Research Guides: Caribbean Women Healers: Caribbean Studies

Searching for Caribbean Studies Resources

Find readings in multiple discipines, including anthropology, history, literature, and music pertinent to the study of AfroIndigenous Caribbean healing traditions.

Keywords in Caribbean Studies:

Caribbean Healing Traditions
Afro-Caribbean Religions
Santeria (Lucumi, Ocha)
Vodoun
La 21 division
Palo Monte

Art Research Databases

Arte Público Hispanic historical collection. Series 1
Digital collection of historical content pertaining to U.S. Hispanic and Latino history, literature, political commentary, and culture. This collection accurately conveys the creative life of U.S. Latinos and Hispanics, shedding new light on the intellectual vigor and traditional values that have characterized them from the earliest moments of this country's history through contemporary times.
Arts & Humanities citation index (A&HCI)
Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the arts and humanities, covering 1975-present. Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the arts and humanities, covering 1975-present.
International Bibliography of Art
Indexing and abstracting of the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) from 2008 to the present.
Indexes journal articles, books,exhibition catalogs, conference procedings and dissertations and includes detailed abstracts . Topical coverage includes all traditional visual arts as well as new media, architectural history, museum studies and conservation, archaeology, classical studies and more. European art since late antiquity,American art since colonial times, and global art since 1945 are covered.

Image Databases

ARTstor
Search over one million digital images in the fields of the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences.
As of August 1, 2024 the former Artstor website is now completely incorporated into JSTOR. All content is now located there.
Global Plants
Provides more than two million images of plant type specimens from herbaria around the world.

Literature & Film Research Databases

MLA International Bibliography
Indexes critical materials for scholarship in literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Covers essay collections, dissertations, monographs and peer reviewed/scholarly journals.
Film & Television Literature Index
Indexes journal and magazine titles for film and television reviews, scholarly and critical analysis of cinema and television, and articles of popular interest about film and television.
Subject coverage includes film and television theory, preservation and restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.

Music Reference & Research Databases - General

Oxford Music Online
Provides access to Grove Music Online, Oxford Dictionary of Music, and Oxford Companion to Music. The authoritative resource for music research with over 52,000 articles written by nearly 9,000 scholars charting the diverse history and cultures of music around the globe.
Music Index
A comprehensive guide to music periodicals and literature featuring digitized content from 1970 to present. This database contains cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts of articles about music, musicians, and the music industry for more than 475 periodicals, as well as book reviews, obituaries, news, and selective coverage for more than 230 periodicals. .

Social Sciences Databases

Anthropology Plus
Scholarly articles & other sources in the fields of anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore and more.
HAPI
Selectively indexes journals in the social sciences and humanities, focussing on Central and South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the U.S.
PRISMA database
Provides full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin.
Social Science Premium Collection
Provides access to databases covering the international literature in the social sciences, including politics, sociology, social services, anthropology, criminology and education.
Red de bibliotecas virtuales de ciencias sociales de América Latina y el Caribe
The Red de Bibliotecas Virtuales CLACSO (Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales) offers free and open access to 80,000 texts in the social sciences from across Latin America.
Web of science core collection
Web of Science Core Collection (1965-present). Search the world’s leading scholarly journals, books, and proceedings in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities and navigate the full citation network.

Streaming Music & Sound Recordings Collections

Music Online: American Music
Database of songs and audio tracks, includes music that relates to almost every walk of American life, ethnic groups, political campaigns, Civil rights and more.
Music online: Contemporary world music
Streaming audio of music genres from every continent. Includes reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more
Music online: Popular music library
Popular music from around the world, including pop, country, Christian, electronic, hip-hop, metal, punk, new age, R&B, reggae, rock, soundtracks and many more.
Music online: Smithsonian global sound for libraries
Sound recordings offering music, speeches, and drama from more than 160 countries around the world.
Archives included in this database include the Aga Khan Trust for Culture- an archive of Islamic music and culture; the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology-an Indian-based resource; the International Library of African Music- touted as the greatest depository of African music in the world; and recordings from the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and the Smithsonian Folkways Archive, including the complete recordings published by the Folkways label. Research into history, geography, literature, cultural diversity, and other subject areas can be expanded with the addition of the music and sounds represented in this collection.

Streaming Video (Film) Collections

Docuseek2 (Streaming Videos)
Educational streaming access to content from Bullfrog Films, Collective Eye Films, Icarus Films (including The Fanlight Collection and dGenerate Films), Kartemquin Films, Scorpion TV,Sincerely Films, Terra Nova Films and Villon Films.
UO users may preview and license content online.
Ethnographic Video Online (Alexander Street Press)
Collection of classic and contemporary ethnographic documentaries.
Comprehensive resource for the study of human culture and behavior, covering every region of the world and features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more.
EVIA Digital Archive (Ethnographic Video for Instruction and Analysis)
Unedited ethnographic field video representing a wide variety of geographic areas; religious, ethnic, and cultural groups; music and dance traditions; music performances, rehearsals, and other music events; and ethnographic interviews.