Key Concepts

The following are some of the key concepts and/or figures that we cover in this course. We may add more as we go along.

  • history
  • anthropology
  • literature
  • sociology
  • politics
  • religion
  • syncretism
  • hybridity
  • place
  • space
  • materiality
  • fantasy
  • conquest
  • colonization
  • extractivism
  • letrados
  • literacy
  • the law
  • violence
  • protest
  • insurrection
  • Indigeneity
  • race
  • gender
  • campesinos
  • subalternity
  • decolonial / decolonization
  • anticolonial
  • memory
  • tradition
  • family
  • the ideal
  • the real
  • order
  • performance
  • mimicry
  • spectacle
  • clothing/dress
  • sound
  • music
  • affect
  • commodification
  • gentrification
  • tourism