO SALIDO MOULINIÉ Historian Mauricio Tenorio Trillo was the opening keynote speaker at the 2022 Lozano Long Conference, “Archiving Objects of Knowledge with Latin…
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Street Protests and Land Use: Theorizing Spatial Inequality in Brazil
By FERNANDO LUIZ LARA IN JUNE OF 2013, over forty UT Austin faculty members and a similar number of Brazilian officials met in the halls…
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To the Reader, 2022 Edition
IT IS A GREAT PLEASURE to welcome you to Portal, a window to Latin American Studies and Collections at UT Austin. We want to provide…
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Faculty Spotlight: Mallory Matsumoto
ONE OF THE MANY FASCINATING ASPECTS of Classic Maya civilization (250–900 CE) is that a series of common cultural traits appear in settlements that are…
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Faculty Spotlight: Amy E. Thompson
IN HER RESEARCH, Assistant Professor Amy E. Thompson (Department of Geography and the Environment) uses transdisciplinary approaches of geospatial methods with traditional archaeological techniques to…
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Un pueblo entre el agua. La creación de la represa en El Peñol y Guatapé en el Oriente antioqueño, Colombia
Por CINDIA ARANGO LÓPEZ Read in English A PRINCIPIOS DE 1960, los habitantes de los municipios de El Peñol y de Guatapé, asentamientos localizados en…
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Mulheres Negras que Movem Montanhas: Uma Resposta à Crise no Complexo do Alemão
Por ANA CAROLINA ASSUMPÇÃO Read in English DURANTE MOMENTOS DE CRISE, é possível observar que grupos de pessoas se unem com o propósito de ajuda…
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Conference Preview: A Water-Centered Perspective on Latin America and the Caribbean
2023 Lozano Long Conference WATER IS ESSENTIAL for biological life as we know it, but it is also essential for livelihoods ranging from the individual…
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To the Reader
ON FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2020, The University of Texas at Austin announced that it was canceling classes and closing the campus due to community spread…