11-4-08 Work

Guaman Poman’s New Chronicle

What is our way of understanding culture, community?

"When I look at a culture, I look at what the culture values, language , their religion, there norms, race.

Contact Zone

When cultures clash they begin to take from each other. They begin transculturation. As they take norms and exchange it norms they begin to assimilate and understand each other more but on a different level. A level in which they become equal.


The standard understanding is very set and fix. And if we look at things to be one way, we would not get certain things. "

That was my writing for today, pertaining to the Contact Zone.

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“If one thinks of cultures, or literatures, as discrete, coherently structured, monolingual edifices, Guaman Poma’s text, and indeed any auto ethnographic work, appears anomalous or chaotic."


This was taken from our actual task. It expresses what I was trying to get at but in a different way. My view was a way that we have one way to look at things or we look at specific things. There isn’t really a better understanding of another culture. They were kinda similar but my way never really viewed another culture as inferior.
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on a side note:
Prof.Lee asked us ( my group) why might cultures feel superior when looking at another, I thought to myself of pride, honor, and wanting to feel special. It really didn’t apply but it just popped in.