Colombia: Amazon Region
(see also Colombia: Indigenous History, Life & Values, Colombia: Drug Wars 1980-Present, Peru: Amazon Region, Ecuador: Amazon Region & Brazil: Amazon Region)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
Adams, Dale. "Rural migration & agricultural development in Colombia," Economic Development & Cultural Change 17 (1964):527-40.
Allen, Paul E. "Indians of Southeastern Colombia," Geographical Review 37 (1947):567-82.
Alvarado, J.N. "Considerations on the Colombian Amazon region," in S.B. Hecht (ed.) Amazonia: Agriculture & Land Use Research (Cali, 1982), pp. 41-59.
Anon. "Colombia: indigenous communities caught in a web of warfare," IWGIA Newsletter 46 (7/86):33-38.
Bonilla, Victor Daniel. "El despertar de la selva: principales aspectos de la colonización del Caquetá," Tierra 2 (1966):1-80.
Bunyard, Peter. "Guardians of the forest: indigenous policies in the Colombian Amazon," Ecologist 19,6 (11-12/89):255-58.
Camacho, R.P. "La gente del hacha: breve historia de la tecnología según una tribu amazónica," Revista Colombiana de Antropología 18 (1975):435-78.
Domínguez, C.A. "National expansion & development policies in the Colombian Amazon," in Schmink & Wood (eds.) Frontier Expansion in Amazonia (Gainesville: U. of Florida, 1984), pp. 405-18.
Eden, M.J. "Ecology & land development: the case of the Amazonian rainforest," Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 3,4 (1978):444-63.
__________. "A traditional agro-ecosystem in the Amazon region of Colombia," in J.I. Furtado (ed.) Tropical Ecology & Development, vol. 1 (Kuala Lumpur, 1980), pp. 509-14.
__________ & A. Andrade. "Ecological aspects of swidden cultivation among the Andoke & Witoto Indians of the Colombian Amazon," Human Ecology 15 (1987):39-59.
__________ & A. Andrade. "Colonos, agriculture & adaptation in the Colombian Amazon," Journal of Biogeography 15 (1988):79-85.
Guzmán, M.J. "Los Andokes: historia, conciencia étnica y explotación del caucho," Universitas Humanística (Bogotá) 2 (1971):53-97.
Kirby, J. "Colombian land-use change & the settlement of the Oriente," Pacific Viewpoint 19 (1978):1-25.
Laverde, Carla Fernanda Matallana y Jon Schackt. "Los Jurumi: historia oral de una tribu del rio Miritiparaná de la cuenca amazonica," in Jorna y otros (coords.) Etnohistoria del Amazonas (Quito, 1991), pp. 153-81.
Mora de Jaramillo, Yolanda. "Desarrollo de la navegación y el comercio por los rios del sur de Colombia," in Pineda y Alazate (comps.) Los meandros de la historia en Amazonia (Quito, 1990), pp. 303-28.
Oostra, Menno. "El blanco en la tradición oral: historia e ideología de contacto en el Mirití-Paraná," in Jorna y otros (coords.) Etnohistoria del Amazonas (Quito, 1991), pp. 29-44.
__________. "Las máscaras del poder: flexibilidad y alianzas en Amazonia," in M.S. Cipolletti (coord.) Resistencia y adaptación nativas en las tierras bajas latinoamericanas (Quito, 1997), pp. 365-90.
Ortiz, Sutti. "The transformation of Guaviare in Colombia: immigrating peasants & their struggles," in F. Barbira-Scazzocchio (ed.) Land, People & Planning in Contemporaria Amazonia (Cambridge, 1980), pp. 194-205.
__________. "Colonization in the Colombian Amazon," in Schmink & Wood (eds.) Frontier Expansion in Amazonia (Gainesville: U. of Florida, 1984), pp. 204-30.
Stoddard, D.R. & J.D. Trubshaw. "Colonization in action in Eastern Colombia," Geography 47, 214 (1962):47-53. Sierra Nevada del Cocuy since 1940.
Townsend, Janet. "Perceived world of the colonists of tropical rainforest Colombia," Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2,4 (1977):430-58.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Acevedo, Valmore y otros. Planas, o la destrucción de la nación indígena (Bogotá: Oveja Negra, 1971).
Bonilla, Victor Daniel. Siervos de Dios y amos de indios (Servants of God or Masters of Men? The Story of a Capuchin Mission in Amazonia) (Bogotá, 1969; English trans. Rosemary Sheed; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972).
Crist, Raymond E. & Charles M. Nissly. East from the Andes (Gainesville: U. of Florida, 1973).
Eden, Michael J. Ecology & Land Management in Amazonia (London, 1990).
INCORA. La colonización en Colombia: una evaluación del proceso (Bogotá, 1973).
McDowell, John Holmes. Sayings of the Ancestors: The Spiritual Life of the Sibundoy Indians (Lexington, 1989).
Ortiz, Sutti R. de. Uncertainties in Peasant Farming: A Colombian Case (NY, 1973).
Pérez Arbelaez, Enrique. Amazonia (Bogotá, 1969). Chronicles of economic, social & environmental change in 40s, 50s & 60s.
In the Library: Fiction
Rivera, José Eustacio. La vorágine (NY: Andes, 1929).