Online Subject Encyclopedias and Histories
- Country Studies: Area Handbook Series (Library of Congress)Fulltext versions of the most recent volumes, providing overviews of "historical setting, and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world."
- LUM Centro de Documentación e InvestigaciónResource center on Peru’s violent period 1980-2000
History and Society
Reference works make excellent starting points for research; they provide concise articles on key topics by scholars of the field, often accompanied by suggestions for further reading. Many of the sources listed below are print volumes shelved in Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks, on the first floor of Van Pelt.
Víctor Raul Haya de la Torre.
Historical Dictionary of Bolivia by Call Number: Van Pelt Reference F3304 .H4ISBN: 0810804514Publication Date: 1972-01-01
Historical Dictionary of Ecuador by Call Number: Van Pelt F3704 .B67 1982ISBN: 081080638XPublication Date: 1973-01-0110 volumes.
Historical Dictionary of Peru by Call Number: Van Pelt Reference F3404 .A39ISBN: 0810812355Publication Date: 1979-09-01
Diccionario biográfico boliviano by Call Number: Van Pelt Reference CT676 .A79 1984ISBN: 84837006510Publication Date: 1984-Six volumes.
Encyclopedia of the Incas by Call Number: Museum Library Reference F3429 .E495 2015ISBN: 9780759123625Publication Date: 2015"128 individual entries explore wide-ranging themes (religion, architecture, farming) and specific topics (ceremonial drinking cup, astronomy), interweaving ethnohistoric and archaeological research with nuanced interpretation. Each entry provides suggestions for further reading. Sidebars profiling chroniclers and researchers of Inca life--ranging from Jose de Acosta and Cristobal de Albornoz to Maria Rostworowski and R. Tom Zuidema--add depth and context for the cultural entries."
The Andes by Call Number: Van Pelt F2212 .W557 2009ISBN: 9780195386363Publication Date: 2009"Wilson explores the 5,000-mile... [mountain change and its countries]...through the insights of chroniclers, scientists, and modern-day novelists."
Guide to Documentary Sources for Andean Studies, 1530-1900 by Call Number: Van Pelt F3429 .G845 2008ISBN: 9780806199634Publication Date: 2008"This landmark three-volume reference work inventories the principal sources useful for the study of the region--particularly its Prehispanic and vice-regal cultures--covering relevant texts from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. With written contributions by 122 scholars from nineteen countries and amply illustrated with drawings, engravings, photographs, and maps, the Guide offers new perspectives on key works and reflects substantial changes in historical and cultural studies of the past fifty years."
Conflict in the Early Americas by Call Number: Museum Library E123 .C729 2013ISBN: 9781598847765Publication Date: 2013"This detailed study is the only reference work of its kind to address Spain's conquest of Central and South America, providing in-depth coverage of native and European ideologies, political motivations, and cultural practices of the region."
Literature, Culture and Film
Cuenca
Past Present Peru by Call Number: Museum LibraryISBN: 9783869301037Publication Date: 2010A multimedia collection of work by John Cohen on Peru that includes photographs, textiles, music, films, etc.
Más allá de las fronteras : representaciones literarias del mundo andino-peruano-boliviano by Call Number: Van Pelt Library PQ8355 .M37 2015ISBN: 9786070269011Publication Date: 2015- Historia de la literatura peruana byCall Number: Van Pelt Library PQ8435 .H836 2003Publication Date: 2003three volumes.
Historia de la literatura peruana by Call Number: Van Pelt Reference PN849.S6 D54 1993ISBN: 9972236129Publication Date: 2006
Diccionario general de las letras peruanas: historia de la literatura peruana by Call Number: Van Pelt Reference PQ8327 .T676 2004ISBN: 9972340872Publication Date: 2004
Enciclopedia Gesta de autores de la literatura boliviana by Call Number: Van Pelt Library PQ7804 .B58 2005ISBN: 9990563624Publication Date: 2005
Tradición oral peruana: literaturas ancestrales y populares by Call Number: Van Pelt Library GR133.P4 B35 2006ISBN: 9972427439Publication Date: 2006
Diccionario del cine iberoamericano: España, Portugal y América by Call Number: Van Pelt PN1993.45 .D528 2011ISBN: 9788480488211Publication Date: 20118 volumes.
Grandes directores del cine boliviano: conversaciones con José A. Murillo del CastilloCall Number: Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.B5 M87 2015ISBN: 9789997481863Publication Date: 2015
100 años de cine en el Perú: una historia crítica by Call Number: Van Pelt PN1993.5 P4 B44 1995ISBN: 848935846XPublication Date: 1995
Dioses y hombres de Huarochirí by Call Number: F3429.3.R3 A82 2009ISBN: 9789972999567Publication Date: 2009
Anthropology
Seres sobrenaturales y mágicos de Bolivia by Call Number: Van Pelt Library GR133.B5 C37 2011Publication Date: 2011
Diccionario del folklore ecuatoriano by Call Number: Van Pelt Library GR133.E3 C372 2001Publication Date: 2001
Un mundo mágico-mítico en la mitad del mundo: folklore ecuatoriano by Call Number: Van Pelt Library GR133.E3 G82Publication Date: 1972
Handbook of Inca Mythology by Call Number: Museum Library Reference F3429 .S77 2004ISBN: 1576073548Publication Date: 2004"...places all key mythological tales and historical developments in chronological order...A-Z dictionary section gives entries for key deities, creatures, characters, rituals, sacred objects, running themes, and beliefs in Inca mythology, as well as important cultural and historical terms, people, and places."
The Indians of Central and South America by Call Number: Museum Library F1434 .O45 1991ISBN: 0313263876Publication Date: 1991"Historical as well as contemporary descriptions of approximately 500 existing tribes or groups of people are provided along with several bibliographic citations at the conclusion of each entry.... For the vast majority of his entries, James S. Olson draws material from the Smithsonian Institution's seven-volume Handbook of South American Indians as well as other classic resources of a broad, general nature. "
