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...following three articles, Richard Price describes what Cornell University has done in one Peruvian community to offset an anachronistic feudal system that may lead the country to revolution, and contrasts such modern changes with the ancient but prevalent custom of "trial marriage;" Renate Rosaldo views with alarm increased feelings of anti-Americanism in Ecuador; and Jack Stauder describes a way of life in the "hot country" of Mexico that has remained unchanged over the centuries. The writers were among eight Harvard and Radcliffe students who spent the summer living with and studying Indians in Peru, Ecuador, and Mexico...
...community of Vicos is among the most fortunate of Peruvian haciendas. Through the efforts of the Cornell-Peru project and pressure from the U.S. embassy in Lima, Peru last month expropriated Vicos. For the first time in many generations, Vicosinos own their homes and farm their own. Boasting a modern school built with local labor, a greatly improved standard of living, a clinic and a self-governing community council, Vicos is the home of a people who have attained a new degree of human dignity and self respect. It is only among a few old men that one finds...
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: "25 Centuries of Peruvian Art, 700 B.C. to 1800 A.D." Co-sponsored by the Peabody Museum, this exhibition contains over 300 objects, including a grouping of pre-Columbian gold...
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: "25 Centuries of Peruvian Art" (700 B.C. to 1800 B.C. to 1800 A.D.) opens Wednesday. Co-sponsored by the Peabody Museum, this exhibition contains over 300 objects, including a grouping of pre-Columbian gold. "18th Century New England Embroideries" will remain on display in Gallery D 21, as will "20th Century Prints by Contemporary Artists" in the Hemicycle and "English and French Watercolors" in the Watercolor Corridor. A display in the Book Corridor will demonstrate "French Design and Decoration for the Craftsman of the 18th Century." In Gallery D 45 a display of communion silver from...
When Che heard that Peruvian Prime Minister Pedro Beltran was trying to put through a clause in the Declaration of Punta del Este that would clearly exclude the Cuban dictatorship from the alliance, Che dropped around uninvited to the meeting room, stirred up quite a commotion trying to get in, then withdrew looking hurt. In the end, at Brazil's insistence, Beltran's proposals were watered down to a mere stated preference for representative democracy. It was Che himself who then placed Cuba squarely outside the hemisphere alliance of the other 20 nations by refusing to sign...