The Politics of Memory : Native Historical Interpretation in the Colombian Andes /

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How does a culture in which writing is not a prominent feature create historical tradition? In The Politics of Memory, Joanne Rappaport answers this question by tracing the past three centuries of the intellectual history of the Nasa--a community in the Colombian Andes. Focusing on the Nasa historia...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rappaport, Joanne (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 1998.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Memória cultural.
Tradição oral.
Índios > Andes.
Geschichtsdenken
Kosmologie
Geschichtsbild
Paez Indians > Historiography.
Paez Indians.
HISTORY > Native American.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
Páez (Indiens) > Historiographie.
Páez (Indiens) > Histoire.
Paez Indians > History.
Páez.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction: interpreting the past
  • Part 1 The creation of a chiefly ideology: Nasa historical thought under Spanish rule
  • 2. The rise of the colonial Cacique
  • 3. The birth of the myth: Don Juan Tama y Calambás
  • Part 2 From colony to republic: Cacique and Caudillo
  • 4. The chiefdom transformed: The Nineteenth-century Nasa
  • From sharecropper to Caudillo: Manuel Quintín Lame
  • Part 3 Contemporary historical voices
  • 6. The Cacique reborn: The Twentieth-century Nasa
  • Julio Ninquinás, a contemporary Nasa historian
  • Conclusion: Narrative and image in a textual community.

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