Overview :In Beyond the Lettered City, the anthropologist Joanne Rappaport and the art historian Tom Cummins examine the colonial imposition of alphab... Read More
Overview :How does a culture in which writing is not a prominent feature create historical tradition? In The Politics of Memory, Joanne Rappaport answ... Read More
Overview :Although only 2 percent of Colombia's population identifies as indigenous, that figure belies the significance of the country's indigenous m... Read More
Overview :Much of the scholarship on difference in colonial Spanish America has been based on the "racial" categorizations of indigeneity, Africanness... Read More
Overview :In the early 1970s, a group of Colombian intellectuals led by the pioneering sociologist Orlando Fals Borda created a research-activist coll... Read More