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Almanacs, as time technologies, were means of diffusion of important information, both for public and private life. In addition to serving for the institution of time, these popular printed matters were concerned with disseminating useful recipes, political and commercial information, and expressing the political changes brought about by modernity. The present work is concerned with the study of the production of almanacs in Colombia (18111873), paying attention to formats, uses and production. For methodological reasons, a distinction is made between almanacs, calendars and strangers' guides, and based on the notion of refiguration, adaptation forms coherent with the needs of the circulation context are studied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article analyzes the concept of Colombian national identity, within the framework of postcolonial studies and, especially, through the work of Colombian philosopher, Santiago Castro-Gómez (1958), who approaches this phenomenon with a Foucauldian focus. This postcolonial perspective acknowledges the role of identity in the reproduction of colonial power -- more so, when a nationalist imaginary such as Colombia's is constituted--and, to that extent, it becomes relevant to understanding current social and cultural issues in the country. Thus, this article highlights two analytical categories: coloniality and genealogy. On the one hand, the contribution by coloniality will provide the theoretical arsenal and the connection with the colonial case. On the other, genealogy will establish the relationship with the methodological proposal adopted by Castro-Gómez. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is the result of the metric lexical analysis of Cartagena's newspaper called Argos Americano (September 1810-March 1812) which shows the various discussions that took place on topics such as nation, government and independence during a turbulent time in which Spain had been invaded by the armies of Napoleon and the King Ferdinand VII was made prisoner, leaving a power vacuum that plunged regions of the American continent in uncertainty to define a government. This work is part of the research project ''Cultural History of the Press of the New Granada (1810-1820) sponsored by the Directorate of Research and the School of Communication at the University of La Sabana. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we will reflect on two temporal exhibitions held in the premises of the National Museum of Colombia, from discussions about multiculturalism, patrimonial appropriation processes, the new museology and politics of representation. First, we will consider the case of Velorios y santos vivos. Comunidades negras, afrocolombianas, raizales y palenqueras and, on the other hand, Del monumento al pensamiento. Patrimonio de Colombia para la humanidad, two exhibition experiences that account for different ways of conceiving a multiethnic and multicultural nation, both in the production process and in the final product presented to the public and that in turn, show the challenges which this state institution faces when looking to capture the logic of affirmation and appreciation of difference introduced in the 1991 Constitution and in the politics of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) safeguarding . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the early twentieth century, reading and writing processes in Colombia aimed at developing strategies that, in one way or another, strengthened political, pedagogical or ideological projects. Elementary education adopted textbooks as a tool for the projection of the confessional, hispanistic and conservative values of the time. With this in mind, a series of textbooks were analyzed in order to find the overlapping traces and voices (Bakhtin, 1982) in the text. For this, the content analysis technique was used, along with elements of qualitative and quantitative interpretation. Some of the features that characterized this historical period of the nation were identified in the selected textbooks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Bullfights have been an important part o f the Colombian history since the Spanish colonialism, the independence revolution, and the modern society nowadays. Therefore laws have been passed, as well as an important number of the Constitutional Court decisions have been made regarding the protection of this cultural expression of the Colombian nation. This article analyses not only the laws but also the Constitutional Court decisions in these matters. To conclude with a study of the decision of the Cataluña parliament, that prohibits bullfights in that Spaniard region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This current historic research aims to describe how the strategies of war used by the Colombian army in the history of Colombia, from 1930 to 2006, have evolved. To do so, first the strategies of war will be defined conceptually, and then, those used by the Colombian army, will be introduced. Finally, it will be attempted to make evident their evolution in this armed body, managing to leave further routes of analysis which can cross several variables, in order to better understand the reality of a long armed conflict as it is the Colombian case. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article seeks to stimulate thought around the language we use in social sciences and in Colombian public fields when speaking about Colombia; in other words, to promote thought, debates, and proposals about the country in general. I propose bringing the notion of the republic to the forefront, and abandoning the use - except in specific cases - of the notions of patria (homeland), and nation. The notion of republic refers to a geographic field of law, certainly in constant construction, but completely tangible, applicable, and susceptible of being discussed with regard to its validity, reform, application, or infraction. The notion of republic opens possibilities of critical thought regarding history, social sciences, humanities, law, and art, and simultaneously leads to responsible and pertinent discussions in the public field. At the same time, the word patria was used in the origins of the republic to invoke in its favor feelings of local belonging forged in previous centuries and which are today extemporaneous. The term nation, in highly inequitable societies such as Colombia's, refers to a project set in the future, and it is not uncommon to find the expression "construction of a nation". As a category of social analysis, the term has limited reach and its effect in critical thought is to create ambiguity and mystification. To demonstrate this I focus on two relatively recent books in which a debate between two general and opposite perceptions of Colombia is tacitly started. This debate loses strength precisely because it is stated in terms of nation and not of republic. I am referring to the books of Alfonso Múnera, El fracaso de la nación (The Failure of Nation) (1998) and Eduardo Posada Carbó, La nación soñada (The Dreamed Nation) (2006). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article shows that the Republic was a pivotal reference point in the political language of early nineteenth-century Colombia. By articulating old and new meanings, the Republic allows us to discuss the possibilities of an analysis that, leaving aside the nation as a privileged concept, follows the changing shape of the political community. The article first discusses some of the problems with the analytical category of nation as the privileged way to understand the post-revolutionary period. Next, it highlights the various options available at the start of the nineteenth century to refer to the political community-fatherland, nation, republican homeland- to then emphasize the centrality of republican invocations. In the third section, it shows how the idea of the Republic was pervaded by Catholic references. The article concludes by insisting how this case suggests new ways of thinking about the shape and trajectory of political communities in early nineteenth-century Colombia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study is a historical approach to the National Museum of Colombia, in order to analyze the representations of the Nation and its inhabitants exhibited between 1880 and 1912. First, it refers to some of the features of the Museum, taking into account its development during the nineteenth century and the social and cultural function it fulfilled; it then studies how collections were established by examining their origin and type of object gathered at the time, discussing how objects were classified in relation to the segment population and the variation of this classification during this period. Finally, it exemplifies how specific segments of the population were represented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After independence was achieved and throughout the 19th century, political, economical and cultural Colombian elites invented a model of nation based on the idea that highlands and white race were progress exclusive raw material, as though; based on racial and geographical attributions a regional hierarchy was built, and this allowed the configuration of local identities defined by this model. Meanwhile, besides Antioquia had an important presence of African and African descendant population since colonial times, from different enunciation places and turning over the colonization entrepreneurship of the 19th century as a the foundational myth, representations that showed Antioquia and its inhabitants as a successful correlate of the relationship between Andean highlands and white race started to be created, opposing to the negative valuation over lowlands and black population. This article, on one side, examines which were the representational mechanisms of Africans and their descendants in Antioquia through Tomas Carrasquilla literary work, and, on the other, wants to make evident that those creations marginalized the contributions done by Africans and their descendants to Antioquean history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article explores how popular classes, especially Afro-Colombians, created an alliance with the Liberal Party in the Cauca region of Colombia during the mid-nineteenth century. Afro-Caucanos negotiated with elite leaders of the party, trading their votes and service as soldiers in the civil wars of the era for a variety of social, economic and political gains, including the abolition of slavery, access to commons, the reduction of aguardiente monopolies, and obtaining the status of citizens. Afro-Caucanos also redefined citizenship, imagining a popular liberalism different from the conceptions of Liberal elites, investing it with more powerful notions of liberty and equality. In the 1870s, the alliance began to fracture as elite Liberals refused to break the hacienda system and grant land rights to their popular supporters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from the novel Yngermina (1844), the article reflects on the racial configuration of Bolívar Grande, showing that, even at the end of the nineteenth century, indigenous people still had a significant presence among the population and society of this part of Colombia's Caribbean region. It critiques those who have censured the novel's author for rooting his fictionalization of this region's formation in native peoples. It also analyzes why they were made invisible during that century, and why contemporary academic work reproduces this view. By introducing an hitherto-ignored ethnic variable, it adds a central element to current discussions on this region, nation, and identitarian relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The figure of the soldier writer in literature stories constitutes a foundational paradigm in the construction of the idea about the Latin-American intellectual. Such paradigm is the object of a dynamic that we named the circle of metamorphosis, which evidences the process that begins with the soldier writer in battle —represented by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada— and ends with the hero writer as a constructor of public opinion and narrator of national history. All these images take part in the construction of national identity and in the ideal of the Latin-American intellectual linked to the battle and performance characteristics of Emancipation. Thus, this article aims to open the door for future discussions around the rol of literature stories inside the social and historical development of the continent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This commentary is an attempt to reflect on Michel de Certeau's "inverse outlook", considering the idea of "possessing words" as pivotal in the symbolic actions of May' 68 and their echo in Colombia's socio-political reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the last couple of years, the "national" element seems to have been revived in different Colombian milieus; that is, not only on the political scene, but mostly in the midst of everyday life: in advertising strategies, in media discourse, and in audiovisual accounts of all sorts to which we are daily exposed. Thus, the need exists to examine which or what the strategies