Humanities of Latin America
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Acolman (monastery of San Agustín Acolman)
admiratio
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African notes on African slaves in Latin America and Afro-Latin American history and humanities
Aguiar y Seijas, Fr. Francisco de (Jesuit priest in 17th century New Spain)
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Alarcón, Daniel Presentation in => 20th and 21st century literature notes On => Alarcón's graphic novel
Aleijadinho chronology and notes See also => Aleijadinho art images See also => Baroque Notes
Alturas de Machu Picchu (poem by Pablo Neruda)
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Alicia Alonso and the Ballet Nacional de Cuba; see: => Havana Page 16.
Amado, Jorge (Brazilian writer)
Amazon River (Rio Amazonas), Brazil
Amazon warrior (legendary tribe; brief mention of)
Anahuacalli (Diego Rivera's museum and mausoleum)
Antigua, Guatemala
Arequipa, Perú (Convento de Santa Catalina)
Argentina / la Argentina (see => Country Notes)
Army of the Three Guarantees (Ejército Trigarante; México)
Asturias, Miguel Ángel: two passages from El Señor Presidente
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Atl, Dr. (Gerardo Murillo Conrado)
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Avellaneda, Gertrudis Gómez de: biography / for her poem, see: => "Al partir" / for selected passages from Sab, see: => Sab
Aztecs (see also Mexica, Tenochca)
Aztlán (Latino culture and humanities in Southwest USA)
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Bahia (see also: Salvador da Bahia)
Ball game (Mesoamerica)
Baroque definition (Definición del barroco)
Baroque (and Neoclassical) Notes
Bartolomé de Las Casas (see also: Las Casas)
Bellas Artes, Palacio (Mexico City)
Bello, Andrés (Venezuelan writer)
Bernal Díaz del Castillo (see also: Díaz del Castillo)
Biassou, Jorge (Georges): Haiti, Dominican Republic, and La Florida
Blanes, Juan Manuel (Uruguayan painter)
Bolaño, Roberto: See 20th and 21st Century Latin American Literature
Bolivia
Bolívar, Simón (see also: Simón Bolívar), el Libertador (see also his poem: => "Chimborazo")
Borges, Jorge Luis
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Bosch, Juan: "La mujer [The Woman]"
Botero, Fernando (Colombian painter)
Brasília (capital of Brazil)
Brazil (see => Country Notes; Baroque (notes); Brazil Index
Brazilian Art (1880-1900)
Brazilian Art (20th century)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Bullfighting (la corrida de toros)
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Cabeza de Vaca, Álvar Núñez
Capoeira (Brazilian martial arts dance)
Calle Ocho, Little Havana, Miami, Florida
Cardenal, Ernesto in Twentieth-Century Literature Notes (see also: Ernesto Cardenal); see also Cardenal's poem-book: => "Quetzalcóatl"
Carnaval (in Rio de Janeiro)
Carpentier, Alejo (twentieth-century Cuban writer)
Casa Azul (Frida Kahlo's home and studio; now a museum)
Casa M.I.N.A (Guatemala City)
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Castro, Fidel
Catholicism: Notes
Catrina (la calavera Catrina), la
Cenote (Mesoamerican sacred well)
Chac-Mool (Mesoamerica)
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Champlain, Samuel (de) (Founder of New France)
Chapultepec Park, Mexico City; National History Museum; Niños Héroes; and more
Chichén Itzá (Yucatán, México)
Cholula, México (pyramid and city)
Colón, Cristóbal
Colombia
Columbus (see also: Colón)
Convento de Santa Catalina, Arequipa, Perú
Corbel arch (see also: Uxmal)
Cordero, Juan (Mexican painter)
Coronado, Francisco Vázquez de (see also: Vázquez de Coronado, Francisco)
Cortés, Hernán
Cosa, Juan de la (Mappa Mundi)
Costa, Lúcio (Brazilian urban designer)
Costa Rica
ctónico, lo (see also: lo ctónico) (e.g., => Opening Show #1)
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Coyoacán, Mexico
Cuba (Facts Page)
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Cuauhnáhuac, Museo de (Cuauhnáhuac Museum in Cuernavaca)
Cuba Beyond Havana (slide lecture index)
Cuernavaca, México
Cuicuilco (pre-Teotihuacan site)
Cummer Museum, Jacksonville, Florida (see also: Ponce de León)
Cupio
Cuzco (el Cuzco; Cusco; el Cusco)
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Darío, Rubén
De Bry, Théodor (or Theodorus): Flemish engraver of Jacques LeMoyne's works
Díaz del Castillo, Bernal
Diego, Juan
Diego Rivera (see also: Rivera, Diego; and Frida Kahlo)
Dolores Tosta de Santa Anna (Mrs. Santa Anna, Mexico)
Dominican Republic (see also: la República Dominicana)
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Ecuador
El Dorado (gold-covered Amazonian king, brief mention of the legend of...)
