http://enperublog.com/2008/07/30/machu-picchu-is-mexican-hollywood-thinks-so/ All you could ever want to know about Peru Sun, 26 Feb 2023 22:03:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://enperublog.com/2008/07/30/machu-picchu-is-mexican-hollywood-thinks-so/comment-page-1/#comment-374 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:12:16 +0000 http://enperublog.com/?p=1058#comment-374 Give an Inca a tour of Europe and the US and he would probably see little difference I suppose…

]]> http://enperublog.com/2008/07/30/machu-picchu-is-mexican-hollywood-thinks-so/comment-page-1/#comment-373 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:59:06 +0000 http://enperublog.com/?p=1058#comment-373 I was recently at the Getty Center here in Los Angeles, at a guided exhibition about the the visual representation of the New World by the first Europeans who arrived in the Americas, and one of the more interesting points was that this mish-mosh of all ‘native’ American cultures started way back then. Lithographers and illustrators would use the same images for Peru and Mexico, or use Mexican motifs in illustrations of what was supposed to be Peru, and vice-verse. It seems that in 500 plus years, people are still doing the same thing, especially in Hollywood. The film Apocalypto also fused Andean and Mayan imagery….

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