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Medicine, Agriculture, Or Social Pathology? The Classification Of Materials On Coca In U.S. Libraries, Tina Gross
Medicine, Agriculture, Or Social Pathology? The Classification Of Materials On Coca In U.S. Libraries, Tina Gross
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Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, a professor of Sociology at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in La Paz, came to the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures as a visiting professor in January and February of 2007. During her visit, I assisted her in conducting research on the subject classification of works on coca in North American libraries for a chapter in her forthcoming book.
Rivera has a longstanding interest in the subject treatment of library materials from Bolivia and in how classification practices and trends have changed over time. Her 2003 book Las fronteras de la coca: …