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incribing oral tradition
Posted by: annie
oh how i long to take a lstroll with garcilaso de la vega read full post >>
Garcilaso versus Guaman, and other thoughts
Posted by: jshoudy
I was absolutely fascinated by Garcilaso’s commentary on the Inkas! I’d read bits and pieces of the text in other courses, but never as extensively as this. It was so awesome. As I read, I was subconsciously scanning for elements of Guaman Poma, as they are somewhat similar (chronicling from a mestizo perspective); pushing Catholicism, […] read full post >>
V: Conditions
Posted by: adammah
A couple days ago, standing upon Sacsayhuamán overlooking Cusco, stretching my eyes to the clouds in the distance, I felt awake in a certain way for the first time in a long time. I was on top of the distant mountains I looked to and overcome with strong sensory impressions like those I experienced all […] read full post >>
IV: Sound and Light in Deep Rivers
Posted by: adammah
José María Arguedas’ novel Deep Rivers follows a fourteen-year-old boy named Ernesto who, like the author, has Spanish and Indigenous Andean cultural roots. Through the course of the novel Ernesto confronts the complexity of Andean society and comes to assert his place in it. When he visits the Plaza de Armas in Cusco for the […] read full post >>
Blog Post #5: A Colonial Uncovering
Posted by: Grace Baker
I was excited to read a text this week that elaborated more into Inca culture and social structure. I thought that the Garcilaso de la Vega reading provided some historical context that really helped situate me into the contents of other texts that we have read thus far. I especially enjoyed reading the Inca creation […] read full post >>
Oral Histories
Posted by: Steven Townsend
I started reading “The Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of the Incas” by Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca, and at first, I felt like I was reading the Bible. The origin stories of the Inca, while strikingly different, felt very similar in their depiction. It is hard not to be captivated […] read full post >>
figuring out Garcilaso (reading blog 5)
Posted by: lotte
I wasn’t really sure what to expect from Garcilaso and his general history but I found it quite fun. The way he writes is very interesting but I can see that it is not an unbiased take at all. I was reminded of Guaman Poma and his First Chronicle while I was reading. Like with […] read full post >>
