User:Aravoir/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Witchcraft in Latin America
 * Article Evaluation:
 * This article was chosen due to its relationship with HIS303: Colonial Latin America to 1810 and the class's coverage of alternative belief systems pre-colonization and pre-Catholicism. This article was also chosen as its contents are not as detailed as they could be; there is also inaccurate information and missing necessary information regarding contextualization, duality of terms, and historical background. This needs to be expanded upon to include sociological, anthropological, historical, and cultural impacts, and address the issue in which the term "Brujería" is used in quite the uneducated and uncited manner.
 * Sources
 * Sources used in the original article are older and do not reflect the modern witchcraft boom within the past five years. In addition, the sources mainly stem from only two major authors with little diversity of other source authors.
 * My sources are as follows:
 * Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús. "Brujx: An Afro-Latinx Queer Gesture". Princeton University
 * Jalondra Davis. "Power and Vulnerability: Black Girl's Magic in Black Women's Science Fiction." MOSF Journal of Science Fiction 2.2 (2018). https://publish.lib.umd.edu/scifi/article/view/440/239 Irene Lara. “BRUJA POSITIONALITIES: Toward a Chicana/Latina Spiritual Activism.” Chicana/Latina Studies4(2):10–45. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23014464
 * My sources are as follows:
 * Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús. "Brujx: An Afro-Latinx Queer Gesture". Princeton University
 * Jalondra Davis. "Power and Vulnerability: Black Girl's Magic in Black Women's Science Fiction." MOSF Journal of Science Fiction 2.2 (2018). https://publish.lib.umd.edu/scifi/article/view/440/239 Irene Lara. “BRUJA POSITIONALITIES: Toward a Chicana/Latina Spiritual Activism.” Chicana/Latina Studies4(2):10–45. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23014464

Option 2

 * Mexica
 * Article Evaluation: This article is particularly thorough. However, the article could be better organized rather than putting the entire text underneath the 'History' section. Dividing the text into sections based on historical timelines and notable events such as "Origins", "Building of Tenochtitlan", "Formation of the Triple Alliance", "Aztec Empire", and so on.
 * Sources
 * Burkholder and Johnson, Chapter 1.
 * Mills and Taylor, Docs. 1, 2, 4, 5.
 * Arnold Bauer, “The Material Landscape of Pre-Columbian America.” In Goods, Power, History: Latin America’s Material Culture (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 15-45.
 * Mills and Taylor, Docs. 1, 2, 4, 5.
 * Arnold Bauer, “The Material Landscape of Pre-Columbian America.” In Goods, Power, History: Latin America’s Material Culture (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 15-45.

Option 3

 * Andean civilizations
 * Article Evaluation: This article is well developed, and is labeled a "Level 3 vital article" but it leaves out some major and minor details. For example, there is no mentioning of alpacas in the agricultural section, and many historians have said that alpacas were key to existence for Andean peoples. It also does not mention economic aspects of the civilizations, including the importance of cloth and coca for trading purposes and even as monetary payment. These economic aspects led to the success and development of their communities.
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 * Burkholder and Johnson, Chapter 1.
 * Mills and Taylor, Docs. 1, 2, 4, 5.
 * Arnold Bauer, “The Material Landscape of Pre-Columbian America.” In Goods, Power, History: Latin America’s Material Culture (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 15-45.
 * John V Murra, "Andean Societies." Annual Review of Anthropology 13 (1984): 119-41. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2155664.

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