Crítica de la economía política

"Important contribution to the social history of the New Kingdom and Cartagena de Indias, in particular. Spanish efforts first to comprehend and then control, if not eliminate, indigenous and African forms of alleged magic, whether religious or medical, illustrated imperial imperatives of domination and cultural transformation of subject peoples. First half of book establishes definitions and structures within which confrontation of Spanish and non-Western belief systems clashed. Second half provides a series of illustrative case studies. A glossary and documentary appendices augment the...

"A regional study of indigenous resistance to Spanish colonialism during the 16th-18th centuries, based on archival research, oral history, and secondary literature. The protagonists of the story include the Embera, the Burumia, the Tule, and the Carauta, who all lived near the Atrato river. Data on parcialidades, encomenderos, and population are presented in tables. Several maps illustrate the text"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

El autor muestra en detalle como la cultura politica de los anos cuarenta hunde sus raices en un horizonte imaginario tradicional, compartido de igual modo por liberales y conservadores. Unos y otros recurren a conceptos modernos que van, sin embargo, inseparablemente unidos a motivaciones y sentimientos ancestrales. Democracia y pueblo, por ejemplo son invocados para estimular pasiones que arraigan en un pasado inmemorial. El autor toma distancia tambien de la lectura liberalizante de la historiografia dominante, de inspiracion liberal, que opone un partido conservador tradicionalista,...

Se narra las vivencias de la gente de la frontera colombo-ecuatoriana, quienes viven en la incertidumbre en medio de una guerra que nadie sabe cuándo terminará.