Books by Mónica Lucía Espinosa Arango

La civilización montés: la visión india y el trasegar de Manuel Quintín Lame en Colombia
Editorial Universidad de Los Andes (Departamento de Antropología - CESO), 2009
The book examines historical and ethnographic information concerning the life, history, and traditions of the Andoque people or the "People of the Ax" from the Colombian Amazonia. The book analyzes the workings of power relations and the challenges that Andoque people have faced throughout their modern history. It pays especial attention to the way in which they responded to conflicts by resorting to their ritual system, myths, chants and dancing, which transformed their authority and power system. The book follows the history of a cultural struggle in which fear and happiness, anger and challenges, violence and change are interwoven, showing the rhythm of creation put into motion by the Andoque people.
Editorial Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1995
Articles by Mónica Lucía Espinosa Arango
Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 2022
peoples’ active participation as ‘demos’ in Colombia´s modern polity
and democratic politics. Despite a long-term pattern of nonrecognition,
their ‘against-the-grain democracy’ emerges from sedimented
experiences of collectivism and intercultural experimentalism. The
resulting indigenous politics expands the horizon of commonality
and calls for new interpretations of the political. This work is based on
long-term research on twentieth-century ideas and political texts by
Nasa, Misak, and Pijao pueblos, on an examination of their leaders´
biographies, and on my extensive research on Manuel Quintín Lame
´s twentieth-century social movement leadership. I examine the interdependency
of popular republicanism and struggles for citizenship
that began in the nineteenth century, with the dynamics of collectivism
and commonality that converge in the strong grassroots, indigenous-
oriented politics of the twentieth century. My analysis is
enlightened by Sheldon Wolin´s interpretations of democracy, commonality,
elemental politics, the liberal dilemmas of recognition, and
Cristina Roja´s reflections on nonrecognition.
Anthropological Theory, 2021
Entrevista a Gary Kildea ocurrida en Bogotá en el 2009, en colaboración con Juana Schlenker
El indio lobo: Manuel Quintín Lame en la Colombia moderna
Book chapters by Mónica Lucía Espinosa Arango
Entre el tiempo de páramo y la atmósfera del posconflicto en Colombia: una antropología de la vida en el volcán-páramo Doña Juana
Vitalidades: etnografías en los límites de lo humano, 2022
Introducción al libro "El poder en plural: entre la antropología y la teoría política"
The Archaeology and Anthropology of Lanscape, Peter J. Ucko and Robert Layton, eds., Jan 1999
Nina S. de Friedemann: cronista de disidencias y resistencias, 2009