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The Social Construction of the Manifestations of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Bogota. A Search Through the Local Press (1810-1948)
The article presents a set of stories that serve as documentary sources to characterize the ways of being, the manifestations and the practices of the Bogota citizens for the nineteenth century and the first half of the ...
Republican devotions: The changing shape of the polity in early nineteenth century Colombia
The article shows that the Republic was a pivotal reference point in the political language of early nineteenth-century Colombia. By articulating old and new meanings, the Republic allows us to discuss the possibilities ...
Technical education in England, Germany and France in the nineteenth century : a comparison
(Editorial Universidad del RosarioUniversidad del Rosario. Facultad de Economía, 2002)
This paper describes the developments of technical education in England, Germany, and France during the nineteenth century, contrasting their similarities and differences. It also analyses the role of the State in the ...
Sailboats and steamboats, speed and deception. A socio-technical analysis of the transformations in maritime navigation in the process of abolishing the Atlantic slave trade during the nineteenth century
(Univ Los Andes, Fac Ciencias SocBogotaColombia, 2011)
Typhoid fever in nineteenth-century Colombia: Between medical geography and bacteriology
This paper analyses how the Colombian medical elites made sense of typhoid fever before and during the inception of bacteriological ideas and practices in the second half of the nineteenth century. Assuming that the identity ...
Miguel perdomo neira: healing, culture and power in the nineteenth-century andes
(Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1997)
In late April, 1872, the curandero (healer) Miguel Perdomo Neira arrived in Bogotá amid widespread rumors that he had come to heal the terminally ill, or lead conservatives in rebellion. The lay healer had traveled from ...