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The Colombia reader : history, culture, politics /

Containing over one hundred selections ranging from songs, artwork, and poetry, to journalism, oral history, and scholarship-most published in English for the first time-The Colombia Reader presents a rich and multi-layered account of this complex nation from the colonial era to the present.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Farnsworth-Alvear, Ann, 1965- (Editor ), Palacios, Marco (Editor ), Gómez López, Ana María, 1981- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, [2017]
Colección:Latin America readers.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Human Geography
  • Ahpikondiá / Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
  • Photographs of Indigenous People / Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
  • "One after the Other, They All Fell Under Your Majesty's Rule" : Lands Loyal to the Bogotá Become New Granada / Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada and Anonymous
  • A City in the African Diaspora / Anonymous and Álvaro José Arroyo
  • Crossing to Nationhood across a Cabuya Bridge in the Eastern Andes / Manuel Ancízar
  • A Gaping Mouth Swallowing Men / José Eustasio Rivera.
  • Frontier "Incidents" Trouble Bogotá / Jane M. Rausch and Alfredo Villamil Fajardo
  • Crab Antics on San Andrés and Providencia / Peter Wilson
  • Pacific Coast Communities and Law 70 of 1993 / Senate of the Republic of Colombia
  • Toward a History of Colombian Musics / Egberto Bermúdez
  • Colombian Soccer Is Transformed : The Selección Nacional in the 1990s / Andrés Dávila Ladrón de Guevara
  • Colombian Queens / Jaime Manrique
  • II. Religious Pluralities : Faith, Intolerance, Politics, and Accommodation
  • Idolators and Encomenderos / Fray Jerónimo de San Miguel.
  • Miracles Made Possible by African Interpreters / Anna María Splendiani and Tulio Aristizábal / SJ
  • My Soul, Impoverished and Unclothed ... / Francisca Josefa Castillo
  • A King of Cups / Gregorio José Rodríguez Carrillo, Bishop of Cartagena
  • Courting Papal Anger : The "Scandal" of Mortmain Property / Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera
  • Liberalism and Sin / Anonymous / Rafael Uribe Uribe / and Andrés Botero
  • Sabina, Bring Some Candles to Light to the Virgin / Albalucía Ángel
  • Processions and Festivities / Nereo López, Richard Cross, and Nina Sánchez de Friedemann.
  • We Were Not Able to Say That We Were Jewish / Paul Hané
  • As a Colombian, as a Sociologist, as a Christian, and as a Priest, I Am a Revolutionary / Camilo Torres Restrepo
  • Who Stole the Chalice from Badillo's Church? / Rafael Escalona
  • Life Is a Birimbí / Rodrigo Parra Sandoval
  • Our Lady of the Assassins / Fernando Vallejo
  • One Woman's Path to Pentecostal Conversion / Elizabeth Brusco
  • La Ombligada / Sergio Antonio Mosquera
  • A Witness to Impunity / Javier Giraldo, SJ
  • III. City and Country.
  • Emptying the "Storehouse" of Indian Labor and Goods / Anonymous : "Encomiendas, encomenderos e indígenas tributarios del Nuevo Reino de Granada
  • "To Santafé! To Santafé! / Anonymous : Capitulaciones de Zipaquirá
  • Killing a Jaguar / Jorge Isaacs
  • The Time of the Slaves Is Over / Candelario Obeso
  • A Landowner's Rules / Ángel María Caballero
  • Muleteers on the Road / Beatríz Helena Robledo
  • Campesino Life in the Boyacá Highlands / Orlando Fals Borda
  • One Lowland Town Becomes a World : Gabriel García Márquez Returning to Aracataca / Gabriel García Márquez
  • The Bricklayers : 1968 on Film / Jorge Rufinelli.
