The politics of memory : native historical interpretation in the Colombian Andes / Joanne Rappaport.
How does a culture in which writing is not a prominent feature create historical tradition? In The Politics of Memory, Joanne Rappaport answers this question by tracing the past three centuries of the intellectual history of the Nasa--a community in the Colombian Andes. Focusing on the Nasa historia...
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Duke University Press,
1998.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: interpreting the past
- Part 1 The creation of a chiefly ideology: Nasa historical thought under Spanish rule
- 2. The rise of the colonial Cacique
- 3. The birth of the myth: Don Juan Tama y Calambás
- Part 2 From colony to republic: Cacique and Caudillo
- 4. The chiefdom transformed: The Nineteenth-century Nasa
- From sharecropper to Caudillo: Manuel Quintín Lame
- Part 3 Contemporary historical voices
- 6. The Cacique reborn: The Twentieth-century Nasa
- Julio Ninquinás, a contemporary Nasa historian
- Conclusion: Narrative and image in a textual community.