El centro tradicional de Bogotá. Valor de uso popular y patrimonio arquitectónico de la ciudad

Juan introduces the reader to his family and describes his life including how they earn their living recycling trash found in the local landfill.

"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...

En esta obra Carlos Villamizar Duarte apunta a construir una arqueología del concepto patria y sus usos durante las últimas décadas del vínculo colonial entre el virreinato de la Nueva Granada y la metrópoli peninsular. Consciente del poco interés que ha despertado el tema del lenguaje patriótico durante el periodo colonial, el autor quiso resaltar la transformación trascendental que significó el desplazamiento del paradigma monárquico al republicano, es decir, el paso de "un imaginario en que la Patria sólo era pensable en conjunción con la figura del rey, a otro donde su...

An anthology of columns published in the newspaper, El Espectador, in December 2006. Illustrated with cartoons of Mico.