“In my opinion, this lack of research, which led to speculation and misrepresentation regarding Sendero’s armed violence and the counterinsurgency response by the government was related to various factors, including surprise, fragmentation, postcolonial distancing, and fear” (Degregori 37). Thus far, we have been the recipients of two separate lectures on this time in Peru’s […]
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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 […]
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(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. […]
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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 […]
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“ ‘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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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“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 […]
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A not so Sacred Valley of the Dolls
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