Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. About the Series vii
4. Preface to the Duke Edition ix
5. List of Illustrations xvii
6. Preface xxiii
7. 1. Introduction: Interpreting the Past 1
8. PART I. The Creation of a Chiefly Ideology: Nasa Historical Thought under Spanish Rule
9. 2. The Rise of the Colonial Cacique 31
10. 3. The Birth of the Myth: Don Juan Tama y Calambas 61
11. PART II. From Colony to Republic: Cacique and Caudillo
12. 4. The Chiefdom Transformed: The Nineteenth-Century Nasa 87
13. 5. From Sharecropper to Caudillo: Manuel Quintin Lame 117
14. PART III. Contemporary Historical Voices
15. 6. The Cacique Reborn: The TwentiethCentury Nasa 141
16. 7. Julio Niquinas, a Contemporary Nasa Historian 175
17. 8. Conclusion: Narrative and Image in a Textual Community 197
18. Glossary 209
19. Notes 211
20. References 221
21. Index 241