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
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America. 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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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
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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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“Arts 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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The idea of a contact zone and a community is distinct from one another‚ yet they can both be used to define the characteristics of the same group. Mary Louise Pratt believes that communities are often seen as the more dominant viewpoint to the general public but she also argues that we need to develop ways to understand the differences of culture and grasp the idea of transculturation through the contact zone. A single group should always be viewed from both community and contact zone points of
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“Perhaps the greatest Utopia would be to realize that no Utopia is possible.” -Jack Carroll Growing up in Brooklyn Park‚ Minnesota‚ one would notice that the two dominant races that occupied the city were the blacks and the whites. Being a part of the black community‚ I had always thought it was a very close knit one. In elementary school‚ all my friends were black‚ I wanted to marry a black man‚ and have black kids. I talked black‚ acted black‚ even dressed black. I didn’t have a problem
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Spaniards but in a rather somber tone‚ to depict the expansion hungry side of the Europeans. Again the Europeans are shown conquering new land. Guaman Poma de Ayala‚ a bilingual Quechua Indian‚ angrily informs King Philip the III about the overpowering Europeans who have taken control of the Indians‚ and are ruining the labor force and Indian nobility. As told by Guaman‚ the Europeans are attempting to conquer Indian land as well. Conquest and expansion proved to be one of the driving causes behind European
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Both the Aztecs and the Incas demonstrated outstanding cultural‚ intellectual‚ and religious developments in their societies. These Empires maintained a high level of cultural development due to their social‚ architectural‚ and religious aspects. The social effects of the Aztec and Incan Empires clearly emphasized the amazing cultural development that occurred there. The Mendoza Codex (Document 1) is an example that shows the daily activities and customs of the Aztec society. It shows the type
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story of 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
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