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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 >>

The academic repudiation of biological notions of race was significant for anthropology, as it meant the emergence of the concept of “ethnic groups” to explain human differences. As Stolcke has suggested, it implied the reification of culture, which thus potentially prolonged the naturalization of sociohistorical differences earlier contained in the European notion of biological race. […] read full post >>

Experience blog For my first blog post, it was spring in Vancouver. Then it was winter in Peru. Now it’s summer in Vancouver. Thank you for travelling through places and seasons with me 🙂 I had a wonderful last 2 hours in Pisac, it was a jolly ol’ time. But, unbeknownst to me, I was […] read full post >>

AHHHHH eegads, I have fumbled yet again, woe is me. I AM A BLOG POST SHORT AND DID NOT REALIZE (perhaps two blog posts, I am not a numbers guy, never have been, never claimed to be), anyway let’s cut to the blog post, enough dilly dallying, tom foolery and other such silly acts of idling. The quote I would like to focus on for this final blog post is from “How Difficult It Is To Be God” by Carlos Iván Degregori: “To this deception, which goes back to the...read more read full post >>

Reading blog 10 Indigenous Mestizos read full post >>

Reading blog A sentence that stood out to me from Death in the Andes by Vargas Llosa is: “It isn’t race that separates us, it’s an entire culture,” la petite Michéle reminded him. This sentence instantly struck me and it took me back to Indigenous Mestizos by de la Cadena. The reflection between this sentence in […] read full post >>

Some final thoughts on the trip 🙂 read full post >>