Fer­nando Acosta-Rodriguez,
From “Ñ”

Dear PLAS friends,

I’d like to share with you the link to an arti­cle that appeared this week­end in Ñ, the cul­tural sup­ple­ment of the Argen­tine daily Clarín.  It’s titled “La memo­ria de la lit­er­atura lati­noamer­i­cana” and high­lights Fire­stone Library’s exten­sive col­lec­tion of archives, cor­re­spon­dence, man­u­scripts and other mate­ri­als by Latin Amer­i­can and Caribbean authors and intellectuals. 

Also in the issue is a text by Rubén Gallo about Severo Sar­duy in Prince­ton, enti­tled “Un cubano en Prince­ton.”

For addi­tional infor­ma­tion about Latin Amer­i­can spe­cial col­lec­tions at Prince­ton, please visit http://libguides.princeton.edu/latinam_iberian_primary.

Fer­nando Acosta Rodriguez
Librar­ian for Latin Amer­i­can Stud­ies, Fire­stone Library
Prince­ton University

João Biehl, the Susan Dod Brown Pro­fes­sor of Anthro­pol­ogy, has been selected to receive the 2013 J.I. Sta­ley Prize for his book “Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Aban­don­ment.” The prize is given annu­ally by the School for Advanced Research for a book that rep­re­sents the best writ­ing and schol­ar­ship in anthro­pol­ogy. The Sta­ley Prize panel called the work “a land­mark of anthro­po­log­i­cal writ­ing, human­iz­ing in the most lit­eral sense.” Biehl, who also co-directs the Pro­gram in Global Health and Health Pol­icy, will receive the prize, which is accom­pa­nied by a $10,000 award, on Nov. 21 at the meet­ings of Amer­i­can Anthro­po­log­i­cal Asso­ci­a­tion in Chicago.
(From http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/18/21Q32/index.xml?section=people)

Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity grad­u­ate stu­dents Angéle Christin, Laura Gan­dolfi, George Young and Jiay­ing Zhao have been named co-winners of the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fel­low­ship, Princeton’s top honor for grad­u­ate stu­dents. The fel­low­ships sup­port the final year of study at Prince­ton and are awarded to stu­dents whose work has exhib­ited the high­est schol­arly excellence. 

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On the eve of Dec. 20, 2012, while the inter­na­tional news media were report­ing on the alleged “end of the world” pre­dicted by the ancient Maya cal­en­dar, six Prince­ton stu­dents and their pro­fes­sor were in Guatemala to expe­ri­ence the phe­nom­e­non firsthand.

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De Mauri­cio Arti­nano y Ubaldo Escalante

Durante nues­tra breve estadía en Costa Rica, logramos reunirnos y con­ver­sar con más de 60–65 per­sonas rela­cionadas con el par­que en el bar­rio de León XIII donde esper­amos desar­rol­lar nues­tra prop­uesta de inter­ven­ción urbana.  Entre las per­sonas con las que nos reuni­mos esta­ban la Viceal­caldesa de la Munic­i­pal­i­dad de Tibás, el Coman­dante de la Fuerza Pública de León XIII, el Padre Raschid de la Igle­sia Católica de León XIII, per­sonal de la Munic­i­pal­i­dad de Tibás, per­sonal del Hogar de Adul­tos May­ores de León XIII, per­sonal de la Cruz Roja de León XIII, niños(as), jóvenes, adul­tos may­ores…  De estas con­ver­sa­ciones logramos enten­der de primera mano la real­i­dad de los veci­nos y veci­nas del par­que y con base a estos insumos vamos a desar­rol­lar nues­tra prop­uesta.  La inten­ción nues­tra es además de una prop­uesta tra­ba­jar con todos estos actores, así como con el Pro­fe­sor Maz­zanti, para lograr hac­erla real­i­dad.

Prof. Guimarães, a lead­ing soci­ol­o­gist on race in Brazil and a prin­ci­pal inves­ti­ga­tor of Princeton’s Global Net­work on Race and Cit­i­zen­ship, pub­lished an arti­cle in Folha de S.Paulo about Pres­i­dent Dilma Rousseff’s new affir­ma­tive action pol­icy. Read the arti­cle in Portuguese.

The per­sonal and lit­er­ary papers of the Nicaraguan-born Sal­vado­ran writer Clari­bel Ale­gría were recently added to the Man­u­scripts Divi­sion’s exten­sive col­lec­tion of archives, cor­re­spon­dence, and man­u­scripts by 20th cen­tury Latin Amer­i­can and Caribbean authors and intellectuals.

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Pedro Meira Monteiro’s arti­cle in Folha de S.Paulo is a brief reflec­tion on the role muse­ums play in our daily lives, based on the Museo del Barrio’s exhi­bi­tion “Nueva York (1613–1945)”. It was pub­lished on Jan 4, 2011 (Folha de S.Paulo, Ilustrada, p.E4).

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