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"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...

CONTENIDO: El apoyo campesino y la expansión guerrillera - Bienes colectivos e incentivos selectivos: las fronteras del poder estatal - Comando Quintín Lame. Por la defensa de los derechos indígenas - La emergencia de los movimientos insurgentes - El foquismo y su fracaso en América Latina - Fundamentos para una sociología de la guerrilla - Insurgencia crónica, empate negativo y proceso de paz - El manifiesto de Simacota.

CONTENIDO: Organización - Origen - Institucionalización - Fundamentos y problemas políticos - Marxismo y Lennismo - Bolivarianismo - El concepto de sociedad civil - Población civil y derecho internacional humanitario - Democracia y poder local - Dificultades del quehacer político - El problema urbano.

"Magnificent edition of articles translated into Spanish, by the late Berkeley geographer, James J. Parsons (1914-97). Approximately half are studies on Colombia. Parsons was known for his masterful ability to understand, from direct observation, the interraction between nature and culture"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.