| Sumario: | Yet the achievement of these two interrelated intellectual goals has necessitated training (in the UCLA Department of Information Studies) in the increasingly technical fields of information studies and the digital humanities, which has helped me understand archives from an archivist's perspective rather than solely from that of the historian and archive user. In this forum, I share two research anecdotes from Mexico - each originating from my current project, I Archiving the Obscene: Censorship, Erotica, and Pornography in Latin America, 1700-1955 i - that gesture to the growing diversity of methodological and theoretical tools through which to conceptualize and write histories of sexuality in Latin America and from an interdisciplinary Latin Americanist perspective. While some Latin Americanist historians of sexuality aspire to more objectivist visions of historical writing, I am constantly inspired by archivist Eric Ketelaar, who has emphatically proclaimed: "Let anything be "as archive" and let everyone be an archivist. For it was the Spanish-language histories of sexuality that emerged from Mexico's Seminario de Historia de las Mentalidades in the 1980s that first inspired me to become a historian.[8] It was also Mexico's complex archival terrain - among national, state, municipal, judicial, and notarial archives - that first led me to "sins against nature" as a viable category of historical analysis.
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