Anthropology Piqueos | Ecela Spanish

Five Minutes a Day. Free 20-Part eCourse on Latin American anthropology topics.

Pérou - Tribu des Indiens Urarinas (86C)

Guaraní Mythology and Cosmology
The Guaraní believe that the world was created by Ñande Ramõi Jusu Papa, or “Our Eternal Great Grandfather”. (Issue 4)

Peru’s Street Children
In some instances, street children make money for food by collecting trash and sorting through it for paper and other scraps to sell.(Issue 8)

Urarina Cosmology
The Urarina people have an animistic cosmological system that is quite complex, believing that plants, natural phenomena and even the universe have their own souls. (Issue 14)

Anthropology Piqueos
Each day (Mon – Fri) one bite-sized topic of Latin American anthropology will be delivered to your inbox. This course is free of charge and edited by Kira Lansing of ECELA Spanish Schools.

Contents

The Yanomami of Venezuela: Ancient Culture in a Modern World
Argentina’s Madres de Plaza de Mayo
Women at Work: Chile’s Changing Family Structures
Guaraní Mythology and Cosmology
The Legalization of Gay Marriage in Argentina
The Coca Leaf and Its Importance to Latin American Indigenous Groups
Rapa Nui Cosmology
Peru’s Street Children
Music and Dance of the Andean Region
La Malinche of Mexico and Her Polemic Role as the “Mother of the Mestizos”
Afro-Peruvian Culture: Cultural Syncretism in the New World
The Gauchos of the South: History and Relevance
The Music of Los Huasos Quincheros
Urarina Cosmology
Aztec Mythology and The City of Tenochtitlán
Mapuche Medicine and Shamanism
The Argentine Porteño Dialect
Nicaragua’s Sandinistas and the Transformation of a Nation

Kira is the program coordinator for ECELA’s Spanish & Anthropology programs. A graduate of SUNY Albany (BA: Spanish, Anthropology) and an ex-ECELA student herself, Kira has helped hundreds of students organize their ECELA programs. Watch her video interview describing this year’s summer programs.

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