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  • For those who come after
  • The anthropological narrative as dialogue
  • Life stories, biographies, and autobiographies
  • Recovering the subaltern vision
  • Reality, experience, and expression : the authorship of oral histories
  • Debates on technique in life stories
  • Identity and ethnic re-creation
  • Ethnicity as social relation
  • The limits of diversity and ethnic recognition
  • Juan Gregorio Palechor : between the community and the nation
  • Cauca, the Guachicono resguardo, and indigenous movements
  • Identity and safe haven
  • A politics of our own and the reinvention of identity
  • Where I come from : five generations of the Macizo colombiano and Guachicono
  • Recognizing the way of the world and observing the weather
  • Life on the resguardo
  • Our nervousness about school and what we were taught
  • The harshness of family life and the art of agriculture
  • When I was conscripted
  • Learning new things
  • Public life and political violence
  • During the violence, I was forced by necessity to work as a tinterillo
  • The formation of community action committees : the Liberal Revolutionary Movement and the National Front
  • Religion, money, and politics
  • Working with the MRL and the political parties
  • The management class of the Catholic religion
  • Looking for an organization : the Campesino Association and the Indigenous Organization
  • My work in the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (CRIC)
  • The struggles of CRIC and indigenous traditions
  • Politiqueros and their empty words
  • Why an organization of indigenous people?