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The Tricontinental Archive
An open archive of the cultural and political histories of the continents of the global South: Africa, Asia, Latin America, together with the insular Pacific
The purpose of the Tricontinental Archive Project is to develop a major resource for those working on the cultural and political histories of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the insular Pacific, in any form. Researchers are encouraged to upload relevant and objective information that they may have acquired about specific material in western and especially non-western archives. In this way, the Tricontinental Archive will become at once a reference resource for the archives of Africa, Asia, and Latin America, as well as an archive in its own right of information about the cultures and histories of the global South. For a full description of the project, see http://www.tricontinentalarchive.org/html/the_project.html
What kind of information should be entered?
- Information about the whereabouts of libraries, museums and institutions that contain relevant archival material, together with as much detailed information as possible about the collection.
- Libraries and institutions without e-catalogues can upload information about their archives
- Libraries, museums and other institutions can upload information about any material under threat, to create a virtual archive of their collections
- Information about material in private collections
- Archival information about the history of anti-colonial and freedom struggles, independence movements, civil, indigenous and minority rights movements, language rights movements
- Archival information about the history of colonial institutions, organisations and practices; the history of anti-colonial and freedom organizations and practices
- Archival information about the history of slavery, indentured labor, peasant and slave revolts and other forms of subaltern resistance
- Archival information about the history of indigenous peoples and their cultures
- Archival information about and transcripts of material from oral cultures
- Archival information about the existence and whereabouts of related historical images, film, video, audio material
- Archival information about the history of buildings, of architecture, and of other historical sites
- Information about historical sites of memory
- Images or transcripts of ephemera, such as announcements, broadsheets, hand-outs, manifestos, pamphlets, posters
- Images or pdf files of copyright-free manuscripts, books, journals and newspapers. Complete books or issues of journals or newspapers should be uploaded to the Internet Archive at http://www.archive.org with a link placed on the relevant Tricontinental Archive page
- Archival information about artistic and literary movements
- For individual writers (cultural critics, historians, social and political activists as well as writers of literature): full bibliographical information with regard to published writing, book history, as well as archival information on manuscript and related materials and their whereabouts.
- Information about other archival or digital web projects and websites with information of interest to users of the Tricontinental Archive
Who may enter information?
- Anyone! The archive is open to all. Simply create a user-name and log in. NB Any irrelevant information, spam etc. will be deleted.
What languages can I use?
- In due course, it is intended that the Tricontinental Archive will be multilingual. During the initial pilot stage, the pages will be in English only.
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