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

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rappaport, Joanne (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 1998.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.