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Costumbres: A Digital Archive of Latino Spanish in the Los Angeles Area
SPC.2023.017
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Contributing Institution:
California State University Dominguez Hills, Gerth Archives and Special Collections
Title: Costumbres: A Digital Archive of Latino Spanish in the Los Angeles
Creator:
Dominguez, Miguel
Identifier/Call Number: SPC.2023.017
Physical Description:
2.74 Gigabytes
(one PDF document; 523 pages)
Date: June 22, 2023
Language of Material:
English
, Spanish; Castilian
.
There are no access restrictions on this collection.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director of Archives
and Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical
materials and not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
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Costumbres is a living archive or an on-going ethnography of contemporary language practices, usages, or costumes of a major U.S. ethnic
group. Its mission is to collect, organize, and make public a continual account of vernacular Spanish in the Los Angeles area
and neighboring communities.
Costumbres is only available as a digital item. For access to
Costumbres please contact the Gerth Archives and Special Collections.
Since approximately 1980, the data in this document was and continues to be collected by the director- Dr. Miguel Dominguez
Professor Emeritus of Spanish, Department of Modern Languages CSU Dominguez Hills, as a participant observer and an investigator
in the field, as well as university Spanish instructor hearing (and overhearing) conversations or chats in a variety of contexts,
and to a lesser extent, assessing the Spanish of latino students in course work and activities.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Ethnography
Linguistics
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Latinx
Latino Spanish
Latinx community