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General
I can't be certain exactly how this site (titled the Voice of the Shuttle) is connected to the University of California at Santa Barbara. At any rate, the hope is to put together a huge collection of links to web resources in the humanities. What's been done so far is pretty impressive. Taken as a whole I'm not sure if you get an overview of contemporary study in the humanities or an overview of the way academicians are using the web--maybe both. Here are some of the pages that I've explored:
Area studies
-Caribbean Studies
-Latin American and Mexican Studies
Neither of these subdivisions under area studies can hold a candle to lanic, however, there were a few items that I hadn't seen elsewhere.
Cultural Studies
-Authors, Writers, Theorists
-Censorship
-Culture/Canon Wars
Among the authors you'll find links to materials on Stuart Hall (although I think these are the ones that are dead ends) and C.L.R. James. The subcategory on the canon gives some glimpse of the nature of that struggle.
The section on censorship offers one link in particular worth looking at: http://www.thefileroom.org
This site is an "installation" exhibited a few years ago by some artists in Chicago. You can search their file by location to look through approximately 20 instances of censorship in South America. Granted, in light of all the other difficulties in these countries. some of this would seem like fairly ridiculous stuff to be worried about, however...
Literature English
-Other literatures written in English
-Caribbean
Literatures Other Than English
-Spanish and Portuguese
These are categories I have done nothing more than skim, but are clearly of some interest.
There may well be other categories here that would be worth looking at in connection with the literatures and the arts south of our borders, I just haven't had a chance to explore the site deeply enough to know.
As I think about this project it occurs to me that it's a sort of web "card catalogue."
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http://garnet.berkeley.edu/~las10
this is the address for The University of California's introductory undergraduate course in Latin American studies. If you were enrolled in the course you would visit here throughout the semester for information about the class and a host of supplementary materials available on the web. They have an interesting bibliography of recent academic books on Latin America, as well as bibliographies of a half-dozen individual nations. Their list of web resources comes with this apt notice: "One final friendly warning: You could easily spend the rest of your life browsing through these directories."
Editor’s note: The course, and the website, have undergone some revision. Here’s the most recent version of the site (Spring 2003) I can find.
http://lib.nmsu.edu/subject/bord/laguia/
one of the frequent contributors to the lasnet user group is a woman named Molly Molloy. I now realize where her interest derives from. Apparently she is a librarian at New Mexico State in Las Cruces and has compiled this excellent annotated list of Latin American web resources for students there.
Publishers
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Complete/Subjects/112.html
this address will put you right at the list of Latin American titles published by the University of Chicago Press--maybe thirty or forty entries. Obviously this is all nonfiction, with the emphasis upon history, politics and economics, but there look to be a couple of interesting anthropological studies and some other stray works of note, for example, da Cunha's Rebellion.
Reading List
http://www.public.asu.edu/~spyne/environrdg.html
I think the individual who compiled this list was interested in a "best of" approach rather than completeness. The list seeks a broad overview of environmental studies. Because I have not read widely in environmental literature the categories alone interested me. You'll find several books by Carl Sauer mentioned here, as well as a list of about ten titles under "Caribbean/South America."
Book Reviews
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/gs/the-americas.html
this is the address for the recent articles and book reviews related to the Western Hemisphere in the journal Foreign Affairs. During the 1990’s almost all of the reviews were written by Kenneth Maxwell, who has done a very competent (and probably thankless) job of describing these titles, most of which are in the political vein.
Editor’s note: The reviews collected at this site now number just short of 500, running back as far as 1989.
Author Foundation
apparently Carlos Castañeda has taken up a new phase of his career. His site will give you more information about his decision to make himself accessible. At the site there is a list of all of his dozen or more titles (with those great covers reproduced here), as well as titles written by three other apprentices of the sorcerer. Castañeda is about to publish a 30th anniversary edition of The Teachings of Don Juan as well as a new volume titled Magical Passes: The Practical Wisdom of the Shamans of Ancient Mexico.
Political Organizations
http://www.blythe.org/peru-pcp/index.html
this is the official home page for the Sendero Luminosa (otherwise known as the Communist Party of Peru--PCP). Having read accounts of Shining Path members by Rosenberg and Guillermoprieto, I was curious. The visual imagery of the first page is really something else when it comes to symbolic representations of ultimate truth.
http://ils.unc.edu/~marsc/sendero.htm
this woman, Cathy Marsicek, at the University of North Carolina, was more than a little curious about Gonzalo and the movement. She's put together a list, with links, to many additional resources about the organization. The poster she's reproduced on this first page is quite authentic.
-February 12, 1998
