Monday, November 04, 2024

Peru: unbounded mystery and exorcism

 


“..no country in this hemisphere outrivals Peru in the aura of mystery and exorcism.. Peru locks into the world traffic of people and ideas, where, as anthropologist Arjun Appadrai puts it, ‘groups are no longer tightly territorialized, spatially bounded, historically self-conscious or culturally homogenous."


-Page 6 of this great book