Enríquez de Rivera, Fr. Payo (Archibishop of Mexico and Viceroy of New Spain, 17th century)
Ernesto Cardenal in Twentieth-Centur Literature Notes (see also: Cardenal, Ernesto)
Estadio Azul (Blue Stadium, Mexico City)
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Fernández de Lizardi, José Joaquín (text from El periquillo sarniento)
Fernández de Lizardi, José Joaquín (biography)
Fernández de Santa Cruz, Fr. Manuel (Bishop of Puebla, New Spain, 17th century)
Fernández de Santa Cruz, Fr. Manuel (Bishop of Puebla): Letter by Sor Filotea de la Cruz to Sor Juana
Florida Index
Fort Caroline (Jacksonville, Florida)
Fort Matanzas, St. Augustine, Florida (see also: Matanzas Bay)
Fort Mose, St. Augustine, Florida
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Fountain of Youth, St. Augustine, Florida
Francisco Pizarro (see also: Pizarro, Francisco)
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Frida Kahlo (see also: Kahlo, Frida)
Frida Kahlo's home and museum: see also: Casa Azul)
Fuentes, Carlos (Carlos Fuentes); for Fuentes with García Márquez, see: => FIL.
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Galve, Conde de (Viceroy of New Spain, 17th century)
Galvez Suárez, Alberto (20th century Guatemalan muralist)
García Ferraz, Nereida (Contemporary Cuban-American artist)
García Márquez, Gabriel (Colombian writer)
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Gauvreau, Pierre (and Janine Carreau), French-Canadian modernist artists
Gómez de Avellaneda, Gertrudis: biography / for her poem, see: => "Al partir" / for selected passages from Sab, see: => Sab
Guadalupe, Virgin of (see also: la Virgen de Guadalupe)
Guadalupe Marín (Diego Rivera's first wife)
Guanajuato (city in México)
Guanajuato: Museo Iconográfico de Cervantes
Guatemala General Index
Gucumatz (see also: Quetzalcóatl and Kukulkán)
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Haiti
Havana (La Habana), Cuba
Heights of Machu Picchu (Alturas de Machu Picchu) by Pablo Neruda
Heredia, José María (Cuban Romantic poet); => “En el teocalli de Cholula
Hidalgo, Miguel (Fr. Miguel Hidalgo)
Honduras
Huitzilopochtli (Aztec war god); Coatlicue (earth mother goddess); Coyolxauhqui (Coatlicue's daughter and moon) in Aztec notes
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Humboldt, Alexander von
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Iguaçu Falls, Brazil/Argentina (as Cataratas do Iguaçu)
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
Inca notes (Inca empire; Inca art; Machu Picchu)
Independence precursors (18th century)
Isaacs, Jorge
Iturbide, Agustín (Agustín I, México)
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Izquierdo, María
Iztaccíhuatl
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Jacques LeMoyne (see also: LeMoyne, Jacques)
José Martí Index (see also: Martí, José and modernismo)
Juan Diego
Juan de la Cosa (Mappa Mundi)
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Kahlo, Frida
Kircher, Athanasius (see: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz)
Kodama, María (Borges' widow)
Krauze, Enrique (20th century-21st century Mexican essayist): see: => Krauze's essay
Kulkukán (see also: Quetzalcóatl and Gucumatz)
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La Habana, Cuba (see, also: Havana)
Laguna, Marqués de la (don Tomás de la Cerda, Viceroy of New Spain, 17th century)
Lam, Wifredo (20th century Cuban painter)
Las Casas, Bartolomé de (see painting of Las Casas: => Las Casas)
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Latinos in the United States
LeMoyne, Jacques (see also: Jacques LeMoyne)
Lima, Perú
Lingua
Lizardi, José Joaquín Fernández de
Lo ctónico (see also: ctónico, lo)
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Machu Picchu (Train, Urubamba River, Huayna Picchu, and the archeological site)
Malinalli (see also: Doña Marina and la Malinche)
Manaus, Brazil
Mancera, Marqués de (Viceroy of New Spain, 17th century)
Mann, Charles C, 1491: Amazon #3.
