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The Colombia reader : history, culture, politics

Farnsworth-Alvear, Ann, 1965- (editor.). Palacios, Marco, (editor.). Gómez López, Ana María, 1981- (editor.).

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.

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ISBN: 9780822362074
ISBN: 0822362074
ISBN: 9780822362289
ISBN: 0822362287
Physical Description: print
xiv, 634 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Durham ; Duke University Press, [2017]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.