The politics of memory : native historical interpretation in the Colombian Andes / Joanne Rappaport.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rappaport, Joanne.

Series:

Latin America otherwise.

Latin America otherwise

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paez Indians--History.

Paez Indians.

Paez Indians--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 historians of the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, Rappaport highlights the differences between "native" history and Eurocentric history and demonstrates how these histories must be examined in relation to the particular circumstances in which they were produced.Reconsidering the predominantly mythic status of non-Western historical narrative, Rappaport identifies the political realities that influenced the form and content of Andean history, revealing the distinct historical vision of these stories. Because of her examination of the influences of literacy in the creation of history, Rappaport’s analysis makes a special contribution to Latin American and Andean studies, solidly grounding subaltern texts in their sociopolitical contexts.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

About the Series

Preface to the Duke Edition

List of Illustrations

Preface

1. Introduction: Interpreting the Past

PART I. 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 Calambas

PART II. From Colony to Republic: Cacique and Caudillo

4. The Chiefdom Transformed: The Nineteenth-Century Nasa

5. From Sharecropper to Caudillo: Manuel Quintin Lame

PART III. Contemporary Historical Voices

6. The Cacique Reborn: The TwentiethCentury Nasa

7. Julio Niquinas, a Contemporary Nasa Historian

8. Conclusion: Narrative and Image in a Textual Community

Glossary

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-239) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822398615

0822398613

OCLC:

889583009