Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Ahpikondia -- Photographs of Indigenous People / Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff -- "One after the Other, They All Fell under Your Majesty's Rule": Lands Loyal to the Bogota Become New Granada / Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff -- City in the African Diaspora / Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada -- Crossing to Nationhood across a Cabuya Bridge in the Eastern Andes / Alvaro Jose Arroyo -- Gaping Mouth Swallowing Men / Manuel Ancizar -- Frontier "Incidents" Trouble Bogota / Jose Eustasio Rivera -- Crab Antics on San Andres and Providencia / Jane M. Rausch / Alfredo Villamil Fajardo -- Pacific Coast Communities and Law 70 of 1993 / Senate of the Republic of Colombia / Peter Wilson -- Toward a History of Colombian Musics / Peter Wilson -- Colombian Soccer Is Transformed: The Seleccion Nacional in the 1990s / Egberto Bermudez -- Colombian Queens / Andres Davila Ladron de Guevar -- Idolators and Encomenderos / Jaime Manrique -- Miracles Made Possible by African Interpreters / Fray Jeronimo de San Miguel -- My Soul, Impoverished and Unclothed / Anna Maria Splendiani / Tulio Aristizabal -- King of Cups / Francisca Josefa Castillo -- Courting Papal Anger: The "Scandal" of Mortmain Property / Gregorio Jose Rodriguez Carrillo -- Liberalism and Sin / Tomas Cipriano de Mosquera -- Sabina, Bring Some Candles to Light to the Virgin / Rafael Uribe Uribe / Andres Botero -- Processions and Festivities / Albalucia Angel -- We Were Not Able to Say That We Were Jewish / Nereo Lopez / Richard Cross / Nina Sanchez de Friedemann -- As a Colombian, as a Sociologist, as a Christian and as a Priest, I Am a Revolutionary / Paul Hane -- Who Stole the Chalice from Badillo's Church? / Camilo Torres Restrepo -- Life Is a Birimbi / Rafael Escalona -- Our Lady of the Assassins / Rodrigo Parra Sandoval -- One Woman's Path to Pentecostal Conversion / Fernando Vallejo -- La Ombligada / Elizabeth Brusco -- Witness to Impunity / Sergio Antonio Mosquera -- Emptying the "Storehouse" of Indian Labor and Goods / Javier Giraldo -- Anonymous: "Encomiendas, encomenderos e indigenas tributarios del Nuevo Reino de Granada" / Javier Giraldo -- To Santafe! To Santafe! / Javier Giraldo -- Anonymous: Capitulaciones de Zipaquira / Javier Giraldo -- Killing a Jaguar / Javier Giraldo -- Time of the Slaves Is Over / Jorge Isaacs -- Landowner's Rules / Candelario Obeso -- Muleteers on the Road / Angel Maria Caballero -- Campesino Life in the Boyaca Highlands / Beatriz Helena Robledo -- One Lowland Town Becomes a World: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Returning to Aracataca / Orlando Fats Borda -- Bricklayers: 1968 On Film / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Switchblades in the City / Jorge Rufinelli -- Interview with Jesus / Arturo Alape -- Desplazado: "Now I Am Here as an Outcast" / Arturo Alape -- Anonymous / Arturo Alape -- Agrarian Counterreform / Arturo Alape -- Rules Are Issued for Different Populations: Indians, Blacks, Non-Christians / Luis Bernardo Florez Enciso -- Anonymous: Libro de acuerdos de la Audiencia Real del Nuevo Reino de Granada / Luis Bernardo Florez Enciso -- Marques and Marquesa of San Jorge / Luis Bernardo Florez Enciso -- Indian Nobleman Petitions His King / Joaquin Gutierrez -- Captured Maroon Faces His Interrogators / Diego de Torres -- Carrasquilla's Characters: La Negra Narcisa el Amito Martin and Dona Barbara / Francisco Angola -- Carried through the Streets of Bogota: Grandmother's Sedan Chair / Tomas Carrasquilla -- Street-Car Bogota of New Social Groups: Clerks, Switchboard Operators, Pharmacists / Eduardo Caballero Calderon -- It Is a Norm among Us to Believe That a Woman Cannot Act on Her Own Criteria / Augusto Morales Pino -- I Energetically Protest in Defense of Truth and Justice / Maria Cano -- Bringing Presents from Abroad / Manuel Quintin Lame -- Cleaning for Other People / Manuel Zapata Olivella -- Feminist Writer Sketches the