“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion.
As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.”
-Abraham Lincoln According to Abraham Lincoln, former president of the United States of America and the issuer of the Emancipation Proclamation, we as humans must learn to rise with new occasions. In other words, we as humans must learn to adapt and grow given different situations. The adaptations allow for the coming together of different races, religions and cultures. They allow for a chance of transculturation through what are known as contact zones. In her essay, “Arts of the Contact Zone,” Mary Louis Pratt defines contact zones as “social spaces where cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other, often in highly asymmetrical relations” (Pratt 487). Contact zones allow for different cultures to go through the merging and converging of different cultures which is known as transculturation (488). Transculturation is important because it is considered a phenomenon of the contact zone. Transculturation is “a process whereby members of subordinated or marginal groups select and invent from materials transmitted by a dominant …show more content…
The letter addressed the problem that dealt with the torture that the Spanish brought on towards the Andean people, which is quite different than the glorified, Spanish version of the conquest that many other countries had grown to know. Poma writes the letter in both poor Spanish and Quechua in order to find a way to connect with the Spanish. He also made it a point to write the story from the two different points of view” (486). “New Chronicle of Good Government" is seen as an autoethnography because Poma writes about his people in response to the way the spanish saw them, and about his adaptations to the new culture he had been brought
The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion.
As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.”
-Abraham Lincoln According to Abraham Lincoln, former president of the United States of America and the issuer of the Emancipation Proclamation, we as humans must learn to rise with new occasions. In other words, we as humans must learn to adapt and grow given different situations. The adaptations allow for the coming together of different races, religions and cultures. They allow for a chance of transculturation through what are known as contact zones. In her essay, “Arts of the Contact Zone,” Mary Louis Pratt defines contact zones as “social spaces where cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other, often in highly asymmetrical relations” (Pratt 487). Contact zones allow for different cultures to go through the merging and converging of different cultures which is known as transculturation (488). Transculturation is important because it is considered a phenomenon of the contact zone. Transculturation is “a process whereby members of subordinated or marginal groups select and invent from materials transmitted by a dominant …show more content…
The letter addressed the problem that dealt with the torture that the Spanish brought on towards the Andean people, which is quite different than the glorified, Spanish version of the conquest that many other countries had grown to know. Poma writes the letter in both poor Spanish and Quechua in order to find a way to connect with the Spanish. He also made it a point to write the story from the two different points of view” (486). “New Chronicle of Good Government" is seen as an autoethnography because Poma writes about his people in response to the way the spanish saw them, and about his adaptations to the new culture he had been brought