Marín, Guadalupe (Diego Rivera's first wife)
Marina, Doña
Marmol, José
Martí, José (Index)
Matanzas Bay (see also: Fort Matanzas)
Maya Index
Maya language(s)
Mérida (Yucatán, México)
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Menéndez de Avilés, Pedro
México: General Index
México City
México country notes
Mexican Muralism (see also: Diego Rivera)
Mexican Revolution humanities (1910 - 1950)
Miami, Florida / Little Havana / Calle Ocho
Miranda, Francisco de (liberator precursor, Venezuela)
Mochica culture (pre-Inca Andean culture)
Moctezuma
Modernismo (Modernism)
Monasterio de Santa Catalina, Arequipa, Perú
Montevideo, Uruguay
Montezuma (see also: Moctezuma)
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Montreal, Québec, Canada
Morelos, José María (José María Morelos)
Morejón, Nancy (Cuban poet)
Mose, Fort (Florida; 18th century)
Muralismo (Mexican Muralism; see also: Diego Rivera)
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Museo de Cuauhnáhuac (Diego Rivera's mural in Museum in Cuernavaca)
Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City
Music Notes for Latin American humanities
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Náhuatl (Mexica-Aztec language)
Negro, Rio (Rio Negro / Black River), Brazil
Neoclassicism (neoclasicismo); (see also: => Baroque and Neoclassical Notes)
Neruda, Pablo (biography); see also: => Twentieth-Century Notes and Alturas de Machu Picchu): button
Nezahuacóyotl (Náhuatl poet)
Nicaragua
Niemeyer, Oscar (Brazilian architect)
Nineteenth (19th) century humanities index including liberators, modernism, and Romanticism
Niños Héroes, Los (Boy Heroes of Mexico, Chapultepec Park, México City)
Núñez de Balboa
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O'Gorman, Juan: murals on UNAM's library (biblioteca); for other works in this textbook byh O'Gorman, see: => button
Olmec culture (la civilización olmeda; pre-Aztec culture of Mesoamerica)
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Orozco, José Clemente
Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil (home of Aleijadinho)
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Pablo Neruda; see also => : Twentieth-Century Notes, and Alturas de Machu Picchu: button
Padura Fuentes, Leonardo (contemporary Cuban novelist): Padura Index
Palacio de Bellas Artes (fine arts palace), Mexico City
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Palacio de Cortés (Museo de Cuauhnáhuac; Diego Rivera's mural in Palacio de Cortés, Cuernavaca)
Palacio Nacional, Mexico City
Panamá
Panoayán (Sor Juana's childhood hacienda)
Paso de Cortés (in Sierra Nevada, México)
Perú
Petén (Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala: Flores and Santa Elena)
Petrópolis, Brazil
Piñatas and Posadas (Mexican Christman custom)
Pizarro, Francisco (see also: Francisco Pizarro)
Plaza de las Tres Culturas (Plaza de Tlatelolco, Mexico City)
Plaza de toros México (bullring, Mexico City)
Ponce de León
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<= see also: Cummer Museum
Popocatépetl (volcano in México)
Popol Vuh Notes
... Outline of the Popol Vuh
... Popol Vuh Class Text
Portuguese (language of Brazil and other Portuguese-speaking regions)
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Potosí: the city and mine in Bolivia
Pre-Columbian Notes
Precursors to Latin American Independence
Puerto Rico
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Quechua (language of the Incas and modern Quechua people of Peru and surrounding areas)
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Québec Index
First series of virtual tour
Second series of virtual tour
Quetzalcóatl (see also: Kukulkán and Gucumatz)
Quimbaya culture (pre-Inca Colombia)
Quinceañera celebration
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Religio
Renaissance (renacimiento)
Renaissance (and 16th century) notes
República Dominicana, la (see also: Dominican Republic)
Rio de Janeiro
Rivera, Diego (see also: Diego Rivera; and Frida Kahlo)