Interior Life and Death of an Upper-Class Woman / Anna Rubbo / Michael Taussig -- Barranquilla's First Gay Carnival Queen / Marvel Moreno -- Interview with Lino Fernando / Gloria Triana -- Romance Tourism / Gloria Triana -- They Are Using Me as Cannon Fodder / Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel -- Captains and Criminals / Flaco Flow / Melanina -- War to the Death / Juan Rodriguez Freile -- Girl's View of War in the Capital / Simon Bolivar -- Let This Be Our Last War / Soledad Acosta de Samper -- "Silent Demonstration" of February 7 1948 / Jose Maria Quijano Wallis -- Dead Bodies Appear on the Streets / Jorge Eliecer Gaitan -- Cruelty Acted as a Stimulant / Gustavo Alvarez Gardeazdbal -- Two Views of the National Front / Jose Gutierrez Rodriguez -- Starting Points for the FARC and the ELN / Ofelia Uribe de Acosta / Alvaro Gomez Hurtado -- Where Is Omaira Montoya? / Fuerzas Armadas -- We Prefer a Grave in Colombia to a Cell in the United States / Los Extraditables / Maria Tila Uribe / Francisco J. Trujillo -- Medic's Life within a Cocaine-Fueled Paramilitary Organization / Maria Tila Uribe / Francisco J. Trujillo -- Carlos Castano "Confesses" / Diego Viafara Salinas -- Song of the Flies / Mauricio Aranguren Molina -- Kidnapped / Maria Mercedes Carranza -- Parapolitics / Luis Mendieta Ovalle -- Turning Points in the Colombian Conflict 1960s-1990s / Claudia Lopez / Oscar Sevillano -- El Dorado / Joseph Fabry / James Mollison / Robert Romero Ospina / Daniel Jimenez / El Espectador / Ricardo Mazalan -- Conquest Yields Other Treasures: Potatoes, Yucca, Corn / Fray Pedro Simon -- Cauca's Slave Economy / Juan de Castellanos / Galeotto Cei -- Jesuit Writes to the King: Profits from Coca Leaf Could Surpass Tea / German Colmenares -- Bogota's Market ca.

1850 / Antonio Julian -- Banker Invites Other Bankers to Make Money in Colombia / Agustin Codazzi -- How Many People Were Massacred in 1928? / Telegrams American Legation in Bogota and Consul in Santa Marta / Phanor James Eder -- Strikers or Revolutionaries? Strikers and Revolutionaries? / Phanor James Eder -- Coffee and "Social Equilibrium" / Federacion Nacional de Cafeteros / Mauricio Archila Neira / Raul Eduardo Mahecha -- Two Views of a Foreign Mining Enclave: The Choco Pacifico / Mauricio Archila Neira / Raul Eduardo Mahecha -- Carlos Ardila Lillie: "How I Got Rich" / Patrick O'Neill / Aquiles Escalante -- Arrow / Patricia Lara Salive / Jesus Ortiz Nieves -- Portrait of Drug "Mules" in the 1990s / David Sanchez Juliao -- Luciano Romero: One among Thousands of Unionists Murdered in Colombia / European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights and Peter Brabeck-Letmathe / Alfredo Molano -- Creole Reads the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen / Alfredo Molano -- Humboldt's Diary, May 1801 / Antonio Narino -- Most Practical, Because the Most Brutal / Alexander von Humboldt -- Grandfather Arrives from Bremen / Jose Asuncion Silva -- We Were Called "Turks" / Pedro Gomez Valderrama -- Two Presidents' Views: "I Took the Isthmus" and "I Was Dispossessed, Insulted and Dishonored to No End" / Elias Saer Kayata -- Facing the Yankee Enemy / Marco Fidel Suarez / Theodore Roosevelt -- Bogota's Art Scene in 1957: "There Is No Room for Any of the Old Servilism" / Jose Maria Vargas Vila -- 1969: The GAO Evaluates Money Spent in Colombia / Marta Traba / US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations -- Who Was Where during the Mapiripan Massacre? / Marta Traba -- Minga of Voluntary Eradication / Ignacio Gomez Gomez / Asociacion Popular de Negros Unidos del Rio Yurumangui -- Latin American Ex-Presidents Push to Reorient the War on Drugs / Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy / Ignacio Gomez Gomez -- New Export Product: Yo soy Betty, la fea Goes Global / Ignacio Gomez Gomez -- Today We Understand and Can Say No / Yeidy Rivero -- Toward a Stable and Enduring Peace / Delegados de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejercito del Pueblo / Lorenzo Muelas.