Fiestas

"The buildings recognized as assets of cultural interest that have been selected to be part of this book make sense as structuring elements within the historical construction of the environment and the city of Bogotá. These buildings are not only part of the different urban fragments but who, in many cases, were promoters of the development of their areas, outstanding landmarks of the urban form, cultural or social references for citizens or outstanding examples for the architectural history of the city. " (HKB Translation taken from the introduction by Sheril Natalia Salazar Bayona)

"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...

El informe titulado "Bloque Calima de las AUC: depredación paramilitar y narcotráfico en el suroccidente colombiano" es el segundo de la serie sobre el origen y actuación de las agrupaciones paramilitares en las regiones de Colombia, publicado por la Dirección de Acuerdos de la Verdad del Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica. El informe sobre el Bloque Calima de las AUC presenta los hallazgos sobre el surgimiento, conformación, expansión y formas de actuación de este bloque paramilitar que operó entre 1999 y 2004 en los departamentos de Cauca, Valle del Cauca y algunos municipios de...

These two stories, one poetic in the prosaic and the other prosaic poetic, represent the survival of love and the imposition of the death, including the bridge of life trying to happen in Colombia, where it is only possible to claim recognition in small private stories--Publisher.