The Colombia reader : history, culture, politics /
Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, Marco Palacios, and Ana María Gómez López, editors.
- xiv, 634 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- The Latin America readers .
- Latin America readers .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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