wearing dresses. As well as women‚ the men had standards. It was very common for both men and women to have their hair cut short. The Incas also believed that the sun was a god. They named the sun Viracocha. In the artifact Inca Sun Worship (Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala)‚ a worshipper and a sun are shown.
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baseball cards. Later on‚ Pratt relates a story about Guaman Poma and his manuscript. She states that the essay was hard to read and very ungrammatical. This shows that he‚ also‚ was uneducated due to the fact that he couldn’t write properly. Like Poma’s inability to be literate‚ the Incas weren’t literate either. A passage in the book states that the Incas weren’t able to read what Poma had written. Granted part of this reason is because Poma couldn’t write correctly‚ but even if he could‚ the Incas
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The Role of The Kuraka During The Spanish Conquest During the Spanish conquest of the Incan Empire the role of the Kuraka was crucial in gaining control over the Andean society. The role of the Kuraka could be thought of as “provincial nobility”[1] whose main job was to control the labor and tribute made and delivered from the natives to the state. In order to do this job the Kurakas had to maintain respect from the natives while maintaining good relations with the colonial state. This could
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In Mary Louise Pratt’s words of “Arts of the Contact Zone”‚ a community is “held together by a homogeneous competence or grammar shared identically and equally among all the members.” (493) What she means by that is we all share the same traits. I am a member of the aviation community of The University of North Dakota. It consists of about 1‚200 students and was started in 1968 by John D. Odegard. The department employs over 30 faculty members and offers the aviation education of your preferred
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indigenous peoples‚ as reflected for instance in Bartolomé de las Casas’s Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies. Mestizos and natives also contributed to the body of colonial literature. Authors such as El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and Guaman Poma wrote accounts of the Spanish conquest that show a perspective that often contrasts with the colonizers’ accounts. During the colonial period‚ written culture was often in the hands of the church‚ within which context Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
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conquistadors continued to take over Mexico‚ they rebelled by persecuting the Indians so they could force them to convert to Spanish religion. Reports were made and sent back to Spain about how they treated the Indians. One report‚ made by Felipe Guaman Poma during the mid 1500s to about 1615‚ shows many drawings depicting their treatment. There is one picture of a holy Spanish man who was trying to perform a form of conversion ceremony on an Indian woman‚ tired of suspicion and persecution and fearful
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World‚ the Spanish and Portuguese promised to convert the indigenous peoples to Catholicism. This involved not only priests and monks preaching to tem‚ but living among them and setting a proper example of what Christian life should be like. Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala speaks of the need fro priest to be good examples in his New Chronicle and [Treatise on] Good Government. However‚ as he describes in his work‚ not all priests set a good example for the indigenous people. He talks of how priests abuse
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Two Authors with One Voice When observing the people around me‚ I’ve noticed that individuals have a tendency to share their personal stories in many ways. Some are too shy and others think that they will be judged if the person they were talking to knew who the story was really about. It’s an easier way to share information‚ whether it is personal or something basic like what they did today‚ through other’s words. Some individuals are confident enough to write about themselves and talk freely to
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The Mission of an Autoethnography In Mary Louise Pratt’s essay‚ “Arts of the Contact Zone‚” we are introduced to the idea of contact zones‚ autoethnography‚ and new ways of looking at common ideas. I wanted to see some examples of what she was really talking about. After reading John Edgar Wideman’s “Our Time” we can see that Pratt’s ideas and terms are accurate because they can be applied to this reading as well as others. "Our Time" is an autoethnography because it uses diffeerent points of
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Aztec & Inca DBQ The Aztec and Inca were two very advanced cultural societies for being on of the early civilizations of Central America. These Empires maintained a high level of cultural development due to their social‚ architectural‚ and religious aspects. Additional documents that would have aided the explanation of these cultures would be from a priest and his role was a significant part in the community as well as from an architect or constructor‚ to describe some of the obstacles they needed
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