{"id":102,"date":"2024-06-27T11:40:58","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T18:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lastjasmine\/?p=102"},"modified":"2024-06-27T11:40:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T18:40:58","slug":"week6-land-or-death-what-mariategui-wanted-to-say-but-didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lastjasmine\/2024\/06\/27\/week6-land-or-death-what-mariategui-wanted-to-say-but-didnt\/","title":{"rendered":"week6\u2014Land or Death! What Mariategui wanted to say\u2026 but did(n\u2019t)?\u2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

week6\u2014Land or Death! What Mariategui wanted to say\u2026 but did(n\u2019t)?\u2014<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

reading blog #10 \u2013 Hugo Blanco\u2019s We the Indians<\/em><\/p>\n

Reading Hugo Blanco\u2019s We the Indians <\/em>was like reading a less pretentious version of Garcilaso de la Vega\u2019s Royal Commentaries of the Inca<\/em>. Though both have their biases and influences, of course, but Blanco\u2019s writing isn\u2019t used as a (shaky, yet) foundational knowledge of the Incas or Peruvian campesinos. To be honest, I\u2019m not sure I understood everything that Blanco wrote about, I was mostly going along with the story. This guy got deported so many times.<\/p>\n

I liked Blanco\u2019s writing on land, communities, and ayllus. I felt it helped me piece together more aspects of the puzzle that is Peru and Peruvian history. If Mariategui was the theoretical, critical, more classically literary, and (somewhat) academic approach to the issue of land, community, and Indigeneity, then Blanco\u2019s writing is an action-oriented and experiential approach. Blanco\u2019s combat cry: \u201cland or death!\u201d is a pretty apt summary of his approach. At times, \u201cland or death!\u201d seems like what Mariategui wanted to say.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t said directly, but I think Blanco asserts what he thinks about the current state of Indigeneity through a few certain sentences in this passage:<\/p>\n

\u201cQuechua was stronger than the murderers; they could not kill it.\u201d (105)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe, the children of T\u00fapac Amaru, shook with rage and continued our long silent history of rebellions, struggling against the r\u00e9gime of estates.\u201d (106)<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026the ayllu is stronger than its enemies; it is in our blood.\u201d (106)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Perhaps, it is not everything, but these are the words that stood out to me.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not one for politics, or even knows an extensive amount about it, but I thought it was interesting the Blanco asserts that \u201cdemocracy is a cultural inheritance of ours; the community has governed itself for millennia\u2026\u201d and \u201c\u2026that the essence of the ayllu is democracy\u201d (108). The tension is fascinating, because Blanco also slanders the inventors of democracy, the Greeks\u2014of which I agree with him, but the conflict still stands.<\/p>\n

The re-shaping and changing of the ayllus was also interesting. It seems to me that the form and enactment of ayllus is much like that of Indigeneity, subject to change throughout time yet the core of it still somehow remains original and true to the source. (This is perhaps a broad statement to make, but here we are\u2026)<\/p>\n

This changing of how ayllus operate and function in light of the \u2018legalizing\u2019 of it, or institutionalizing of it was interesting. I think this is true of many things. It kind of reminded me of how harm reduction facilities were something put on by grassroots organizations, despite the (un)helpfulness of the governing body at the time. But now, the discourse and methods have been institutionalized and eaten by government entities and bureaucracy. Perhaps, in these different ayllus, there is also a kind of tension between mediating tradition and government.<\/p>\n

How did you read the role of ayllus in the un\/making of Indigeneity?<\/p>\n

These are all my thoughts right now. Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

week6\u2014Land or Death! What Mariategui wanted to say\u2026 but did(n\u2019t)?\u2014 reading blog #10 \u2013 Hugo Blanco\u2019s We the Indians Reading Hugo Blanco\u2019s We the Indians was like reading a less pretentious version of Garcilaso de la Vega\u2019s Royal Commentaries of the Inca. Though both have their biases and influences, of course, but Blanco\u2019s writing isn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,74,72],"tags":[76,77,75],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hugo-blanco","category-we-the-indians","category-week6","tag-blanco","tag-we-the-indians","tag-week6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lastjasmine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lastjasmine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lastjasmine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lastjasmine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lastjasmine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lastjasmine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lastjasmine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lastjasmine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lastjasmine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lastjasmine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}