Rivera, Diego mural: Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda / Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Park (1947-1948)
Rockefeller Center Battle (1932): Diego Rivera vs Nelson Rockefeller
Romañach, Leopoldo (19th century Cuban painter)
Romanticism
Rubén Darío (see also: Darío, Rubén and modernismo)
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Sacsayhuaman (pre-Inca archeological site near Cuzco)
Sahagún, Bernardino de (16th century Franciscan friar)
Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
San Agustín, La Florida (see also: St. Augustine)
San Agustín Acolman (see also: Acolman)
San Martín, José de (Argentinian Independence hero)
San Gregorio (National Polychrome Sculpture Museum, Valladolid, Spain)
San Jacinto (ex Dominican convent and contemporary Catholic parish church, Mexico City)
Santa Anna, Antonio López de (Gen. Santa Anna, Mexico)
Santa Catalina, Convento de (Arequipa, Perú)
Sigüenza y Góngora, Carlos (see paragraph included in: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz)
Simón Bolívar (see also: Bolívar, Simón)
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Siquieros, David Alfaro
Soccer
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Answer to Sor Filotea de la Cruz (.pdf file)
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Hieronymite Convent of Santa Paula, Mexico City
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz (breve versión española)
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Letter by Sor Filotea de la Cruz (to Sor Juana de la Cruz)
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Notes and chronology
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Sonnet #145 (.htm file)
Spanish (language of Spanish America and other Spanish-speaking regions)
St. Augustine, Florida (see also: San Agustín)
Syncretism (sincretismo)
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Tamayo, Rufino
Templo Mayor (huey teocalli; Great Temple of the Aztecs), Mexico City / Tenochtitlán
Templo Mayor Museum (Museo del Templo Mayor), Mexico City
Tenochtitlán (Aztec capital) and Region
Teotihuacan (Mesoamerican civilization site near Mexico City)
Tepoztlan (Aztec pyramid site near Cuernavaca, México)
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Tepeyac, México)
Terms list (key terms used in HUM 2461)
Tezcatlipoca (Aztec god of death and other things)
Tikal (Mayan archeological site in Guatemala)
Tlatelolco (Plaza de Tlatelolco; Plaza de las Tres Culturas)
Tlatelolco, Templo de Santiago de Tlatelolco (Colonial church)
Toltecs (toltecas)
Tordesillas, Treaty of (1494)
Toussaint Louverture Index; also, see: Toussaint Notes
Toussaint Notes
Train from Cuzco to Machu Picchu
Tula
Tupac Amaru (18th century)
Twentieth-Century and Twenty-First Century Index
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Ultraism (ultraismo)
Urubamba River, Perú, headwaters of the Amazon
Uruguay
Uxmal (Yucatán, México)
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Vanguardism (vanguardismo)
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Vargas Llosa, Mario (see: => information about in Notes on 20th century literature )
Vázquez de Coronado, Francisco (conquistador)
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Varela, Félix (19th century philosopher and political activist from Cuba and Florida) / button Varela's novel (excerpt): Jicoténcal
Velasco, José María (19th century Mexican painter)
Venezuela
Viceroyalties (virreinatos) of Latin America
Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre
Virgen de Guadalupe
Voladores (Totonac flying ritual)
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William Walker (see: Nicaragua)
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Xalapa, México
Xocimilco, México
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Yucatán, México
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Zacatecas, México
Zapata, Emiliano (general)
Zócalo, el (Plaza Mayor / Central Square in Mexico City)