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ELDP

Revisiting the shared sign language of Providence Island

The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide to for the linguistic documentation of endangered language and knowledge. Grantees create mult…

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Documentation of Cora in San Juan Corapan

The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide to for the linguistic documentation of endangered language and knowledge. Grantees create mult…

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Documentation and description of Urubú-Ka'apor Sign Language

The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide to for the linguistic documentation of endangered language and knowledge. Grantees create mult…

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Expanding the Documentation and Description of Cahuilla

The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide to for the linguistic documentation of endangered language and knowledge. Grantees create mult…

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The Ricardo Montejano Collection: Social movements and Mexican rural and native cultures

From 1970 to the present, Ricardo Montejano collected original field and studio recordings of the voices of various populations in Mexico. The collection illuminates a history…

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Saving 16th Century Churches in the Sondondo Valley

Located in Peru's Sondondo Valley are twelve 16th century churches, which were damaged during the civil war in the 1980s-90s. The project will complete a general diagnosis and…

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Our History is Our Force: Protecting Haitian National Patrimony

The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) has partnered with the Institut de Sauvegarde du Patrimoine National (ISPAN) to protect Haitian national patrimony. dLOC will digit…

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Labor, Livelihood, and Immigration in a Brazilian Plantation: the Archives of Ibicaba Farm (1890-1970)

As of the 1840s, plantations in southwestern Brazil started to experiment with European immigrant labor co-existing with the enslaved black population. The Ibicaba farm was a …

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El gran film del Uruguay - Colección Carlos Alonso / The Great Film of Uruguay - Carlos Alonso Collection

A compilation of nitrate film shot in a documentary style, known as the Alonso Collection, captures a rich visualization of Uruguay's historic countryside. The Universidad Cat…

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