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The Colombia Reader : History, Culture, Politics /

Containing over one hundred selections-most of them published in English for the first time-The Colombia Reader presents a rich and multilayered account of this complex nation from the colonial era to the present. The collection includes journalistic reports, songs, artwork, poetry, oral histories,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Gómez López, Ana María, 1981- (Editor ), Palacios, Marco (Editor ), Farnsworth-Alvear, Ann, 1965- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Duke University Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction ; I. Human geography. Ahpikondiá / Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
  • Photographs of indigenous people / Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
  • One after the other, they fell under your majesty's rule : lands loyal to the Bogotá become New Granada / Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada and anonymous
  • A city in the African diaspora / Anonymous and Álvaro Jose Arroyo
  • Crossing to nationhood across a Cabuya bridge in the Eastern Andes / Manuel Ancízar
  • A gaping mouth swallowing men / Jose Eustasio Rivera
  • Frontier "incidents" trouble Bogotá / Jane M. Rausch, Alfredo Villamil Fajardo
  • Crab antics on San Andres 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 / Andres 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 African interpreters / Anna María Splendiani, Tulio Aristizábal
  • My soul, impoverished and unclothed ... / Francisca Josefa Castillo
  • A king of cups / Gregorio Jose Rodríguez Carrillo, Bishop of Cartagena
  • Courting Papal anger : the "scandal" or Mortmain property / Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera
  • Liberalism and sin / Anonymous, Rafael Uribe Uribe, Andres Botero
  • Sabina, bring some candles and light to the Virgin / Albalucía Ángel
  • Professions and festivities / Nereo López, Richard Cross, Nina Sánchez de Friedemann
  • We were not able to say that we were Jewish / Paul Hane
  • 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
  • Witness to impunity / Javier Giraldo
  • III. City and country. Emptying the "storehouse" of Indian labor and goods / Anonymous
  • To Santafe! to Santafe! / Anonymous ; 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, interview with Jesús
  • Desplazado : "Now I am here as an outcast" / Anonymous
  • An agrarian counterrreform / Luis Bernardo Flórez Enciso
  • IV. Lived inequalities. Rules are issued for different populations : Indians, Blacks, Non-Christians / Anonymous
  • The Marques and Marquesa of San Jorge / Joaquín Gutierrez
  • An Indian nobleman petitions his king / Diego de Torres
  • A captured maroon faces his interrogators / Francisco Angola
  • Carrasquilla's characters : La Negra Narcissa, el Amito Martin, 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 women 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, Michael Taussig
  • A feminist writer sketches the interior life and death of an upper-class woman / Marvel Moreno
  • Barranquilla's first gay carnival queen : interview with Lino Fernando / 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 / Jose María Quijano Wallis
  • The "silent demonstration" of February 7, 1948 / Jorge Eliecer Gaitán
  • Dead bodies appear on the streets / Gustavo Álvarez Gardeazábal
  • Cruelty acted as a stimulant / Jose Gutierrez Rodríguez
  • Two views of the National Front / Álvaro Gómez Hurtado, Ofelia Uribe de Acosta
  • Starting points for the FARC and the ELN / Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, Ejercito de Liberación Nacional
  • Where is Omaira Montoya? / María Tila Uribe, 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 Aranguren Molina
  • The song of the flies / María Mercedes Carranza
  • Kidnapped / Major General Luis Mendieta Ovalle
  • Parapolitics / Claudia López, Óscar Sevillano
  • Turning points in the Colombia conflict, 1960s-1990s / Joseph Fabry, James Mollison, Roberto Romero Ospina, Daniel Jimenez, El Espectador, Ricardo Mazalán
  • VI. Change and continuity in the Colombian economy. El Dorado / Fray Pedro Simón
  • The conquest yields other treasures : potatoes, yucca, corn / Juan de Castellanos, 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, Consul in Santa Marta
  • Strikers or revolutionaries? Strikers and revolutionaries? / Mauricio Archila Neira. Raúl Eduardo Mahecha
  • Coffee and "social equilibrium" / Federación Nacional de Cafeteros
  • Two views of a foreign mining enclave : the Chocó Pacífico / Patrick O'Neill, Aquiles Escalante
  • Carlos Ardila Lülle : "How I got rich" / Particia Lara Salive, 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 and Human Rights, 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 / Jose Asunción Silva
  • Grandfather arrives from Bremen / Pedro Gómez Valderrama
  • We were called "Turks" / Elías Saer Kayata
  • Two presidents' views : "I took Isthmus" and "I was dispossessed, insulted, dishonored to no end" / Theodore Roosevelt, Marco Fidel Suárez
  • Facing the Yankee enemy / Jose 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 say no / Lorenzo Muelas
  • Toward a stable and enduring peace / Delegados del Gobierno de la República de Colombia (Gobierno Nacional), Delegados del las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejercito del Pueblo.