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The Colombia reader : history, culture, politics
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Containing over one hundred selections ranging from songs, artwork, and poetry, to journalism, oral history, and scholarship-most published in English for the first time-The Colombia Reader present...
Containing over one hundred selections ranging from songs, artwork, and poetry, to journalism, oral history, and scholarship-most published in English for the first time-The Colombia Reader presents a rich and multi-layered account of this complex nation from the colonial era to the present.
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- Creator
- edited by Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, Marco Palacios, and Ana María Gómez López
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, [2017]
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- 1 online resource
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- ISBNs
- 9780822373865, 0822373866, 9780822362074, 0822362074, 9780822362289, 0822362287, 9780822362074
- OCLC
- ocn940935871
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. Human Geography; Ahpikondiá, Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff; Photographs of Indigenous People, Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff; "One after the Other, They All 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 FajardoCrab 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; II. 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, SJMy Soul, Impoverished and Unclothed ..., Francisca Josefa Castillo; A King of Cups, Gregorio José Rodríguez Carrillo, Bishop of Cartagena; Courting Papal Anger: The "Scandal" of Mortmain Property, Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera; Liberalism and Sin, Anonymous, Rafael Uribe Uribe, and Andrés Botero; Sabina, Bring Some Candles to Light to the Virgin, Albalucía Ángel; Processions and Festivities, Nereo López, Richard Cross, and Nina Sánchez de Friedemann
- We Were Not Able to Say That We Were Jewish, Paul HanéAs 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 Woman's Path to Pentecostal Conversion, Elizabeth Brusco; La Ombligada, Sergio Antonio Mosquera; A Witness to Impunity, Javier Giraldo, SJ; III. City and Country
- Emptying the "Storehouse" of Indian Labor and Goods, Anonymous: "Encomiendas, encomenderos e indígenas tributarios del Nuevo Reino de Granada"To Santafé! To Santafé!, Anonymous: Capitulaciones de Zipaquirá; 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