Introduction ; I. Human geography. Ahpikondiá / Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff ; Photographs of indigenous people / Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff ; "One after the other, they fell under your majesty's rule" : lands loyal to the Bogotá become New Granada / Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada and anonymous ; A city in the African diaspora / Anonymous and Álvaro José Arroyo ; Crossing to nationhood across a Cabuya bridge in the Eastern Andes / Manuel Ancízar ; A gaping mouth swallowing men / José Eustasio Rivera ; Frontier "incidents" trouble Bogotá / Jane M. Rausch and Alfredo Villamil Fajardo ; Crab antics on San Andrés and Providencia / Peter Wilson ; Pacific coast communities and Law 70 of 1993 / Senate of the Republic of Colombia ; Toward a history of Colombian musics / Egberto Bermúdez ; Colombian soccer is transformed : the selección nacional in the 1990s / Andrés Dávila Ladrón de Guevara ; Colombian queens / Jaime Manrique --
II. Religious pluralities : faith, intolerance, politics, and accommodation. Idolators and encomenderos / Fray Jerónimo de San Miguel ; Miracles made possible by African interpreters / Anna María Splendiani and Tulio Aristizábal, SJ ; My soul, impoverished and unclothed ... / Francisca Josefa Castillo ; A king of cups / Gregorio José Rodríguez Carrillo, Bishop of Cartagena ; Courting Papal anger : the "scandal" or Mortmain property / Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera ; Liberalism and sin / Anonymous, Rafael Uribe Uribe, and Andrés Botero ; Sabina, bring some candles and light to the Virgin / Albalucía Ángel ; Professions and festivities / Nereo López, Richard Cross, and Nina Sánchez de Friedemann ; We were not able to say that we were Jewish / Paul Hané ; As a Colombian, as a sociologist, as a Christian, and as a priest, I am a revolutionary / Camilo Torres Restrepo ; Who stole the chalice from Badillo's church? / Rafael Escalona ; Life is a Birimbí / Rodrigo Parra Sandoval ; Our lady of the assassins / Fernando Vallejo ; One woman's path to Pentecostal conversion / Elizabeth Brusco ; La ombligada / Sergio Antonio Mosquera ; Witness to impunity / Javier Giraldo, SJ --
III. City and country. Emptying the "storehouse" of Indian labor and goods / Anonymous ; To Santafé! to Santafé! / Anonymous ; Killing a jaguar / Jorge Isaacs ; The time of the slaves is over / Candelario Obeso ; A landowner's rules / Ángel María Caballero ; Muleteers on the road / Beatríz Helena Robledo ; Campesino life in the Boyacá highlands / Orlando Fals Borda ; One lowland town becomes a world : Gabriel García Márquez returning to Aracataca / Gabriel García Márquez ; The bricklayers : 1968 on film / Jorge Rufinelli ; Switchblades in the city / Arturo Álape, interview with Jesús ; Desplazado : "Now I am here as an outcast" / Anonymous ; An agrarian counterrreform / Luis Bernardo Flórez Enciso --
IV. Lived inequalities. Rules are issued for different populations : Indians, Blacks, Non-Christians / Anonymous ; The Marqués and Marquesa of San Jorge / Joaquín Gutiérrez ; An Indian nobleman petitions his king / Diego de Torres ; A captured maroon faces his interrogators / Francisco Angola ; Carrasquilla's characters : La Negra Narcissa, el Amito Martin, and Doña Bárbara / Tomás Carrasquilla ; Carried through the streets of Bogotá : grandmother's sedan chair / Eduardo Caballero Calderón ; The street-car Bogotá of new social groups : clerks, switchboard operators, pharmacists / Augusto Morales Pino ; It is a norm among us to believe that a women cannot act on her own criteria / María Cano ; I energetically protest in defense of truth and justice / Manuel Quintín Lame ; Bringing presents from abroad / Manuel Zapata Olivella ; Cleaning for other people / Anna Rubbo and Michael Taussig ; A feminist writer sketches the interior life and death of an upper-class woman / Marvel Moreno ; Barranquilla's first gay carnival queen / Gloria Triana, interview with Lino Fernando ; Romance tourism / Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel ; They are using me as cannon fodder / Flaco Flow and Melanina --
