1. HUM 2461
Humanities of Latin
America
SFC Spring 2012
Dr. Ericka Ghersi
Dr. Regiani Zacarias
Day 1
Tuesday, January 8th
, 2013
2. Day 1A
• Introduction to class
• Attendance
• Health issues
• Pop quiz
• Course Hosekeeping
• Homework for Thursday
• Opening Web Presentation
Today’s Agenda
3. Professor Zacarias
• Brazil – USA – Florida
• Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence @ SF
2012-2013
• English professor: UNESP, São Paulo
State University, Brazil
• Co-teaching 3 courses this semester
4. Professor Ghersi
• Peru – Ohio – Spain – Mexico – Ecuador
–Florida (B.A. / M.A. / Ph.D.)
• University of Florida
• Stetson University
• Santa Fe College
• Associate Professor, Department of
Humanities and Foreign Languages
5.
6. 1. Your name.
2. Your heritage.
3. Why are you taking this class?
4. What do you expect to learn in this class?
7. Course housekeeping
• CLASS HOURS: TH 12:30-1:45
• CLASS B-32B
• OFFICE HOURS: T&H 11:00-12:00
• Email: ericka.ghersi@sfcollege.edu
• Web: http://people.sfcollege.edu/ericka.ghersi/
• COURSE WEBSITE:
http://people.sfcollege.edu/ericka.ghersi/HUM2461.
html
8. GRADABLE WORK
• Homework: (10 x 15 pts) 150 points
• Midterm examination: 100
• Final examination: 150
• 2 quizzes (2 x 25) 50
• Film essay ("term paper"): 25
• Creative Project (visual or written) 75
• Attendance/class participation: 50
• Total points 600
9. Grade calculation
A 90% 600-540 pts
B 80% 539-480 pts
C 70% 479-420 pts
D 60% 419-360 pts
F 59% - 0% 359-0 pts
10. SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS (required):
• (1) Popol Vuh (online); Prologue –
Chapter 9 only. Download and print
• 2461 Website: all pages and documents
Dr. William Little’s On-Line Book:
http://dept.sfcollege.edu/HFL/hum2461/hum24
61home.htm
TEXTBOOK
16. A. Web: Notes and links: Day 1 (for Day 2)
B. View and study: "Opening slide shows 1 and 2"
C. Read: (a) "Prehistoric Notes" (b) "Introduction
Pages“
D. Read 2461 Cuba online:
• Day 5: Turn in written
Homework #1
(on Mayas; access on-line)
Homework for Thursday:
On-line:
17. HUM 2461
Humanities of Latin America
SFC Spring 2013
Day 1B
• Attendance
• Introduction pages
• First Web site lecture
• Latin American Terminology
Xavier Quijas Yxayótl: "Singing Earth"
Mesoamerican clay flutes, drums
"Music for Rain God"
18. Latin American Terminology:
Key Terms and Themes
• Syncretism/sincretismo
• Admiratio
• Horror vacui
• Cupio
• Religio
• Lo ctónico (Earth goddess)
• Magical Realism/Lo real maravilloso
33. Source: WTL Latin American materials archive.
Location: Brazilian Amazonian indigenous tribesmen.
Images: Men; snake (anaconda); sand; grass; forest;
sky
Metaphors: Humans in nature; fusion of men and
snake
Perspectives: (A) Primitive civilization; (B) fully
developed civilization
Cultural humanities: (A) Oral traditions; (B) lo ctónico;
(C) What does lo ctónico mean?
35. Location: Guatemala
Images: Two clothed men; guns; river; two shores
Question: Identify all of the similarities and
opposites you can in this photo.
Cultural humanities: (A) Binary opposites; (B)
dualism; (C) cultural encounter / conflict / fusion;
(D) verticality / horizontality
37. Location: México
Images: Traditional mask ornament (painted,
lacquered papier-maché) with fireworks
Comments: (A) The figure represents either the
devil or a Pharisee (i.e, Jew); (B) masks and
costumes are essential cultural displays in Latin
American holiday festivities.
Cultural humanities: Social custom with traditional
artisanal creation; representation of devil or cultural
other to ward off individual and community
disaster.
39. Location: Colombia
Images: Shakira, glass sphere.
Comment: This is a website wallpaper photo.
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (b. 1977) is a famous
Colombian singer, songwriter, instrumentalist,
record producer, dancer, and actress.
Cultural humanities: (A) Cupio; (B) popular music
publicity and contemporary glamor; (C)
photography
41. Location: Mexican mask
Images: Photo of Mexican mask
Comment: Identify all of the images represented on
this mask; then fuse them together into an
interpretation.
Cultural humanities: Traditional Mexican artisanal
art
45. Location: México
Image: Dolores del Río
Comment: Dolores Martínez Asúnsolo y López
Negrete (1905 - 1983), from Durango, México. Her
family lost everything during Mexican Revolution;
then she moved to Hollywood for a famous sex
appeal film career (1929 - 1942 and 1960 - 1964) and
in Latin America (1942 - 1958).
Cultural humanities: (A) Cupio; (B) cinema; (C)
wealthy class glamor; (D) international stardom
47. Location: Argentina / Cuba
Image: Ernesto (Che) Guevara (b. 1928 in Argentina;
d. 1967 in Bolivia)
Comment: Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, AKA Che
Guevara, El Che, or Che (typical Argentinian word):
Marxist revolutionary, medical doctor, political
figure, and leader of Cuban revolution of 1959 and
Cuban-exported communist revolutionary
movements.
