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Wed, 24 Nov 2010 18:07:12 +0000

[…] belonging to one of the oldest civilizations in the Americas, has already given up a number of amazing discoveries. This latest gives us a look at early animal […]

By: edwin

edwin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:23:31 +0000

¡Viva la Cultura Peruana!
¡Viva el Perú!

By: Gustavo Campos

Gustavo Campos — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:32:42 +0000

I am Peruvian myself and currently live in the US. My background is in social anthropology. The answer to Roger’s question has to do with colonization and oppression. First of all, European-Americans are not the only ones who look down on the indigenous peoples of Peru: Peruvians do it themselves. My hypothesis is that Peruvians unconsciously prefer to feel that we are the Spanish conquistadores, than the defeated Incas. However, the past where Incas were still a huge empire is something that we Peruvians are always conveniently proud of. Now, the more indigenous you look, the more discriminatd you are in Peru by the dominant european-peruvian cultural standards. European-Americans are also used to looking down on “people of color”, and their not respecting indigeneous peruvians could be explained by looking at their own discrimination scheme (this is a generalization, of course).

By: Roger Garcia-Marenco

Roger Garcia-Marenco — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:29:36 +0000

What intrigues me is the double standard that European-Americans use to relate to Peru’s people; for them the ancient Andean cultures and civilizations are in the same league as those at the top world wide but the today’s people, unmistakably Native descendants of those that bult along milennias so great tivilizations don’t deserve a bit of such respect, I ponder Why?

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» The Chavín culture …en Perú - Travel Culture History News — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:07:20 +0000

[…] roots in the very first civilisations and city-states in the Americas such as Caral, Sechín and Ventarrón, created what was Peru’s very first empire. In doing so, they instilled an idea in Andean […]

By: Dave and Deb

Dave and Deb — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:57:11 +0000

I have a necklace in the shape of the Chakana that I bought in the Sacred Valley. Now I can explain what it is to people in far more detail when I wear it. It will be interesting to follow this story. It may be a very big discovery since it is the first time they have found it incorporated in architecture. Very interesting.