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Inti Raymi; ritual vs. theater
Posted by: jshoudy
I’m going to use this blog post as a sort of exercise – or practice round – for my position paper. In Indigenous Mestizos, De La Cadena pulls a quote from a guy named Turner (I forgot his first name and I don’t have the page number, but this is a blog post so I […] read full post >>
Ideological Infiltration: What Peru’s Past Can Teach Alberta’s Present
Posted by: Steven Townsend
(I hope this doesn’t come off as anti-socialist more anti-indoctrination) In the 1970s, a wave of Marxist-Leninist handbooks inundated Peruvian universities, profoundly shaping the educational landscape and contributing to the rise of the Shining Path. These handbooks, produced by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, embedded a strict, authoritarian ideology among students and faculty. […] read full post >>
Death in the Andes: The Perspectives of the Stories We Tell
Posted by: zyasmin
As I wanted to have some reading done for this course before my trip, I initially read Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa in early May. Of course, back then, I was trying to navigate the reading with very little context. I did not know what Sendero referred to, and for whatever reason […] read full post >>
Blog Post #10: The (weaponized) Politics of Race and Culture
Posted by: Grace Baker
“ ‘Refined’ (refinado) was the adjective used to refer to someone considered culto, having culture. Diametrically opposed to ignorance, and yet more significant, to coarseness and immorality, having culture implied being erudite, having delicate manners, and behaving according to the principles prescribed by the Catholic religion” When reading De la Cadena’s text, Indigenous Mestizos: The […] read full post >>
XII. Macchu Picchu
Posted by: adammah
There is a light in the valley: bodies gather from the horrible dark and find a couple, many-feathered and bright weaving a tapestry of song into the dead reality of night. There is a man at the door in a mask with golden eyes: better to burn the sacred gift than to let him redivine […] read full post >>
XI. Idiot Wind
Posted by: adammah
What kind of holdings could this nameless wisp of wind have? My daughter’s not interested in the lice this unknown drifter has got stockpiled away. (Mamani 38) Andean Lives brings together the testimonial narratives of Gregorio Condori Mamani and Asunta Quispe Huamán, an older Indigenous couple who have lived in the Andes all their lives. […] read full post >>
Disorganization, Democracy, Directly
Posted by: Gabrielmcameron
“Corruption and robbery are therefore impossible; the whole population is informed where the money goes. In this way, money is directed at what the population of the respective areas of the district needs. This means that, as the money received by the municipality is unjustly meagre, the inhabitants have decided to work collectively and without […] read full post >>
The In and Out of Inti Raymi
Posted by: morgan cooper
¨If the imagined Inkas are imagined as once-living, active individuals, then agency cannot be so easily denied their descendants, even those now called campesinos¨ (Dean 216) in Inka Bodies Dean argues that the presentation of Inti Raymi as increasingly “accurate”, as opposed to catering to the preconceptions of international tourists, advances the fight for campesino […] read full post >>
