FA 77b Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Casta, Magic Realism, Camilo Egas
19 Feb 2017
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Pizarro came there and found a complexly organized region. He decides to put the indigenous people to work in mining. Then they decided to import africans instead because one priest thought that the indigenous people were. The colonizers put their church right on top of a sun temple (the qoriqancha) It"s a display of power and colonization. An ornament that is so intense that it. Guinea pig dinner, and peruvian dishes on the table. Bringing something universal and making it local. To say, this is also your god. Like magical realism to a large degree. After two or three centuries of mixing. Spaniards became interested, based on french ideas, about race. A continuous mixing of races and cultures. They are leaning against the remnants of a indigenous temple. He is like a mountain and she is like the landscape. They both look like they are in pain.
