• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin

PORTAL

Web magazine of LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections

  • Home
  • About
  • Features
  • Arte/Letras
  • Black Diaspora
  • En Español
  • Indigenous Issues
  • Benson
  • Past Issues

post-custodial archives

Selections from the LADI Repository

October 30, 2020

BY DAVID A. BLISS THE LATIN AMERICAN DIGITAL INITIATIVES (LADI) website holds archival collections from six of the Benson’s post-custodial archival partner organizations in Latin America. Beginning in 2014, Benson archivists worked with partner institutions to digitize and describe collections … [Read more...] about Selections from the LADI Repository

Tagged With: Black Diaspora, Human Rights, LADI, Latin American Digital Initiatives, LLILAS Benson, post-custodial archives

The Hijuelas Books: Digitizing Indigenous Archives in Mexico

October 30, 2020

BY MATTHEW BUTLER and JOHN ERARD THE ROADS TO MICHOACÁN: MATTHEW BUTLER IT IS SAID that the history of a Mexican pueblo is the history of its lands. What better way, then, to explore that history than through land records such as Michoacán’s hijuelas books? I first came across these … [Read more...] about The Hijuelas Books: Digitizing Indigenous Archives in Mexico

Tagged With: British Library, endangered archives, hijuelas, Indigenous Issues, John Erard, Latin American Digital Initiatives, Matthew Butler, Michoacán, post-custodial archives, Student Research

The Quilombo Activists’ Archive: A Transcontinental Partnership

August 20, 2019

BY EDWARD SHORE CARLITOS DA SILVA was an activist and community leader from São Pedro, one of 88 settlements founded by descendants of escaped slaves known in Portuguese as quilombos, located in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil’s Ribeira Valley (Vale da Ribeira). During the early 1980s, amid an … [Read more...] about The Quilombo Activists’ Archive: A Transcontinental Partnership

Tagged With: Black Diaspora, Black Diaspora Archive, Edward Shore, Human Rights, land rights, LLILAS Benson, post-custodial archives, quilombolas, quilombos, Vale do Ribeira Brazil

Archiving Human Rights Documentation: The Promise of the Post-Custodial Approach in Latin America

August 5, 2016

BY THERESA E. POLK Guatemala’s internal armed conflict was brutal by all accounts, and justice for human rights violations has been notoriously difficult to attain in its wake. Yet there have also been some critical milestones, including convictions in 2010 for the forced disappearance of labor … [Read more...] about Archiving Human Rights Documentation: The Promise of the Post-Custodial Approach in Latin America

Tagged With: archiving, Benson Latin American Collection, Black Diaspora, Central America, Human Rights, post-custodial archives, Theresa Polk

Primary Sidebar

2021–2022 Edition

View All Issues

Search this site

Tweets by llilasbenson

LLILAS Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/UTLLILAS

Benson Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/utbenson

Footer

About LLILAS Benson

Portal is the annual review of LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, The University of Texas at Austin. Read More >

© 2023
LLILAS Benson

Contact Us

LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections
2300 Red River Street, Stop S5410
SRH 1.308
Austin, TX 78712-1469

512.232.2403

Give

Donate to LLILAS

Donate to Benson

Stay in Touch

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter

Email us

llilasbenson

UT Home • Emergency Information • Site Policies • Web Accessibility • Web Privacy • Adobe Reader

© 2023 The University of Texas at Austin