Movimientos sociales, estado y democracia en Colombia

Lo divino y lo humano : El calendario festivo / Marcos González Pérez / - El Sagrado corazón ¿una cuestión política o de religiosidad popular? / Cecilia Henríquez / - Rito religioso y rito secular en una fiesta ecuatoriana / Ernesto Salazar / - La obediencia, fuente de poder. Masones y Jesuítas, siglo XIX / Amparo Ibáñez / - Bordes, pliegues, simbolos e imposiciones : Cultura y contracultura en América Latina / José Daniel García Sánchez / - Imaginarios urbanos en América Latina / Armando Silva / - Las ciudades de la noche roja. La cultura de la violencia a través de la salsa...

"Essays by leading Colombian political economists review various aspects of contemporary Colombia including political parties, the congress, justice system, military, Catholic Church, social movements, and reform policies. Excellent review of the current scene"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

"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...

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