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Olancho: Honduras through the Looking Glass Paper Arrows

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"Olancho: Honduras through the Looking Glass" examines the fraught historical-geographical relationship between Olancho Department and the rest of Honduras. For centuries, representatives of the Honduran central state have framed Olancho as violent and uncultured. Olanchano peasants' stories bear the imprimatur of this injurious discourse, offering rejoinders that stake claims to their land and their values in terms that subvert the dominant narrative without breaking free of it.
This podcast is a serial and should be listened to from beginning to end. Please begin with Episode 1: Preface.
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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:
Works Cited
Acker, Alison. 1988. Honduras: the making of a banana republic. Boston: South End Press.
"Agitadores que reciben dólares del exterior causaron disturbios: Gautama." 2001. Tiempo, July 20, http://www.tiempo.hn/edicante/2001/julio/20%20julio/nacion~1/nacio5.htm.
Amaya, Miriam. 2000. "Honduras, el eslabón más débil de la integración." La Prensa, September 5, http://www.laprensahn.com/economarc/0009/e05001.htm.
Anderson, Benedict R. O'G. 1983. Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. London: Verso.
Arnold, David. 1996. The problem of nature: environment, culture and European expansion, New perspectives on the past. Oxford, Eng.; Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell.
"Banco Centroamericano congela préstamo para proyectos hidroeléctricos." 2001. La Prensa, July 30, http://www.laprensahn.com/natarc/0107/n30004.htm.
Blok, Anton. 1988 [1974]. The mafia of a Sicilian village, 1860-1960: a study of violent peasant entrepreneurs. Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press.
Bonner, Raymond. 1981. "Green Berets step up Honduras role." New York Times, August 9: 16.
Bonta, Mark Andrew. 2001. "Mapping enredos of complex spaces: a regional geography of Olancho, Honduras." PhD dissertation, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College.
"'Canuto' fue víctima de una venganza." 1992. La Tribuna, October 1: 50.
"'Canuto' había sembrado el terror en Olancho." 1992. Tiempo, October 1: 19.
"Cardenal Oscar Rodríguez: Si siguen las huelgas no vamos a tener inversión: El purpurado recibe homenaje de la Policía Nacional." 2001. Diario Tiempo, September 1, URL not functioning.
Cardona Solís, Oscar Manuel. 2001. Unpublished letter to Mary Flake de Flores, First Lady of Honduras, July 26.
Castillo, Hugo, and Victoria Asfura de Díaz. 2000. Letter, May 31, 2000.
"Centroamérica iniciará interconexión eléctrica en 1998." 1998. La Prensa, January 5, http://www.laprensahn.com/natarc/9801/n05002.htm.
"Ceremonia en el Congreso Nacional: embajador de Taiwan y periodista hondureña homenajeados." 2001. Tiempo, July 20, : http://www.tiempo.hn/edicante/2001/julio/20%20julio/nacion~1/nacional.htm.
Clastres, Pierre. 1987. Society against the state: essays in political anthropology. Translated by Abe Stein. New York: Zone Books; Cambridge: Distributed by the MIT Press.
COFADEH. 2001. "Voces contra el olvido." In Voces contra el olvido, edited by Bertha Oliva de Guifarro. Tegucigalpa.
Consejo Central para la Protección del Ambiente de Gualaco, Olancho. 2001. "Propuesta de organización del Concejo [sic] para la Protección del Ambiente de Gualaco, Olancho." Tegucigalpa.
Cresswell, Tim. 1996. In place/out of place : geography, ideology, and transgression. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Cruz, G. 1993. El Decreto 87-87: Ley de los Bosques Nublados, base legal para la conservación de los bosques nublados de Honduras. Edited by CONSEFOR, Serie Miscelánea de CONSEFORH....

"Olancho: Honduras through the Looking Glass" examines the fraught historical-geographical relationship between Olancho Department and the rest of Honduras. For centuries, representatives of the Honduran central state have framed Olancho as violent and uncultured. Olanchano peasants' stories bear the imprimatur of this injurious discourse, offering rejoinders that stake claims to their land and their values in terms that subvert the dominant narrative without breaking free of it.
This podcast is a serial and should be listened to from beginning to end. Please begin with Episode 1: Preface.
--
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:
Works Cited
Acker, Alison. 1988. Honduras: the making of a banana republic. Boston: South End Press.
"Agitadores que reciben dólares del exterior causaron disturbios: Gautama." 2001. Tiempo, July 20, http://www.tiempo.hn/edicante/2001/julio/20%20julio/nacion~1/nacio5.htm.
Amaya, Miriam. 2000. "Honduras, el eslabón más débil de la integración." La Prensa, September 5, http://www.laprensahn.com/economarc/0009/e05001.htm.
Anderson, Benedict R. O'G. 1983. Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. London: Verso.
Arnold, David. 1996. The problem of nature: environment, culture and European expansion, New perspectives on the past. Oxford, Eng.; Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell.
"Banco Centroamericano congela préstamo para proyectos hidroeléctricos." 2001. La Prensa, July 30, http://www.laprensahn.com/natarc/0107/n30004.htm.
Blok, Anton. 1988 [1974]. The mafia of a Sicilian village, 1860-1960: a study of violent peasant entrepreneurs. Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press.
Bonner, Raymond. 1981. "Green Berets step up Honduras role." New York Times, August 9: 16.
Bonta, Mark Andrew. 2001. "Mapping enredos of complex spaces: a regional geography of Olancho, Honduras." PhD dissertation, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College.
"'Canuto' fue víctima de una venganza." 1992. La Tribuna, October 1: 50.
"'Canuto' había sembrado el terror en Olancho." 1992. Tiempo, October 1: 19.
"Cardenal Oscar Rodríguez: Si siguen las huelgas no vamos a tener inversión: El purpurado recibe homenaje de la Policía Nacional." 2001. Diario Tiempo, September 1, URL not functioning.
Cardona Solís, Oscar Manuel. 2001. Unpublished letter to Mary Flake de Flores, First Lady of Honduras, July 26.
Castillo, Hugo, and Victoria Asfura de Díaz. 2000. Letter, May 31, 2000.
"Centroamérica iniciará interconexión eléctrica en 1998." 1998. La Prensa, January 5, http://www.laprensahn.com/natarc/9801/n05002.htm.
"Ceremonia en el Congreso Nacional: embajador de Taiwan y periodista hondureña homenajeados." 2001. Tiempo, July 20, : http://www.tiempo.hn/edicante/2001/julio/20%20julio/nacion~1/nacional.htm.
Clastres, Pierre. 1987. Society against the state: essays in political anthropology. Translated by Abe Stein. New York: Zone Books; Cambridge: Distributed by the MIT Press.
COFADEH. 2001. "Voces contra el olvido." In Voces contra el olvido, edited by Bertha Oliva de Guifarro. Tegucigalpa.
Consejo Central para la Protección del Ambiente de Gualaco, Olancho. 2001. "Propuesta de organización del Concejo [sic] para la Protección del Ambiente de Gualaco, Olancho." Tegucigalpa.
Cresswell, Tim. 1996. In place/out of place : geography, ideology, and transgression. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Cruz, G. 1993. El Decreto 87-87: Ley de los Bosques Nublados, base legal para la conservación de los bosques nublados de Honduras. Edited by CONSEFOR, Serie Miscelánea de CONSEFORH....

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