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Mapping the Country of Regions
The nineteenth century was an era of breathtakingly ambitious geographic expeditions across the Americas. The seminal Chorographic Commission of Colombia, which began in 1850 and lasted about a decade, was one of Latin America’s most extensive. The commission’s mandate was to define and map the young republic and its resources with an eye toward modernization. In this history of the commission, Nancy P. Appelbaum focuses on the geographers' fieldwork practices and visual production as the men traversed the mountains, savannahs, and forests of more than thirty provinces in order to delineate the country’s territorial and racial composition. Their assumptions and methods, Appelbaum argue...
Challenging the Dichotomy
Challenging the Dichotomy explores how dichotomies regarding heritage dominate the discussions of ethics, practices, and institutions. Contributing authors underscore the challenge to the old paradigms from multiple forces. The case studies and discourses, both ethnographic and archaeological, arise from a wide variety of regional contexts and cultures.
Globalization and Sovereignty
This provocative and important text offers a new way of thinking about sovereignty, both past and present. Distinguished geographer John Agnew boldly challenges the widely popular story that state sovereignty is in worldwide eclipse in the face of the overwhelming processes of globalization. In challenging this perception, Agnew first traces the ways in which it has become commonplace. He then develops a new way of thinking about the geography of effective sovereignty and the various geographical forms in which sovereignty actually operates in the world, offering an exciting intellectual framework that breaks with the either/or thinking of state sovereignty versus globalization.
The Face of Peace
A multi-scale ethnography of government pedagogy in Colombia and its impact on peace. Colombia’s 2016 peace agreement with the FARC guerrillas sought to end fifty years of war and won President Juan Manuel Santos the Nobel Peace Prize. Yet Colombian society rejected it in a polarizing referendum, amid an emotive disinformation campaign. Gwen Burnyeat joined the Office of the High Commissioner for Peace, the government institution responsible for peace negotiations, to observe and participate in an innovative “peace pedagogy” strategy to explain the agreement to Colombian society. Burnyeat’s multi-scale ethnography reveals the challenges government officials experienced communicating with skeptical audiences and translating the peace process for public opinion. She argues that the fatal flaw in the peace process lay in government-society relations, enmeshed in culturally liberal logics and shaped by the politics of international donors. The Face of Peace offers the Colombian case as a mirror to the global crisis of liberalism, shattering the fantasy of rationality that haunts liberal responses to “post-truth” politics.
Gender and Citizenship in Transitional Justice
Through two Colombian case studies, Sanne Weber identifies the ways in which conflict experiences are defined by structures of gender inequality, and how these could be transformed in the post-conflict context. The author reveals that current, apparently gender-sensitive, transitional justice (TJ) and disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) laws and policies ultimately undermine rather than transform gender equality and, consequently, weaken the chances of achieving holistic and durable peace. To overcome this, Weber offers an innovative approach to TJ and DDR that places gendered citizenship as both the starting point and the continued driving force of post-conflict reconstruction.
Decolonial Feminisms, Power and Place
This book draws on participatory ethnographic research to understand how rural Colombian women work to dismantle the coloniality of power. It critically examines the ways in which colonial feminisms have homogenized the "category of woman,” ignoring the intersecting relationship of class, race, and gender, thereby excluding the voices of “subaltern women” and upholding existing power structures. Supplementing that analysis are testimonials from rural Colombian women who speak about their struggles for sovereignty and against territorial, sexual, and racialized violence enacted upon their land and their bodies. By documenting the stories of rural women and centering their voices, this book seeks to dismantle the coloniality of power and gender, and narrate and imagine decolonial feminist worlds. Scholars in gender studies, rural studies, and post-colonial studies will find this work of interest.
Indigenous Peoples and Archaeology in Latin America
Eighteen chapters primarily by Latin American scholars describe the range of relations between indigenous peoples and archaeology in the first major attempt to describe indigenous archaeology in Latin America for an English speaking audience.
Etnografía y espacio
La etnografía no puede ser una suma de herramientas aplicadas en un espacio dado, y a unos sujetos considerados fuentes de información o “ejemplares”; al contrario, ella permite acompañar procesos, dinámicas, relaciones, personas, materiales...
Reinvención de América, La. Proyecciones y percepciones Europa-América Latina, siglos XIX-XX
A mediados del siglo XVIII empezó a reelaborarse una imagen de los territorios no europeos y de las sociedades que habitaban en ellos. Fue también entonces cuando se configuró claramente el proyecto de «modernidad» y de «progreso» basado en supuestos tales como el desarrollo de una ciencia «objetiva», una moral universal, y una ley regulada por lógicas propias en un contexto colonial del mundo que distinguía entre lo occidental o europeo y el resto de pueblos y culturas. Ese proyecto fue llevado a América por viajeros, científicos, misioneros y exploradores, entre otros, a lo largo de los siglos XIX y XX, y asumido, modificado o rechazado por las sociedades americanas. A través de análisis de caso de diversos actores foráneos y locales en Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador y Perú, y a partir de distintas fuentes que incluyen textos escritos, fotografías, films y objetos de cultura material, en esta obra se problematizan las categorías de estudio, los supuestos teóricos, los ingredientes fundamentales del proyecto «civilizatorio» y su implementación.
Lo humano y lo divino
La metalurgia antigua del continente americano, con varios milenios de desarrollo y una extensa dispersión, posee una gran riqueza simbólica; las mitologías de distintos grupos indígenas contemporáneos han mantenido elementos simbólicos pertenecientes a sistemas de creencias que se remontan a poblaciones antiguas. En este libro se propone un análisis integral del simbolismo de metales y metalurgia a partir del estudio de esas mitologías, complementado con información arqueológica e histórica. Se destacan principios cosmogónicos básicos y una estructura simbólica que integra diversas interpretaciones regionales según las creencias de grupos indígenas particulares.