Cultural humanities: (A) Revolution; (B) Twentieth-
century communism
49. Location: Brazil (O Brasil)
Image: Carmen Miranda in movie scene.
Comment: Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha (b.
1909 in Portugal; d. 1955 in Brazil): samba singer
and motion picture star from 1940's.
Cultural humanities: (A) Cupio; (B) cinema; (C) mid-
twentieth-century Brazilian glamor; (D) tropicalismo
50. 1. Describe
2. What is this?
3. Is this
Realism?
4. Key Term?
2. Bas-relief carving
3. Vision quest
4. Mythical stylization
Editor's Notes
What part of Latin America you have information about? What kind of information? Are you connected (personally or otherwise) with Latin America?
We are still missing big populations of Latin Americans located in several states of the United States such Queens (New York City), Paterson (New Jersey) and Los Angeles (California). Other States with big populations are Michigan, North Carolina, Colorado. PREGUNTARLES: What continent are you from? –AMERICA—The Panama Canal is a man-made construction/channel or (route [rút])
PREGUNTARLES: What continent are you from? –AMERICA—The Panama Canal is a man-made construction/channel or (route [rút]) 1914.
The process by which various elements from one culture are fused into another culture to form a new cultural unit. Latin American culture and humanities are essentially syncretic.
The process by which various elements from one culture are fused into another culture to form a new cultural unit. Latin American culture and humanities are essentially syncretic.
Admiratio: From Latin, meaning "wonderment". Early Latin Europeans in the Americas reacted to each and every novelty they encountered with amazement, wonderment, appreciation, admiration, ecstacy. In the 20th century Latin Americans rediscovered this sense of amazement over their own realities
Admiratio: From Latin, meaning "wonderment". Early Latin Europeans in the Americas reacted to each and every novelty they encountered with amazement, wonderment, appreciation, admiration, ecstacy. In the 20th century Latin Americans rediscovered this sense of amazement over their own realities
From Latin, meaning "fear of a vacuum/void". The aspects of pre-Columbian humanities that show a tendency to fill up all available space for carving, painting, ritual, etc., demonstrate the notion of horror vacui . Also, Spanish baroque linguistic and visual humanities also demonstrate this characteristic. Therefore, in Latin America, which is a fusion of pre-Columbian and Spanish-American traits, one sees a heightened presence of horror vacui in the humanities.
From Latin, meaning "desire". A strong motivation for Latin-European conquest was getting rich and powerful. Cupio involves such a strong desire for possession of valuable things (gold, silver, jewels, land, souls, etc.) among native Americans that it led to a violent lust for them. This is one of the principle characteristics of the periods of Conquest and Colonization. This was the city of Aztec emperor Moctezuma that Cortez wanted to hand over as a prize to his king, Emperor Charles V (above, a 1930 artistic impression). But in the terrible siege of 1521, Cortez and his army, supported by thousands of the Aztecs´ enemies, ended up destroying most of it.
From Latin, meaning "desire". A strong motivation for Latin-European conquest was getting rich and powerful. Cupio involves such a strong desire for possession of valuable things (gold, silver, jewels, land, souls, etc.) among native Americans that it led to a violent lust for them. This is one of the principle characteristics of the periods of Conquest and Colonization. This was the city of Aztec emperor Moctezuma that Cortez wanted to hand over as a prize to his king, Emperor Charles V (above, a 1930 artistic impression). But in the terrible siege of 1521, Cortez and his army, supported by thousands of the Aztecs´ enemies, ended up destroying most of it.
From Latin, meaning "religion". The motivation and process by which Latin-nation European colonizers imposed their own form of Christianity on native-American peoples. This is one of the principle characteristics of the periods of Conquest and Colonization. For the purposes of the course, the term can be extended to the unique encounter between Roman Catholicism and the multiplicity of indigenous religions that predated the introduction of Christianity in Latin America and that, in many cases continue in the present to survive alongside or fused with various forms of Christianity and African religions. CONVERSION TO CATHOLICISM = ATAHUALPA versus PIZARRO. CHRONICLERS.
From Latin, meaning "religion". The motivation and process by which Latin-nation European colonizers imposed their own form of Christianity on native-American peoples. This is one of the principle characteristics of the periods of Conquest and Colonization. For the purposes of the course, the term can be extended to the unique encounter between Roman Catholicism and the multiplicity of indigenous religions that predated the introduction of Christianity in Latin America and that, in many cases continue in the present to survive alongside or fused with various forms of Christianity and African religions. CONVERSION TO CATHOLICISM = ATAHUALPA versus PIZARRO. CHRONICLERS.
“ Lo real maravilloso” marvelous is different to magic. In the US we talk about magic, if we don ’ t have an explanation then it is magical, but in LA cultures when there is not explanation then it is marvelous. ** This is a movement in Latin American humanities during the second half of the 20th century which features a birthing of cutting edge innovations such as the Novel of the Boom, a fusion of prior aesthetic movements, international recognition for Latin American humanists, experimentation, a rediscovery of the marvelous in Latin American reality, and the like.
One of the root ideas of so-called Magical Realism, based on the notion of the original Greek earth modern goddess, Chthon. The notion is that all of Latin American reality and expression in language and the arts arises from and is based on what comes specifically and uniquely from the earth of Latin America.
One of the root ideas of so-called Magical Realism, based on the notion of the original Greek earth modern goddess, Chthon. The notion is that all of Latin American reality and expression in language and the arts arises from and is based on what comes specifically and uniquely from the earth of Latin America.
