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Jake Cohen wrote a new post on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 3 months ago

-Today we looked at the question of how natural history texts can be looked at as colonial knowledge. First we talked about the Columbian exchange and how it was consequentially harsher on the new world than the […]
Abby commented on the post, Revised Research, on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 3 months ago

I think comparing the views of both parties is very important when researching topics in Latin America since there is often a gap in sources from the indigenous peoples. Comparing rituals and events would also be […]
Abby commented on the post, Revised Research Idea, on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 3 months ago

This is an awesome research idea and seems like it will be fun to research! I would do some background work into what music was like before and after colonialism. Looking at specific instruments could also be […]
Abby commented on the post, Revised Research Idea, on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 3 months ago

I really like this research topic and I think it has important long term effects in modern day Hispanola. I spent a week in high school at a school in the Dominican Republic and one of the things they mentioned to […]
Aleks Kowalchuk commented on the post, , on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 3 months ago
Jaz wrote a new post on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 3 months ago
ibuckley wrote a new post on the site The Nature of Nature 2019 6 years, 3 months ago

Flowers for Fall I am always so impressed with the grounds crew at this school, and the work that they put into making our campus beautiful. For the past week or […]
Matt commented on the post, Revised Research Idea, on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 3 months ago

Sounds awesome. One thing you could maybe look at is if their music adapted at all when Old World colonists began to settle in the Americas. On the flip side, you could see if New World music had an impact in the Old World.
Luca Napora commented on the post, Revised Research Idea, on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 3 months ago

This seems like a really interesting idea, and I think the implications of this are really improtant. I feel like primary source documents that illustrate the European’s perspective will be really crucial, but I […]
Luca Napora commented on the post, Research, on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 3 months ago

That sounds really interesting. I think that it could also be really cool to study how the natives felt about helping the Spanis and Portuguese after the true effects of the Europeans became clear, and whether or […]
Luca Napora commented on the post, Narrowed Research Idea, on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 3 months ago

This sounds like a really interesting research idea. I think it will be especially interesting to focus on the effects of how Europeans ideas about food impacted the natives, because that aspect is traditionally […]
Miki R. commented on the post, Research Project Sources, on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 3 months ago

This is an awesome idea! Last semester, I got to spend a week and a half with a Mapuche community in a small town called Curarrehue in Chile during a study abroad program and learned so much about their struggle […]
Matt commented on the post, Revised Research Idea, on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 3 months ago

I think one thing you could possibly do is see if mate was not only drank in the New World, but if it ever made its way back to Europe. We hear of many different New World foods, especially crops such as maize, […]
Miki R. commented on the post, Revised Research Idea, on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 3 months ago

This is awesome! I studied abroad in Chile for a bit last semester, and maté was also a huge thing there because of the influence of a lot of the communities in the Andes. From what I saw, maté was generally d […]
Jake Cohen commented on the post, Sources and Ideas, on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 3 months ago

Shoutout geography on this one! I think it would be cool to see if you can find multiple maps from indigenous perspectives seeing what scale of the land they had around them. Cool to compare how these would look […]
Miki R. commented on the post, Revised Research Idea, on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 3 months ago

This is a great question– I also think it’ll be interesting to see how the European colonizers’ conceptions of race differed and had a long-term impact on racial dynamics within Colonial Hispaniola. I think it […]
Jake Cohen commented on the post, Revised Research Idea, on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 3 months ago

An under represented topic I believe. Very cool idea. I think it would be cool to try to see how much music pre-contact has survived today. As well as seeing the music scene in Latin America today and whether it […]
Jake Cohen commented on the post, Revised Research, on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 3 months ago

For this topic I think it would be cool to examine Dona Marina. Was someone such as herself, who aided the Europeans, forced to abide by such gender norms? Or was she more exempt from conforming due to willingness […]
Zachary Milko commented on the post, Revised Research Idea, on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 3 months ago

This topic will be very interesting as I feel like it is not very well thought about or looked into by any average historian learning about Latin America. I am very intrigued by this topic and hope to hear more about it soon!
Zachary Milko commented on the post, Sources and Ideas, on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 3 months ago

I feel as though understanding the role of cartography in this time period would really open many peoples eyes to so much during this time of cultural development. I feel as though this will be very interesting to […]
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