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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 >>

How does one, so simple and small as I, sum up a course as great and grand as this one? How does one categorize an experience which was so varied? Trying to look back and reflect on the course as a whole feels like I’m standing in the middle of a lake and  trying to […] read full post >>

“The flip side of this phrase was that well-off common folk who lacked the symbolic capital that a university degree represented did not have access to the social status that their high income could have otherwise granted them” (de la Cadena 49). Is this not still extremely true today? Even us as a group subscribe […] read full post >>

Quote from Indigenous Mestizos “Helen Callaway has suggested that in the nineteenth century images of the exoticized, colonized woman emerged as a nexus of erotica, fantasy, desire, and pleasure and was always shadowed by the fear of unknown risks, pollution, disruption, degeneration, and destruction (1993:34).” (pg 203) read full post >>

Reading Blog One sentence that stood out to me a lot from How Difficult It Is To Be God by Carlos Iván Degregori is: “History is a process without a Subject or a Goal,” Althusser is said tohave stated in his polemic with John Lewis. I think that there are so many layers to this […] read full post >>