The politics of memory: native historical interpretation in the Colombian Andes

List of illustrations Preface 1. Introduction: interpreting the past PART I: THE CREATION OF A CHIEFLY IDEOLOGY: PAEZ HISTORICAL THOUGHT UNDER SOANISH RULE 2. The rise of the colonial Cacique 3. The birth of the myth: Don Juan Tama y Calambas PART II: FROM COLONY TO REPUBLIC: CACIQUE AND CAUDILLO 4. The chiefdom transformed: the nineteenth century Paez 5. From sharecropper to Caudillo: Manuel Quintin Lame PART III: CONTEMPORARY HISTORICAL VOICES 6. The Cacique reborn: the twentieth century Paez 7. Julio Niquinas, a contemporary Paez historian 8. Conclusion: narrative and image in a textual community.