used by mass media and by means of which the nation is portrayed to us are; what type of discourse, which rhetorical tools are used in order to construct a unified referent which we call Colombia, a referent which in turn we incorporate into our everyday practice. The aforementioned analysis constitutes the purpose of our research, which in turn presents a summary of our conceptual and methodological assumptions as well as some of our early first results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article concerns how the learned Colombian intellectuals used their writing proficiency during the second half of the 19th century to tell the story of our country and construct the subjects/objects which were inside/outside the nation's temporality and space. This narrative had two main axes: the continuity of the relationship established between the territory and its inhabitants, and/or the denial of the contemporaneity owed to those populations which represented racial otherness. Both axes exacerbated the difference, since the need to attract to the nation's 'civilizing' process demanded the previous rift or withdrawal of one or the other; yet the prescription of homogeneity and the simultaneous proscription of heterogeneity had, as condition for their possibility, recourse to the reiterated description of alterity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through an indepth analysis of writings published between 1853 and 1869, this article demonstrates that the writing of history in Colombia was influenced by the modern- colonial experience of learned citizens. From this perspective, the 19th century writers perceived and described a world in which the racial characters, the singularities of the environment and the local customs, were the basic interpretive tools in order to understand the past, modify the present and construct the future. This resulted in a historiography whereby the national territory, the person and the understanding of time, were fractured by the presence of inappropriate alterities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the conflictive relationship between the Colombian state and local elites as they negotiated the nationwide implementation of primary schools in the 1820s. The central government wanted to create a new republic of citizens (or citizens to be), but it faced the resistance of local elites as it asserted the centralization of teaching methods (specifically monitorialism), tax collection, and curriculum. In the cases of Nemocón and Zipaquirá, indigenous leaders protested the state's disposal of resguardo lands to benefit schools that their children would not attend. In the case of Mompox, local elites proposed a private charitable association to support the development of schools and, further, the extension of "Catholic and civic" education to orphans, workers, and prisoners. Such complaints and proposals stemmed from local perceptions of the most pressing need and most advantageous employment of community funds. The central government disagreed and limited severely the ability of local leaders to direct community treasuries beyond the prescriptions of the state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses certain relationships between gender and nation in Latin America by both describing and analyzing some features of the Concurso Nacional de Belleza (National Beauty Contest) in Colombia in the first half of 20th century. The text raises three issues. First, the conflicting forms that identity takes in the process of constructing nations. Second, that the beauty contest is a way of life for women that is both public and civilized. Third, the dispute over social leadership implicit in the contest itself. Finally, the article explains that the reigns of the winners are themselves interesting ways to understand how Latin American societies are both experiencing and facing transformations in the criteria marking social distinctions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article makes a comparative reading of two diaries by Soledad Acosta and José María Samper, written between 1853 and 1855, the first one, and between January and February 1855, the second one. It places both authors, lovers at that time and future husband and wife, in the context of Colombian 19th century national foundation, and tries to study their texts in terms of gender studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The emergence of a discourse of resistance on the Colombian Atlantic coast represents the early inscribing of a minority hybrid identity that made the periphery visible vis-a-vis the Andean hegemonic center, complicating the narrow and abstract concept of national identity in Colombia. This marginal locus of enunciation represents a singular establishment of position within the national literary field in the 1930's, at a time when the first outburst of negritude surged forth in the French and English-speaking communities of the Caribbean and Black Poetry charged the landscape. Through a true aesthetic of resistance, the Caribbean put into verse the relevance of the American world as a true counterpoint between the imagined community of the nation and the real community of regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the Salon of 1910, an art exhibition organized during the Centennial Exposition. It examines the agents involved in this exposition such as the Academy, the artists, the critics, and the jurors' awards. The article employs Bourdieu's field theory to explain developments in the arts in Colombia and to explore the links between the idea of the nation promoted by the Centennial and the artistic works exhibited in the Salon. The article offers, in the end, a novel and suggestive approach to historic and social processes in the arts in Colombia at the beginning of the 20th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Colombian geographic imaginary has condensed into a series of representations that emphasize the tropical character of the nation and at the same time qualify it through a juxtaposition with the Andean region, which has been stripped of that character. In this article, we suggest that three axes frame the discussion of the tropics: nature, disease, and population. We analyze these axes in three different cases that are significant for being both tipical and singular: descriptions of Amazonian nature; medical geographies of disease in the Magdalena river valley; and the narratives regarding the Black population of the Colombian Pacific region. In all these cases, the struggle for territorial appropriation is tied to the desire to know and define it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]