Paucartambo, critique of sources and feedback

Description: This week we've been working in our critique of sources and how we should actually write it, also the feedback from the school play, and of course searching more about Paucartambo.

Analysis: First of all we’ve been talking about the school play and it seems it was very pleasant to the headmasters and to everyone, we did put a lot of effort and it was difficult to work with the puppets, so it was a great challenge and we actually did it. Regarding the critique of sources we learned some steps to do this:

1.       Identify the source

2.       Summarise the content briefly

3.       Describe how it was use

4.       Why it was useful

Also we have to have a valid argument and we have to say how reliable was the source for the investigation. We all did very good in this, some little mistakes but it was good and easy to do (now that we actually know how to do it).

Regarding Paucartambo we looked about the conditions of theatre, there are 4:

1.       Involvement of the body to represent another person in certain time and place through a performance.

2.       Order, composition and game

3.       A content, something to say

4.       A social and ritual function.

This 4 has to be included in order to be theatre, so looking about Paucartambo in the involvement of the body we have the time, space, mask and actions. In this case, everything happens in Paucartambo, which is a small town, which is 109 kms north east Cuzco city.  There are more things ahead to learn about Paucartambo, including the texts we have to read now, I bet these texts will help a lot to our understanding. Also this tradition uses masks, which makes it even more interesting.

Connections: As in Paucartambo they use masks, which is very interesting as we used masks for the school play, we are going to be able to actually learn about these, as we didn’t actually learnt in the school play. The only things we learnt were that there are kind of masks, and that we should always look to the front when wearing a mask.

Reflection: Even though we used masks for our school play we never actually get into deep and we never learnt the conventions of wearing a mask, so I was wondering which were the conventions when wearing a mask?, especially in this tradition?, why do they actually wear it?, just to represent other characters or because of something deeper?