Latin American Geographies
GEO 373
Latin American Geographies
Essay One
There are quite a few imaginative geographies that can be found from many authors completing travel writings relating to Latin America. To fully understand where these writings are coming from, one must first know what is meant by ‘imaginative geographies.’ According to the author, Gareth Jones, imaginative geographies can be categorized by connections of global cultural flows as ethnoscapes, mediascapes, technoscapes, finanscapes and ideoscapes. Ethnoscapes are described as people who shift the world in which we live, also known as tourists, refugees, guestworkers and students. A technoscape for Latin America is the use of technology and information moving around the world about the geographic …show more content…
According to the text, an encomienda is an institution by which Spanish colonizers were assigned, through royal concession, rights to collect tributes from natives, sell their produce and exploit their labor. Bartolome’ view on the treatment of the Indians goes against everything that an encomienda is supposed to live by. Las Casas had written many works of literature, one in particular, a treaty. In this treaty, it laid out the rejection of military colonization and encouraged peaceful corporation with the Amerindians. With the help of his other works, Las Casas became so influential, he wrote the New Laws, that regulated new conquests, outlawed any slave raids, and limited the encomienda to only two lives. Unfortunately for Las Casas was that his writing had a rippling effect. Thanks to his criticism, it allowed the encomenderos to have more power and control over the Indians. But on the other hand, his writings allowed Spanish enemies to portray the Indians as innocent and defenseless being murdered by the power-seeking encomenderos. Juan Gines de Sepulveda was the other strong critic who had a very different view on the matter. Sepulveda was a Spanish theologian who was able to justify the war against the Indians. Sepulveda had four reasons that supported his thought of going to war with the Indians: (1) natural inferiority; (2) acts against ‘nature,’ or in other terms, cannibalism, etc.; (3) protection of the innocent; …show more content…
The merengue was first only accepted as a ballroom dance in the 1920s. Merengue’s rural identity can still be known and found under the name of perico ripiao and is considered the prototypic manifestation representing a dance form of the Dominican peasantry. The name is derived from the fact that the merengue was first danced amongst the popular social classes. During Trujillo’s dictatorship in the 1930s, merengue was then broadcasted via radio and television and promoted as a symbol of national
Latin American Geographies
Essay One
There are quite a few imaginative geographies that can be found from many authors completing travel writings relating to Latin America. To fully understand where these writings are coming from, one must first know what is meant by ‘imaginative geographies.’ According to the author, Gareth Jones, imaginative geographies can be categorized by connections of global cultural flows as ethnoscapes, mediascapes, technoscapes, finanscapes and ideoscapes. Ethnoscapes are described as people who shift the world in which we live, also known as tourists, refugees, guestworkers and students. A technoscape for Latin America is the use of technology and information moving around the world about the geographic …show more content…
According to the text, an encomienda is an institution by which Spanish colonizers were assigned, through royal concession, rights to collect tributes from natives, sell their produce and exploit their labor. Bartolome’ view on the treatment of the Indians goes against everything that an encomienda is supposed to live by. Las Casas had written many works of literature, one in particular, a treaty. In this treaty, it laid out the rejection of military colonization and encouraged peaceful corporation with the Amerindians. With the help of his other works, Las Casas became so influential, he wrote the New Laws, that regulated new conquests, outlawed any slave raids, and limited the encomienda to only two lives. Unfortunately for Las Casas was that his writing had a rippling effect. Thanks to his criticism, it allowed the encomenderos to have more power and control over the Indians. But on the other hand, his writings allowed Spanish enemies to portray the Indians as innocent and defenseless being murdered by the power-seeking encomenderos. Juan Gines de Sepulveda was the other strong critic who had a very different view on the matter. Sepulveda was a Spanish theologian who was able to justify the war against the Indians. Sepulveda had four reasons that supported his thought of going to war with the Indians: (1) natural inferiority; (2) acts against ‘nature,’ or in other terms, cannibalism, etc.; (3) protection of the innocent; …show more content…
The merengue was first only accepted as a ballroom dance in the 1920s. Merengue’s rural identity can still be known and found under the name of perico ripiao and is considered the prototypic manifestation representing a dance form of the Dominican peasantry. The name is derived from the fact that the merengue was first danced amongst the popular social classes. During Trujillo’s dictatorship in the 1930s, merengue was then broadcasted via radio and television and promoted as a symbol of national