The Politics of Memory: Native Historical Interpretation in the Colombian Andes

by Joanne Rappaport

Book Overview

How does a culture in which writing is not a prominent feature create historical tradition? In The Politics of Memory, Joanne Rappaport answers this question by tracing the past three centuries of the intellectual history of the Nasa--a community in the Colombian Andes. Focusing on the Nasa historians of the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, Rappaport highlights the differences between "native" history and Eurocentric history and demonstrates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822319721
• ISBN13: 9780822319726
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"