The Struggle for Power in Post-Independence Colombia and Venezuela by Matthew Brown (review)
Interestingly, the author notes that the assumption of a European/Indigenous perspectival dichotomy has led to the novel realization that natives might have felt a sense of familiarity and even ownership of colonial architectural concepts and designs. The latter observation presupposes shared vvorldviews or points of commonality in spite of visible differences, problematizing any essential reading equating race with culture, or worse yet, attributing an ahistorical or static state to natives via the suggestion of some kind of continuous, intact sensibility that stood uniformly immune from larger transcultural influences.