  • Switchblades in the City / Arturo Álape
  • Desplazado : "Now I Am Here as an Outcast" / Anonymous
  • An Agrarian Counterreform / Luis Bernardo Flórez Enciso
  • IV. Lived Inequalities / Rules Are Issued for Different Populations : Indians, Blacks, Non-Christians / Anonymous : Libro de acuerdos de la Audiencia Real del Nuevo Reino de Granada
  • The Marqués and Marquesa of San Jorge / Joaquín Gutiérrez
  • An Indian Nobleman Petitions His King / Diego de Torres
  • A Captured Maroon Faces His Interrogators / Francisco Angola
  • Carrasquilla's Characters : La Negra Narcisa, el Amito Martín, and Doña Bárbara / Tomás Carrasquilla
  • Carried through the Streets of Bogotá : Grandmother's Sedan Chair / Eduardo Caballero Calderón
  • The Street-Car Bogotá of New Social Groups : Clerks, Switchboard Operators, Pharmacists / Augusto Morales Pino
  • It Is a Norm among Us to Believe That a Woman Cannot Act on Her Own Criteria / María Cano
  • I Energetically Protest in Defense of Truth and Justice / Manuel Quintín Lame
  • Bringing Presents from Abroad / Manuel Zapata Olivella
  • Cleaning for Other People / Anna Rubbo and Michael Taussig
  • A Feminist Writer Sketches the Interior Life and Death of an Upper-Class Woman / Marvel Moreno
  • Barranquilla's First Gay Carnival Queen / Gloria Triana
  • Romance Tourism / Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel
  • They Are Using Me as Cannon Fodder / Flaco Flow and Melanina
  • V. Violence
  • Captains and Criminals / Juan Rodríguez Freile
  • War to the Death / Simón Bolívar
  • A Girl's View of War in the Capital / Soledad Acosta de Samper
  • Let This Be Our Last War / José María Quijano Wallis
  • The "Silent Demonstration" of February 7, 1948 / Jorge Eliécer Gaitán
  • Dead Bodies Appear on the Streets / Gustavo Álvarez Gardeazábal
  • Cruelty Acted as a Stimulant / José Gutiérrez Rodríguez
  • Two Views of the National Front / Álvaro Gómez Hurtado and Ofelia Uribe de Acosta
  • Starting Points for the FARC and the ELN / Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia and Ejército de Liberación Nacional
  • Where Is Omaira Montoya? / María Tila Uribe and Francisco J. Trujillo
  • We Prefer a Grave in Colombia to a Cell in the United States / Los Extraditables
  • A Medic's Life within a Cocaine-Fueled Paramilitary Organization / Diego Viáfara Salinas
  • Carlos Castaño "Confesses" / Mauricio Arangurén Molina
  • The Song of the Flies / María Mercedes Carranza
  • Kidnapped / Luis Mendieta Ovalle
  • Parapolitics / Claudia López and Óscar Sevillano
  • Turning Points in the Colombian Conflict, 1960s--1990s / Joseph Fabry, James Mollison, Robert Romero Ospina, Daniel Jiménez, El Espectador and Ricardo Mazalán [Untitled]
  • VI. Change and Continuity in the Colombian Economy / El Dorado / Fray Pedro Simón
  • The Conquest Yields Other Treasures : Potatoes, Yucca, Corn / Juan de Castellanos and Galeotto Cei
  • Cauca's Slave Economy / Germán Colmenares
  • A Jesuit Writes to the King : Profits from Coca Leaf Could Surpass Tea / Antonio Julián
  • Bogotá's Market, ca.
