Counter-banditry, or Narratives of Otherness Paper Arrows

Episode III: Counter-banditry, or Narratives of Otherness
In today’s podcast, we travel together to Olancho to hear campesinos’ tales of the Robin Hood of Honduras, Canuto. As villagers tell it - both those who knew him and those who did not, but who build upon his legend and legacy - Canuto was a magical trickster and a powerful ally of the poor. If we listen to these stories with a careful ear, we can hear the strains of a song of resistance, sung by folks across the Olancho countryside, that tacitly reject the dominant narratives projected upon everyday Olanchanos by dominant-society actors and framings. These stories, and the circumstances surrounding their production, swirl with complexities and contradictions, and they bespeak a power imbalance perhaps too great to be overcome with mere words. But these are fighting words, invoked by a spirited people, and they signal that community lands and livelihoods will not so easily be surrendered.
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I owe a great intellectual debt to my research participants as well as to many journalists, historians, and social-science researchers. In the podcast, I sometimes shorthand the fuller citations contained in the written version of my master's thesis. Here, however, are the works I cite in that volume:
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