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The Colombia reader : history, culture, politics
Title
The Colombia reader : history, culture, politics / Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, Marco Palacios, and Ana María Gómez López, editors.
ISBN
9780822362074 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0822362074 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780822362289 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822362287 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2017
Physical Description
xiv, 634 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Summary
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, government documents, and scholarship to illustrate the changing ways Colombians from all walks of life have made and understood their own history. Comprehensive in scope, it covers regional differences; religion, art, and culture; the urban/rural divide; patterns of racial, economic, and gender inequalities; the history of violence; and the transnational flows that have shaped the nation. "The Colombia Reader" expands readers' knowledge of Colombia beyond its reputation for violence, contrasting experiences of conflict with the stability and significance of cultural, intellectual, and economic life in this plural nation.
Other formats
Online version: Colombia reader Durham : Duke University Press, 2016
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 30, 2017
Series
The Latin America readers
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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 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.
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
My soul, impoverished and unclothed... / Francisca Josefa Castillo
A king of cups / Gregorio José Rodríguez Carrillo, Bishop of Cartagena
Courting Papal anger : the "scandal" or Mortmain property / Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera
Liberalism and sin / Anonymous, Rafael Uribe Uribe, and Andrés Botero
Sabina, bring some candles and light to the Virgin / Albalucía Ángel
Professions 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 women's path to Pentecostal conversion / Elizabeth Brusco
La ombligada / Sergio Antonio Mosquera
Witness to impunity / Javier Giraldo, SJ.
City and country. Emptying the "storehouse" of Indian labor and goods / Anonymous
To Santafé! to Santafé! / 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.
Lived inequalities. Rules are issued for different populations : Indians, Blacks, Non-Christians / Anonymous
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 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 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, interview with Lino Fernando
Romance tourism / Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel
They are using me as cannon fodder / Flaco Flow and Melanina.
Violence. Captains and criminals / Juan Rodríguez Freile
War to 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 / Major General Luis Mendieta Ovalle
Parapolitics / Claudia López and Óscar Sevillano
Turning points in the Colombia conflict, 1960s-1990s / Joseph Fabry, James Mollison, Roberto Romero Ospina, Daniel Jiménez, El Espectador, and Ricardo Mazalán.
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 Elder
How many people were massacred in 1928? / Telegrams, American Legation i nBogotá 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" / Particia 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 and Human Rights and Peter Brabeck-Letmathe.
Transnational Colombia. A Creole reads the declaration of the rights of man and the citizen / Antonio Nariño
Humboldt's diary, May 1801 / Alexander con 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 Isthmus" and "I was dispossessed, insulted, 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 de 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) and Delegados del las Fuerzas armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia
Ejército del Pueblo.
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