En guerra con el pasado

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A punto de que Colombia fuera un Estado fallido, ¿cómo llegaron a ser los colombianos normativamente pluriculturales? Vistas en un marco global, ¿qué características sellaron sus experiencias básicas a lo largo de dos siglos de existencia independentista? La solución de esos interrogantes sirve de excusa al autor de este libro para el escrutinio detallado de los íconos culturales unidos al mito originario de los colombianos, cuya ley de circulación circular coartó el surgimiento de lo nuevo, y del mito cultural de la Atenas suramericana, con que se intentó compensar el fracaso en...

Junto con (Trans)formaciones del Estado en los márgenes de Latinoamérica (2011) y Formas reales de la dominación del Estado (2014) Este volumen conforma una trilogía destinada a la comprensión del poder y lo político mediante estudios socioantropológicos e históricos que abordan diversos niveles y dimensiones del Estado. En dichos estudios, éste nunca aparece a priori como un objeto conceptual o empírico, sino, acaso, como una máscara de las relaciones de dominación, una representación colectiva heterogénea o una malograda pretensión unificadora del funcionamiento del poder....