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Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios Socioculturales del Deporte (ALESDE) This is the blog of Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios Socioculturales del Deporte (ALESDE) which aims to disseminate Latin American scientific production in different socio-cultural areas (historical, sociological, anthropological, political, philosophical, economic, ethnographic and other approaches) that investigate the sport, considering its expanded contemporary and polysemic senses. This item has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
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The Journal of the Latin American Socio-cultural Studies of Sport The Journal of the Latin American Socio-Cultural Studies of Sport (ALESDE) aims to disseminate Latin American scientific production in different socio-cultural areas (historical, sociological, anthropological, political, philosophical, economic, ethnographic and other approaches) that investigate the sport, considering its expanded contemporary and polysemic senses. This item has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
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The Puerto Rico Online Encyclopedia - Sports The Puerto Rico Online Encyclopedia is a free, online, educational project providing information both in Spanish and English that familiarizes both Puerto Ricans and other users from around the world with aspects of the society, history, and culture of Puerto Rico, as well as the Caribbean region (description from the website). Regarding sports, the Encyclopedia includes videos, images, maps, and information about several sports such as basketball, baseball, sailing, diving, and surf, for instance. The encyclopedia provides information about clubs, national and Caribbean competitions, relevant teams and athletes, both in Puerto Rican history and now. Several articles are available both in English and Spanish. This item has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
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Cuadernos del Mundial This website provides visual and writing material critically analyzing the 2018 FIFA World Cup considering its political, social, and cultural dimensions. The effort replicates a similar one produced for the previous World Cup in 2014, in Brazil. The site is published by the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, CLACSO), a very influential network of Latin American scholars and think tanks developing critical scholarship in and about a wide variety of Latin American issues. One of the CLACSO's working groups is "Sports, public policies, and society (Deporte, políticas públicas y sociedad) and their members feed this website. The material available includes a periodical about the FIFA World Cup, as well as videos, and audios. The material produced about the 2014 FIFA World Cup is also available. It has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
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CINEfoot This is the official website of CINEfoot -Festival de Cinema de Futebol that since 2010 has been exhibiting movies, documentaries, and short films exclusively focused on football not only produced in Brazil, but worldwide, portraying football idols and events from Brazil, such as Pelé and Nilton Santos, but also internationally recognized, such as Messi, Ronaldo, Forlan, Gascoigne, or Cruyff. The webpage provides information about all the festivals' edition since the first one, in 2010, including the titles and sinopsis of every film showed, every year. Most of the information is in Portuguese, but the sinopsis of each film is also available in English. CINEfoot also has a YouTube channel that includes trailers. It has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
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Olympic World Library The Olympic World Library is a library maintain and supported by the Olympic Studies Centre, part of the International Olympic Committee. The IOC Olympic Studies is the world source of reference for Olympic knowledge and this library is simultaneously a library catalogue, an information portal and a search engine for Olympic knowledge. In particular, the Center holds valuable collections, including the IOC’s historical archives that offers over a kilometer of documents retracing the history of the IOC and the Olympic Movement from 1894 to the present day. It also provides access to 30,000 publications and 450 journals. The website is available in French and English. It has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
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LA84 Sports Library and Digital Collection The LA84 Foundation maintains a traditional paper-based library as well as a growing digital library. Together, these collections cover all aspects of sports, with a particular emphasis on Olympic information. The LA84 Foundation was created with a share of the 1984 Olympic Games surplus and since 1985 has been supporting hundreds of non-profit youth sports organizations throughout Southern California annually, trains coaches, commissions research, convenes conferences and maintains the world’s premier Olympic and sports library collection. Although the interface is in English, the collection contains material originally published in other languages, such as French. The material is available in formats such as.pdf, .ps, .doc, .xls, .ppt, and .rtf. This resource has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
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La Vida Baseball "La Vida Baseball" is a multi-media website produced in association with the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Its purpose is to celebrate Latino baseball and it includes material such as articles, video-essays, photographs, and interviews. "La Vida Baseball" is supported and published by a team integrated by both sports scholars and media practitioners. The editor in chief is Adrian Burgos Jr., a Professor of History at the University of Illinois. "La Vida..." has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
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Biblioteca Digital de Chile - Deportes The Digital Library of Chile has digitized several periodicals from their sports collections. Sources include different newspapers and magazines covering different sports from the early 20th century.
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The H-Sport Archive Project: Latin American Collections This project from H-Sport compiles and annotates archival collections throughout the world relevant to the scholarly research about sports in Latin America and the Caribbean. While many sports museums and sports organizations are well-known to scholars in the field, the H-Sport Archive Project highlights sports collections held at non-sport archives. The collections highlighted on the website and updated by 2017 are originally published in English, Spanish, or Portugues. It has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library. The website "Archive Project: Latin American Collections" is open access. However, the museums, archives, libraries, or exhibitions the site highlights have their own access rights policies. Therefore, scholars interested in using the collections collected by the H-Sport should consult contact the archive directly regarding visiting the archive and any specific regulations pertaining to accessing the collections.