Jesús Arango Cano
dr. Jesús Arango Cano | |
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Born | Armenia, Quindío, Colombia | June 21, 1915
Nationality | Colombian |
Known for | Archaeology, anthropology, folklore |
Spouse | Marina Montoya |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Archaeology, anthropology |
Jesús Arango Cano (21 June 1915 – 9 January 2015) was a Colombian
Biography
Arango Cano was born in
In the 1940s Arango Cano became consul for Colombia in São Paulo, Brazil[4] and Undersecretary of International Relations.[3][4]
Arango Cano has written more than fifty books of which 40 are published. His first two books were Inmigración para Colombia, published in 1951, and Inmigración y Colonización en la Gran Colombia in 1953.[3][4]
In 1965 Arango published his book Mitos, leyendas y dioses chibchas, about the
region in central Colombia where he was born.In the 1970s, Arango Cano followed his father and became an archaeologist.[3][4] In 1974 his work Las esmeraldas sagradas: el tesoro de Furatena about Furatena, mythological figure for the Muzo people was published.
On May 23, 1980, Arango Cano together with other historians founded the Academia de Historia del Quindío.[1]
Jesús Arango Cano has published mainly in Spanish and also in English and German.[6]
Arango Cano died in
Works
This list is a selection.[6][7][8]
Books
- 1996 - Cuentos y relatos de la vida real
- 1991 - Fantasías del corazón
- 1989 - Mitología en América precolombina : México-aztecas, Colombia-chibchas, Perú-incas
- 1987 - Las dos caras de Estados Unidos
- 1976 - Cerámica quimbaya y calima
- 1974 - Las esmeraldas sagradas: el tesoro de Furatena
- 1971 - Cuentos y anécdotas de mi tierra
- 1969 - Diálogos cafeteros
- 1962 - Capitalismo, comunismo y libertad
- 1959 - Estados Unidos, mito y realidad
- 1957 - La industria mundial del cafe
- 1955 - Geografía física y económica de Colombia
- 1953 - Inmigración y colonización en la Grancolombia
Articles
- 2000 - Y hablando de ortografía
- 1999 - En defensa de la gramática y a propósito de la "ch" y la "ll"
- 1997 - Cervantes, don Quijote y el amor
- 1979 - La dimensión espacial de la crisis en España
See also
- List of Muisca scholars
- Muisca
References
- ^ a b (in Spanish) En memoria de un gran quindiano
- ^ (in Spanish) Biography Jesús Arango Cano
- ^ a b c d (in Spanish) Murió Jesús Arango Cano: el más prolífico escritor quindiano
- ^ a b c d e (in Spanish) Más de 50 libros escribió el extinto escritor Jesús Arango Cano
- ^ Arango Cano, 1965
- ^ a b List of works by Jesús Arango Cano - WorldCat
- ^ (in Spanish) List of books by Jesús Arango Cano
- ^ (in Spanish) List of articles by Jesús Arango Cano
Notable works by Arango Cano
- Arango Cano, Jesús. 2004 (1965). Mitos, leyendas y dioses chibchas - Muisca myths, legends and gods, 1-167. Accessed 2016-07-08.