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If you're an experienced researcher or already familiar with the Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS), you might like to learn some more advanced tricks and tips for searching HLAS which are explored here.
As you may already have noticed, each HLAS subsection is assigned an alphanumeric code. The code corresponds to a discipline and geographic area or time period or genre. For example, philosophy of Mexico is hwd and geography of the Caribbean is snf2000. Consult the Tables of Contents to find the discipline (or subject) and country or time period that interests you and use the indicated code in a search. These codes will help you find publications from the 1960s to the present.
For a complete list of codes, visit Topic Codes.
The contents of the philosophy chapter from HLAS Volume 64 are below. Again, notice that the codes in this case correspond to different countries. You can use the codes in combination with specific publication dates to find works of Argentine philosophy published in the 1980s, for example. Or you can use the codes alone to find all the works on Argentine philosophy annotated in HLAS.
Volume 64 / HUMANITIES
PHILOSOPHY: LATIN AMERICAN THOUGHT
[Juan Carlos Torchia Estrada and Clara Alicia Jalif de Bertranou - Introductory Essay] General ........................................................hwb México .........................................................hwd América Central ................................................hwf Caribe Insular .................................................hwh Venezuela ......................................................hwj Colombia .......................................................hwk Ecuador ........................................................hwm Perú ...........................................................hwo Bolivia ........................................................hwq Chile ..........................................................hws Brasil .........................................................hwu Uruguay ........................................................hwx Argentina ......................................................hwy
When you browse HLAS by subject, you will mainly see topical terms and geographical place names, some names and titles, and cross-references. HLAS subjects are controlled by the HLAS Subject Term Glossary. In addition, many HLAS records for books include Library of Congress Subject Headings, with terms found in LC Subject Authorities. SUBJECT Browse searches in HLAS Web - both beginning with and contains - list all headings that appear in HLAS records - whether assigned by HLAS staff or by the Library of Congress.
