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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 >>

“Chicherias, the popular bars also run by mestizas, represented another source of concern. They were required to have a nearby source of running water and, to safeguard morality, chicherfas located in decent neighborhoods had to operate in inside patios. This would spare honest neighbors from witnessing scandalous scenes. Establishments that did not fulfill the sanitary […] read full post >>

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Still catching up on me blogs argggh (thats my pirate voice), The quote from Indigenous Mestizos I would like to focus on for this blog is “Last but not least, Arguedas was particularly worried about the female vendors’ appearance and their vestido de castilla, the typical mestiza dress, made of hand-woven wool. As the ‘favorite nesting material for bugs and filth [inmundicias] of all sorts, and as a permanent carrier of bacteria’ it should be covered by white, body-length aprons. The white fabric would facilitate the supervision of mestiza cleanliness.”...read more read full post >>

Reading 9 Death in the Andes read full post >>

Hi team. I had hella food poisoning when this blog post was due. But Jon told me “better late than never” so here is my post about Mariategui’s Seven Interpretive Essay’s. To be honest, I’m grateful to have been able to sit with Mariategui’s text a little longer before writing this blog post. One of […] read full post >>

When we were discussing Andean Lives together as a class, I remember someone, can’t remember who, saying that the people who’s lives are detailed in andean lives had essentially adopted a stoic philosophy. I found this to be a fascinating take, I was thinking a similar thing when I was initially reading the text but as I have thought about it more, I feel that this is not quite accurate.  The logic behind this person making this argument was essentially that, despite the miserable experiences these individuals had to endure,...read more read full post >>