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September 10 : Place, Text and Power

A. Textual representation of space and place

Readings: Relaciones Geograficas de Peru
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  1. Section One & Two
  2. Section Three & Four
  3. Section Five & Six
  4. Section Seven & Eight
  5. Section Nine, Ten, Eleven, & Twelve
  6. Section Thirteen & Fourteen

B. Theories of power

C. Power and place


Supplementary readings:

  • Bourdieu, Pierre. "Symbolic Power and the Political Field." In Language and Symbolic Power. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Uniersity Press, 1994. 163-251

  • Costa Lima, Luiz. The Dark Side of Reason. "The Religious Control of Imagination." In The Dark Side of Reason: Fictionality and Power. 12-64.

  • Foucault, Michel. Un dialogo sobre el poder. Madrid: Alianza, 2000.

  • Gupta, Akhil and James Ferguson. "Culture, Power, Place: Ethnography at the End of an Era." In Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997. 1-29.

  • -------------. "Beyond "Culture": Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference." in Culture 33-51."

  • MacCormack, Sabine. "Time, Space and Ritual Action." In Elizabeth Hill Boone and Tom Cummins, Ed. Washington, DC. Dumbarton Oaks, 1998. 295- 343.

  • Mignolo, Walter D. "The Movable Centger: Geographical Discourses and Territoriality During the Expansion of the Spanish Empire." In Ceballos, Javier et al. Coded Encounters: Writing, gender and Ethnicity in Colonial Latin America. Amherest: University of Massachusetts, 1994.

  • Rama, Angel. La ciudad Letrada. Hanover: Ediciones Norte, 1984.

  • Stein, Stanley j. and Barbara H. Stein. La Herencia colonial de America Latina. Mexico: Siglo XXI