Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Foreword ix
4. Preface xiii
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. Introduction 1
7. Part 1. Narrations, Life Stories, and Autobiographies
8. For Those Who Come After 10
9. The Anthropological Narrative as Dialogue 12
10. Life Stories, Biographies, and Autobiographies 14
11. Recovering the Subaltern Vision 17
12. Reality, Experience, and Expression: The Authorship of Oral Histories 19
13. Debates on Technique in Life Stories 22
14. Part 2. Juan Gregorio Palechor: Between the Community and the Nation
15. Identity and Ethnic Re-creation 28
16. Ethnicity as a Social Relation 35
17. The Limits of Diversity and Ethnic Recognition 37
18. Juan Gregorio Palechor: Between the Community and the Nation 44
19. Cauca, the Resguardo of Guachicono, and Indigenous Movements 54
20. Identity and the Struggle for the Resguardo 60
21. A Politics of Our Own and the Reinvention of Identity 65
22. Part 3. Juan Gregorio Palechor: The Story of My Life
23. Where I Come From: Five Generations of the Macizo Colombiano and Guachicono 76
24. Recognizing the Way of the World and Observing the Weather 78
25. Life on the Resguardo 80
26. Our Nervousness about School and What We Were Taught 88
27. The Harshness of Family Life and the Art of Agriculture 92
28. When I Was Conscripted 96
29. Learning New Things 102
30. Public Life and Political Violence 104
31. During the Violence, I Was Forced by Necessity to Work as a Tinterillo 110
32. The Formation of Community Action Committees: The Liberal Revolutionary Movement and the National Front 119
33. Religion, Money, and Politics 124
34. Working with the MRL and the Political Parties 131
35. The Management Class of the Catholic Religion 135
36. Looking for an Organization: The Campesino Association and the Indigenous Organization 138
37. My Work in CRIC 143
38. The Struggles of CRIC and Indigenous Traditions 148
39. Politiqueros and Their Empty Words 156
40. Why an Organization of Indigenous People? 158
41. Appendix: CRIC Documents 163
42. Glossary 191
43. Notes 195
44. References 215
45. Index 225