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International and Area Studies

2020

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Communal Reciprocity In The Andes: An Ethnohistorical Approach To The Relationship Between Ayni And Food Production, Catherine Curran May 2020

Communal Reciprocity In The Andes: An Ethnohistorical Approach To The Relationship Between Ayni And Food Production, Catherine Curran

Spanish Honors Papers

Ayni, or reciprocity, historically characterizes Quechua culture as a fundamental aspect of ancient Andean societies. Furthermore, ayni represents a cosmovision that may come from pre-Hispanic times (as a political practice and ideology of the Inca Empire), that can be found in the texts of historians of the colonial period and endure to the present day. In this way, ayni is an ancient principle that has influenced Andean communities and continues to maintain today as a way to re-energize and maintain livelihood of the community through environmental conservation and complex household economies of sharing land, labor, and food. Due to …

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El Espacio Como Instrumento De Poder En Las Obras El Apando Y Los Días Y Los Años, Maria Griselda Stapleton Jan 2020

El Espacio Como Instrumento De Poder En Las Obras El Apando Y Los Días Y Los Años, Maria Griselda Stapleton

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

Esta tesis examina como en la novela El apando de José Revueltas y el testimonio Los días y los años de Luis González de Alba, el espacio es representado, organizado, y manipulado para funcionar como una herramienta del estado mexicano para ejercer su poder. Este poder era ejecutado a través de la ocupación de los espacios materiales y simbólicos con el propósito de deshacer el movimiento estudiantil del 68 durante los años de la Guerra Sucia en México. La ocupación del estado se llevó a cabo tanto en el interior como en el exterior del penal de Lecumberri, donde fueron …

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