Fiestas

Historia de la Tristeza narra la vida de cinco mujeres que luchan por sobrevivir al desplazamiento y a la pérdida de identidad, después de dejar a sus espaldas lo que alguna vez fueron y amaron. Todas han vivido en carne propia diferentes tipos de agresión: política, social y doméstica. Lo conocido ha sido disgregado, los vínculos se han roto y, en ese caótico deambular en medio del dolor, los personajes indeleblemente buscan un nuevo hogar, la permanencia de nuevas raíces, un nuevo renacer. Son las víctimas de La Violencia que ha azotado a Colombia desde la década de los años...

"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...

The author details her early years in Paris, where she was raised amidst diplomats, literary masters, and artists, and her return to her native Colombia, where, as a senator, she went up against the powerful drug cartels.

"Ground-breaking, comprehensive multivolume history of the Huila dept. from pre-conquest to the present. Work is the product of the collaboration of diverse university faculty and regional specialists who utilized archival, published, and oral sources to write monographic essays on individual topics. Vol. 1 covers preconquest through the colonial era; vol. 2 covers independence through the 20th century; vol. 3 covers economic topics, social movements, colonization, government; vol. 4 covers education, daily life, women, health, diversions; vol. 5 covers literature, art, architecture....