Please join Círculo on Tuesday, November 19 for a talk by Tamara Miller, owner of Viva Verde Farm, on the development of the Alpaca fiber industry in Michigan. Tamara will be sharing her experiences working in the Alpaca fiber industry, and Michigan's role in this growing market.
Tamara Miller is an alpaca herder, hand spinner and entrepreneur. As a French Literature major she never thought she would be running a farm, much less paving the way for a fiber industry in Michigan. She posts updates about alpaca farm life and their fiber on twitter @viaverdefarm.
Tuesday, Nov. 19,12 - 1pm
242 West Hall
As always, lunch will be provided.
Wednesday, October 23, 6-7:30pm: Javier Sanjinés book presentation
We are very pleased to invite you to a presentation by Javier Sanjinés, UM Professor of Spanish. He will discuss the upcoming second Spanish edition of Mestizaje Upside-Down: Aesthetic Politics in Modern Bolivia. In preparation, we will also read the introduction to his recent book Embers of the Past (2013), which he will connect to his talk. If you would like to receive a copy of the chapter, please email the coordinators.
*Special time*
Wednesday, October 23
6 - 7:30 pm
242 West Hall
Dinner will be provided.
*Special time*
Wednesday, October 23
6 - 7:30 pm
242 West Hall
Dinner will be provided.
Tuesday 10/8 12-1pm: Nick Emlen student research presentation
Círculo Andino is pleased to welcome back long-time member Nick Emlen, a doctoral student in linguistic anthropology, who will present on his dissertation research in Peru. Nick will be discussing:
The two modernities of Yokiri
The lives of Matsigenkas and colonists on the Andean-Amazonian agricultural frontier of Southern Peru are undergoing profound transformations. On the one hand, members of the small community of Yokiri have recently begun to interact with the state by defending their land through the legal system and by demanding (in Spanish) public investments such as schools, health posts, electricity, and roads. On the other hand, they have also begun to engage in the practices of rural agrarian sociality, such as establishing relationships of compadrazgo with neighboring colonists, chewing coca, speaking Quechua, listening to Andean music, and performing Andean-style dances. But while in many parts of Peru these two domains of sociality are interpreted in terms of an opposition between modernity and tradition (and other such binaries), Yokiriños consider them both to be "modern." The entrance of indigenous Amazonians into the agrarian campesinado is a very complex process, and Yokiriños appear to distinguish two separate but related domains of modernity, each related to a distinct economy of cultural and linguistic practices. I am just beginning a dissertation chapter on the interactional context of community meetings (the primary site for the first type of modernity), and in this presentation I will offer some preliminary findings.
Lunch will be provided.
Tuesday, October 8
12 - 1pm
242 West Hall
The two modernities of Yokiri
The lives of Matsigenkas and colonists on the Andean-Amazonian agricultural frontier of Southern Peru are undergoing profound transformations. On the one hand, members of the small community of Yokiri have recently begun to interact with the state by defending their land through the legal system and by demanding (in Spanish) public investments such as schools, health posts, electricity, and roads. On the other hand, they have also begun to engage in the practices of rural agrarian sociality, such as establishing relationships of compadrazgo with neighboring colonists, chewing coca, speaking Quechua, listening to Andean music, and performing Andean-style dances. But while in many parts of Peru these two domains of sociality are interpreted in terms of an opposition between modernity and tradition (and other such binaries), Yokiriños consider them both to be "modern." The entrance of indigenous Amazonians into the agrarian campesinado is a very complex process, and Yokiriños appear to distinguish two separate but related domains of modernity, each related to a distinct economy of cultural and linguistic practices. I am just beginning a dissertation chapter on the interactional context of community meetings (the primary site for the first type of modernity), and in this presentation I will offer some preliminary findings.
Lunch will be provided.
Tuesday, October 8
12 - 1pm
242 West Hall
Welcome Meeting
Join us on Tuesday, September 17, 2013, 12 - 1pm in in the Conference Room (Rm. 60) of Tappan Hall for our first meeting of the 2013-2014 academic year!
The new co-coordinators, Ximena Gómez and Georgia Ennis, will introduce plans for the year and discuss ideas from members. Lunch from Pilar's Tamales will be provided.
The new co-coordinators, Ximena Gómez and Georgia Ennis, will introduce plans for the year and discuss ideas from members. Lunch from Pilar's Tamales will be provided.