Blogs

This post is way late. But after a week of reflection (in my overheating apartment) in Vancouver, I feel I should share some final thoughts in order to conclude this blog.  When I think back upon the beginning of this experience, I reflect on the end of the first week in Lima: I marvelled to […] read full post >>

Can’t believe that this is my last experience blog but it is. It feels like we just landed in Lima a few days ago to start this trip. In the past 6 weeks we have experienced so much. It’s hard for me to believe I actually did everything I did and saw all the places […] read full post >>

While in Peru, we spent more time in the small town (about 10,000 inhabitants) of Pisac than in any other place–almost three weeks, or just under half our time in the country. This was because originally we were thinking of … Continue reading → read full post >>

While in Peru, we spent more time in the small town (about 10,000 inhabitants) of Pisac than in any other place–almost three weeks, or just under half our time in the country. This was because originally we were thinking of … Continue reading → read full post >>

week6—endings; the making and unmaking of [insert something profound here]— experience blog #6 – Last days in Peru. Where do I begin? At this point, I am back in Vancouver and I have never felt cleaner or slept better than in the last 12 hours. Even given that, I would sacrifice this level of clean […] read full post >>

week6—one more thing off the to-do list— reading blog #11 – Mark Rice’s Making Machu Picchu  “The historian Alberto Flores Galindo once observed that Peruvians are often “in search of an Inca” to forge symbols of a new Peru.15 Perhaps it is time we lent attention to the influence of tourists also in search of […] read full post >>

I’ve got nothing serious and final to say. Right now, I am on a flight back home to Vancouver—34 minutes until I land! I’ve been sick these past couple of days since the course has been over and I’ve been staying in Lima. It feels right that I started and ended the trip in sickness. […] read full post >>

The hacendados or bosses claimed that the real exploiters were the arrendires; this was false, since the sum of the days that the relatives had to work for the arrendires was smaller than the days that the latter had to work for the bosses; the relatives worked on behalf of the arrendire on the landowner’s […] read full post >>

At the core of this lies an analytical vacuum. He does not see that there are people rebelling in other ways. (Degregori 85) I found Carlos Iván Degregori’s claim that Abimael Guzmán, in his eventual pursuit of the Marxist Idea instead of Marxist analysis, crucially missed other forms of social mobilization quite significant. Degregori argues […] read full post >>

We are not satisfied to assert the Indian’s right to education, culture, progress, love, and heaven. We begin by categorically asserting his right to land. (Maríategui 50) In his Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality, José Carlos Maríategui argues that the problem of the Indian is essentially socio-economic. He disputes any attempt to reduce it […] read full post >>