Where I Come From – Elizabeth Brewster Summary Elizabeth Brewster’s Where I Come From talks about the place where she spent some of her life and contrasts it with the place to which she belonged. We are all shaped by the places where we have lived – not just the places we come from but also the places where we have lived. The first stanza describes the city where everything in shining and new and impersonal. There are very distinct smells in the city and none of them very nice. Even the tulip does
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barbeque sauce when you always grab ketchup. Some contact zones may have a more influential role in our lives than others. In Pratt’s essay she discusses how her children learned how to write and read by buying and collecting baseball cards and how Guaman Poma an Incan man whose life drastically changed when the spanish came to South America. Pratt proves that contact zones exist and that some may have a positive or negative consequence. Pratt’s first example of a contact zone is one that affected her personally
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Therefore‚ autoethnography is not self-representation‚ but a collaboration of mixed ideas and values form both the dominant and subordinate cultures. Pratt provides many examples of autoethnography throughout her essay‚ including two texts by Guaman Poma and her son‚ Manuel. Although very different in setting‚ ideas‚ and time periods‚ they both accomplish the difficult goal of cross-cultural communication. When two cultures collide in the same area often if not always a conflict occurs. The conflict
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which clergymen like Pablo José Arriaga supported; the other half of the debate was that the natives should be allowed to keep their idols and implement or syncretize them into their christian faith‚ this side being supported by the like of Fransisco Poma or pro-native monks like Bartolomé de las Casas. The best way to learn of the two sides of the argument is by following two of the
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This cultural integration was a heavy component to how Guaman Poma was able to elevate and argue the status of Inca descendants in Spanish Colonial America‚ which is clearly exhibited in Guaman Poma’s First New Chronicle. The first task is understanding who Guaman Poma is. Guaman Poma was born in the Spanish colonial system around the 1550’s‚ and was raised by parents that had years of experience with the colonial ways. Guaman Poma himself never went to Spain‚ but only knew of the Spanish ways
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There are a wide range of sources‚ from writers of different backgrounds‚ such as Don Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala and Don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora‚ which bring
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Guaman Poma and his letter to King Phillip III. Poma‚ in his letter‚ tells the king his criticisms of the Spanish conquest in South America. Pratt labels Poma’s letter an autoethnographic text. Which is a text “in which people undertake to describe themselves in ways that engage with representations others have made of them”(487). What Pratt means by her description is that Poma is describing himself and his people to the king‚ with the representations that the conquerors gave them. Poma tells the
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of the Contact Zone‚” she uses terms‚ such as autoethnography and transculturation‚ to help demonstrate the reasoning of her ideas. The main force of this essay is to explain how the various sections‚ such as Pratt’s son’s baseball cards and Guaman Poma‚ support Pratt’s argument. Pratt starts her speech by sharing her son’s experience which about collecting baseball cards. She points out that her son learned more than just baseball through those cards‚ those baseball cards gave her son the chance
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it? Stratovolcano in the Virunga Mountains associated with the Albertine Rift. 3. Where: Where is the volcano located? It is located inside Virunga National Park‚ . 4. in the Democratic Republic of the Congo‚ about 20 km north of the town of Goma and Lake Kivu and just west of the border with Rwanda. 5. Where did the people move for safety? Rwanda‚ fled from the city 6. When: When did it erupt? 18th of January 2002 at approximately 9.30 am 7. Why: Why did it erupt? Tectonic plate’s
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lace-up shoes. GOMA is Queensland’s paramount modern art gallery‚ it boasts Australian and international exhibitions that showcase works from a diverse range of historical and contemporary artists. Alongside the Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) these two galleries offer distinct‚ yet complementary experiences and presents engaging and interactive exhibitions and events for visitors of all ages and the cinemas at GOMA features films by influential and popular film makers and artists. Although GOMA does not
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