ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Espeletia, Museum Of Modern Art, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
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Mountains of southern peru home to pan-andean culture, a fusion of deep pre-columbian notions of reciprocity and landscapes, obligation and debt, all honed by christian influence. Indians of the sierra nevada were never fully vanquished by the spaniards. Escaped death, and pestilence to settle in a mountain paradise. Over the course of 500 years, inspired by an utterly new dream of the earth, a revelation that affirmed the existence of eternal laws. Balanced the baroque potential of the human mind. Three peoples, separated by language closely related by myth, share same fundamental religious convictions. Moral, ecological, and spiritual dictates of the serankua and the great mother. Mamos acknowledge explicitly that they are the guardians of the world, that their rituals maintain the balance and fertility of life. They are, aware ancestors, the tairona waged fierce but futile war. They chose transform their civilization into a devotional culture of peace. Homeland kogi, arhuacos, and wiwa indeed a microcosm of the world.
