This first session of the mini course introduces the Long View of history and explores the ancestral relationship of Reciprocity and its different modalities.
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The Gift by Marcel Mauss – An important introduction to the concept of Reciprocity.
Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary – This book is a great anthology of many different contemporary reciprocal proposals.
Inkarri: 500 years of Resistance – This documentary delves deeply into the mythological and cultural roots of the indigenous community of the Q’eros. The Q’eros inhabit a territory more than 5000 meters above sea level located between the plateau and Amazonian Regions of Cuzco in the South Central Andes. This “nation” of Andean men and women with extraordinary ways of life dedicate themselves to farming, agriculture, and exchange. They have preserved their ethnic identity for more than 500 years, surviving both the colonial and republic periods, as they project themselves into the future.
Orwell, G., & Vinyes, J. (2002). George Orwell: 1984. Barcelona: Ediciones Destino.
Villena, C. M. (2007). Ayni: Semiótica andina de los espacios sagrados. Lima: Amaru Wayra.
CARAL, VOLANDO SOBRE 5 MIL AÑOS de civilización. (2017, March 03). Retrieved March 16, 2021, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvicKjD1o1A
ThingLink. (n.d.). Terrazas de CULTIVO Incas by FLAVIA Ilgner. Retrieved March 16, 2021, from https://www.thinglink.com/scene/927559685639241731
How the iroquois great law of peace shaped u.s. democracy. (n.d.). Retrieved March 16, 2021, from https://www.pbs.org/native-america/blogs/native-voices/how-the-iroquois-great-law-of-peace-shaped-us-democracy/#3
BBC.Horizon.The.Lost.Pyramids.Of.Caral.2002.50Min. (2017, June 28). Retrieved March 16, 2021, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYaTOJwUSYg
Kothari, A., Salleh, A., Escobar, A., Demaria, F., & Acosta, A. (2019). Pluriverse: A post-development dictionary. New Delhi, India: Tulika Books and Authorsupfront.