Whenever I’ve heard the question, what separates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom, responses inevitably cluster around some specific form of cognitive capacity: tool-making and using, abstract thought, that ability to transcend temporality, emotional experience, language, moral culpability,…
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And for the animal accomplice… Death!
Tagged with: bestiality, moral animals, sex crime, Spanish Law
Posted in Gender and Sexuality, Latin American History
Posted in Gender and Sexuality, Latin American History
word clouds of Quito jail visitas, 1749-1830
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything on this blog directly related to my own research on 18th- and 19th-century Quito. With help from a graduate research assistant, I’m finally getting around to transcribing more of the jail visitas…
Tagged with: quito, sex crime, wordle
Posted in Digital History, Latin American History, Research and Writing
Posted in Digital History, Latin American History, Research and Writing
another transcription setup
A few weeks ago I posted this screenshot of transcribing documents using DEVONthink’s sorter and Lightzone. I’ve been working the past week or so on “transcribing” some jail census material from the 1780s that doesn’t lend itself to the sorter, and…
Tagged with: devonthink, digital archive, mac apps for academics, sex crime
Posted in Apps for Research, Latin American History, Processes, Research and Writing, Uncategorized
Posted in Apps for Research, Latin American History, Processes, Research and Writing, Uncategorized
Chad Black
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