week3—Garcilaso’s Kernel of Inca; Excess, Essence, and the Capture of Time— reading blog #5 – Garcilaso’s Royal Commentaries of the Inca I really enjoyed this reading. To be honest, I felt Garcilaso’s writing captured what was missing for me in Poma’s writing. Even though the Garcilaso’s intention may be more ‘scientifically-detaied-oriented’, I feel it has […]
week3—Cain the City-Founder; Adaptation for the Andes— reading blog #4 – Guaman Poma’s “The First New Chronicle and Good Government” Saints and sainthood really confuses me. I think these past few texts have really been challenging me on what I thought I knew about Christianity and religion. I previously thought I knew a lot, given […]
week2–a Goblin yet again, 2nd experience blog– experience blog #2 content warning: puking, hospital, medical stuff, Jesus. I feel I have not been keeping track of the days. Being sick twice will do that to you, I guess. I spoke too soon, in regard to my other blogpost, I was indeed a goblin again. My […]
week2—conflicts, material dimensions, and a late blog— Just as a precursor, I’ve been trying to do the readings in a very weird and sickly state, so I feel I didn’t grasp them all. In all honesty, it was not enjoyable. I didn’t quite understand most of the readings from the Peru Reader, though I did […]
week1—a Goblin but no longer; experiences of first days— My first few days in Peru have been long and eventful. As many of you know or might’ve heard, I was feeling quite sicky-icky for the first bit of our trip. I fell asleep on the waiting seats at the LUM and eventually made my way […]
week1–front-Faced Order; Chaos in the Periphery– I think one of my first takeaways from this reading was that there was this fixation with enacting order and ordaining it through the jurisdiction of letters—this obsession with order is arguably one that demands that urban society be neat and tidy, done through due process, and compulsively bureaucratic. […]
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week0–introduction–
hey everyone, this is my introduction post. My name is Jasmine. I’m going into interdisciplinary studies for romance studies, ancient mediterranean & near eastern studies, and anthropology. Essentially, I am just studying a mish-mash of things related to arts… (who knows at this point). I’ve had a bit of an unorthodox schooling trajectory so I’m […]