  • 1850 / Agustín Codazzi
  • A Banker Invites Other Bankers to Make Money in Colombia / Phanor James Eder
  • How Many People Were Massacred in 1928? / Telegrams, American Legation in Bogotá and Consul in Santa Marta
  • Strikers or Revolutionaries? : Strikers and Revolutionaries? / Mauricio Archila Neira and Raúl Eduardo Mahecha
  • Coffee and "Social Equilibrium" / Federación Nacional de Cafeteros
  • Two Views of a Foreign Mining Enclave : The Chocó Pacífico / Patrick O'Neill and Aquiles Escalante
  • Carlos Ardila Lülle : "How I Got Rich" / Patricia Lara Salive and Jesús Ortíz Nieves
  • The Arrow / David Sánchez Juliao
  • A Portrait of Drug "Mules" in the 1990s / Alfredo Molano
  • Luciano Romero : One among Thousands of Unionists Murdered in Colombia / European Center for Constitutional, Human Rights and Peter Brabeck-Letmathe
  • VII. Transnational Colombia / A Creole Reads the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen / Antonio Nariño
  • Humboldt's Diary, May 1801 / Alexander von Humboldt
  • The Most Practical, Because the Most Brutal / José Asunción Silva
  • Grandfather Arrives from Bremen / Pedro Gómez Valderrama
  • We Were Called "Turks" / Elías Saer Kayata
  • Two Presidents' Views : "I Took the Isthmus" and "I Was Dispossessed, Insulted, and Dishonored to No End" / Theodore Roosevelt and Marco Fidel Suárez
  • Facing the Yankee Enemy / José María Vargas Vila
  • Bogotá's Art Scene in 1957 : "There Is No Room for Any of the Old Servilism" / Marta Traba
  • 1969 : The GAO Evaluates Money Spent in Colombia / US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
  • Who Was Where during the Mapiripán Massacre? / Ignacio Gómez Gómez
  • A Minga of Voluntary Eradication / Asociación Popular de Negros Unidos del Rio Yurumanguí (APONURY)
  • Latin American Ex-Presidents Push to Reorient the War on Drugs / Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy
  • A New Export Product : Yo soy Betty, la fea Goes Global / Yeidy Rivero
  • Today We Understand and Can Say No / Lorenzo Muelas
  • Toward a Stable and Enduring Peace / Delegados del Gobierno de la República de Colombia (Gobierno Nacional) and Delegados de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército del Pueblo.
  • Frontier "Incidents" Trouble Bogotá, Jane M. Rausch and Alfredo Villamil FajardoCrab Antics on San Andrés and Providencia, Peter Wilson; Pacific Coast Communities and Law 70 of 1993, Senate of the Republic of Colombia; Toward a History of Colombian Musics, Egberto Bermúdez; Colombian Soccer Is Transformed: The Selección Nacional in the 1990s, Andrés Dávila Ladrón de Guevara; Colombian Queens, Jaime Manrique; II. Religious Pluralities: Faith, Intolerance, Politics, and Accommodation; Idolators and Encomenderos, Fray Jerónimo de San Miguel.
  • Miracles Made Possible by African Interpreters, Anna María Splendiani and Tulio Aristizábal, SJMy Soul, Impoverished and Unclothed ..., Francisca Josefa Castillo; A King of Cups, Gregorio José Rodríguez Carrillo, Bishop of Cartagena; Courting Papal Anger: The "Scandal" of Mortmain Property, Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera; Liberalism and Sin, Anonymous, Rafael Uribe Uribe, and Andrés Botero; Sabina, Bring Some Candles to Light to the Virgin, Albalucía Ángel; Processions and Festivities, Nereo López, Richard Cross, and Nina Sánchez de Friedemann.
  • We Were Not Able to Say That We Were Jewish, Paul HanéAs a Colombian, as a Sociologist, as a Christian, and as a Priest, I Am a Revolutionary, Camilo Torres Restrepo; Who Stole the Chalice from Badillo's Church?, Rafael Escalona; Life Is a Birimbí, Rodrigo Parra Sandoval; Our Lady of the Assassins, Fernando Vallejo; One Woman's Path to Pentecostal Conversion, Elizabeth Brusco; La Ombligada, Sergio Antonio Mosquera; A Witness to Impunity, Javier Giraldo, SJ; III. City and Country.
  • Emptying the "Storehouse" of Indian Labor and Goods, Anonymous: "Encomiendas, encomenderos e indígenas tributarios del Nuevo Reino de Granada"To Santafé! To Santafé!, Anonymous: Capitulaciones de Zipaquirá; Killing a Jaguar, Jorge Isaacs; The Time of the Slaves Is Over, Candelario Obeso; A Landowner's Rules, Ángel María Caballero; Muleteers on the Road, Beatríz Helena Robledo; Campesino Life in the Boyacá Highlands, Orlando Fals Borda; One Lowland Town Becomes a World: Gabriel García Márquez Returning to Aracataca, Gabriel García Márquez; The Bricklayers: 1968 on Film, Jorge Rufinelli.