V. Violence. Captains and criminals / Juan Rodríguez Freile ; War to the death / Simón Bolívar ; A girl's view of war in the capital / Soledad Acosta de Samper ; Let this be our last war / José María Quijano Wallis ; The "silent demonstration" of February 7, 1948 / Jorge Eliécer Gaitán ; Dead bodies appear on the streets / Gustavo Álvarez Gardeazábal ; Cruelty acted as a stimulant / José Gutiérrez Rodríguez ; Two views of the National Front / Álvaro Gómez Hurtado and Ofelia Uribe de Acosta ; Starting points for the FARC and the ELN / Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia and Ejército de Liberación Nacional ; Where is Omaira Montoya? / María Tila Uribe and Francisco J. Trujillo ; We prefer a grave in Colombia to a cell in the United States / Los Extraditables ; A medic's life within a cocaine-fueled paramilitary organization / Diego Viáfara Salinas ; Carlos Castaño "confesses" / Mauricio Arangurén Molina ; The song of the flies / María Mercedes Carranza ; Kidnapped / Major General Luis Mendieta Ovalle ; Parapolitics / Claudia López and Óscar Sevillano ; Turning points in the Colombia conflict, 1960s-1990s / Joseph Fabry, James Mollison, Roberto Romero Ospina, Daniel Jiménez, El Espectador, and Ricardo Mazalán --
VI. Change and continuity in the Colombian economy. El Dorado / Fray Pedro Simón ; The conquest yields other treasures : potatoes, yucca, corn / Juan de Castellanos and Galeotto Cei ; Cauca's slave economy / Germán Colmenares ; A Jesuit writes to the king : profits from coca leaf could surpass tea / Antonio Julián ; Bogotá's market, ca. 1850 / Agustín Codazzi ; A banker invites other bankers to make money in Colombia / Phanor James Eder ; How many people were massacred in 1928? / Telegrams, American Legation in Bogotá and Consul in Santa Marta ; Strikers or revolutionaries? Strikers and revolutionaries? / Mauricio Archila Neira and Raúl Eduardo Mahecha ; Coffee and "social equilibrium" / Federación Nacional de Cafeteros ; Two views of a foreign mining enclave : the Chocó Pacífico / Patrick O'Neill and Aquiles Escalante ; Carlos Ardila Lülle : "How I got rich" / Particia Lara Salive and Jesús Ortíz Nieves ; The arrow / David Sánchez Juliao ; A portrait of drug "mules" in the 1990s / Alfredo Molano ; Luciano Romero : one among thousands of unionists murdered in Colombia / European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights and Peter Brabeck-Letmathe --
VII. Transnational Colombia. A Creole reads the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen / Antonio Nariño ; Humboldt's diary, May 1801 / Alexander von Humboldt ; The most practical, because the most brutal / José Asunción Silva ; Grandfather arrives from Bremen / Pedro Gómez Valderrama ; We were called "Turks" / Elías Saer Kayata ; Two presidents' views : "I took Isthmus" and "I was dispossessed, insulted, dishonored to no end" / Theodore Roosevelt and Marco Fidel Suárez ; Facing the Yankee enemy / José María Vargas Vila ; Bogotá's art scene in 1957 : "There is no room for any of the old servilism" / Marta Traba ; 1969 : the GAO evaluates money spent in Colombia / US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations ; Who was where during the Mapiripán massacre? / Ignacio Gómez Gómez ; A minga of voluntary eradication / Asociación Popular de Negros Unidos del Rio Yurumanguí (APONURY) ; Latin American ex-presidents push to reorient the War on Drugs / Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy ; A new export product : Yo soy Betty, la fea goes global / Yeidy Rivero ; Today we understand and say no / Lorenzo Muelas ; Toward a stable and enduring peace / Delegados del Gobierno de la República de Colombia (Gobierno Nacional) and Delegados del las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército del Pueblo.
