Waubonsee Community College

The Colombia reader, history, culture, politics, Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, Marco Palacios, and Ana María Gómez López, editors

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

The Colombia reader

bibliography

934195060

Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, Marco Palacios, and Ana María Gómez López, editors

The Latin America readers

history, culture, politics

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

Human geography -- Ahpikondiá -- Photographs of indigenous people -- "One after the other, they fell under your majesty's rule" : lands loyal to the Bogotá become New Granada -- A city in the African diaspora -- Crossing to nationhood across a Cabuya bridge in the Eastern Andes -- A gaping mouth swallowing men -- Frontier "incidents" trouble Bogotá -- Crab antics on San Andrés and Providencia -- Pacific coast communities and law -- Toward a history of Colombian musics -- Colombian soccer is transformed : the selcción nacional in the 1990s -- Colombian queensReligious pluralities : faith, intolerance, politics, and accommodation -- Idolators and encomenderos -- Miracles made possible by African interpreters -- My soul, impoverished and unclothed -- A king of cups -- Courting Papal anger : the "scandal" or Mortmain property -- Liberalism and sin -- Sabina, bring some candles and light to the Virgin -- Professions and festivities -- We were not able to say that we were Jewish -- As a Colombia, as a Sociologist, as a Christian, and as a Priest, I am a revolutionary -- Who stole the Chalice from Badillo's church -- Life is a Birimbí -- Our lady of the assassins -- One women's path to Pentecostal conversion -- La ombligada -- Witness to impunityCity and country -- Emptying the "storehouse" of Indian labor and goods -- To Santafé! to Santafé! -- Killing a jaguar -- The time of the slaves is over -- A landowner's rule -- Muleteers on the road -- Campesino life in the Boyacá highlands -- One lowland town becomes a world : Gabriel García Márquez returning to Aracataca -- The bricklayers : 1968 on film -- Switchblades in the city -- Desplazado : "now I am here as an outcast" -- An agrarian counterrreformLived inequalities -- Rules are issued for different populations : Indians, Blacks, Non-Christians -- The marqués and marquesa of San Jorge -- An Indian nobleman petitions his king -- A captured maroon faces his interrogators -- Carrasquilla's characters : La Negra Narcissa, el Amito Martin, and Doña Bárbara -- Carried through the streets of Bogotá : grandmother's sedan chair -- The street-car Bogotá of new social groups : clerks, switchboard operators, pharmacists -- It is norm among us to believe that a women cannot act on her own criteria -- I energetically protest in defense of truth and justice -- Bringing presents from abroad -- Cleaning for other people -- A feminist writer sketches the interior life and death of an upper-class woman -- Barranquilla's first gay carnival queen -- Romance tourism -- They are using me as cannon fodderViolence -- Captains and criminals -- War to death -- A girl's view of war in the capital -- Let this be our last war -- The "silent demonstration" -- Dead bodies appear on the streets -- Cruelty acted as a stimulant -- Two views of the national front -- Starting points for the FARC and the ELN -- Where is Omaira Montoya? -- We prefer a grave in Colombia to a cell in the United States -- A medic's life within a cocaine-fueled paramilitary organization -- Carlos Castaño "confessed" -- The song of the flies -- Kidnapped -- Parapolitics -- Turning points in the Colombia conflictChange and continuity in the Colombian economy -- El Dorado -- The conquer yields other treasures : potatoes, yucca, corn -- Cauca's slave economy -- A Jesuit writes to the king : profits from coca leaf could surpass tea -- Bogotá's market, ca. 1850 -- A banker invites other bankers to make money in Colombia -- How many people were massacred in 1928? -- Strikers and revolutionaries? strikers and revolutionaries? -- Coffee and "social equilibrium" -- Two views of a foreign mining enclave: the Chocó pacífico -- Carlos Ardila Lülle -- The arrow -- A portrait of drug "mules" in the 1990s -- Luciano Romero : one among thousands of unionists murdered in ColombiaTransnational Colombia -- A Creole reads the declaration of the rights of man and the citizen -- Humboldt's diary, May 1801 -- The most practical, because the most brutal -- Grandfather arrives from Bremen -- We were called "Turks" -- Two presidents' views : "I took Isthmus" and "I was dispossessed, insulted, dishonored to no end" -- Facing the Yankee enemy -- Bogotá's art scene in 1957 : "there is no room for any of the old servilism" -- 1969 : the GAO evaluates money spent in Colombia -- Who was where during the Mapiripán massacre? -- A minga of voluntary eradication -- Latin American ex-presidents push to reorient the War on Drugs -- A new export product : yo soy Betty, la fea goes global -- Today we understand and say no -- Toward a stable and enduring peace