{"id":1610,"date":"2010-04-28T14:33:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T18:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/?page_id=1610"},"modified":"2010-08-11T17:21:31","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T21:21:31","slug":"jordan-zandi-bolivia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/past-fellows\/2010-global-fellows\/jordan-zandi-bolivia\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Zandi: Bolivia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>August 9, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment1897\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/files\/2010\/08\/jordan.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment1897\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1897\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/files\/2010\/08\/jordan-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Jordan Zandi: Bolivia\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment1897\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jordan Zandi: Bolivia<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In August I&#8217;ll be traveling to Santa Cruz, Bolivia in order to study Aymara, the language of the Aymara people of Bolivia, Peru, and Chile.\u00a0 Just a few of the language&#8217;s unique features are its\u00a0three-part system of logic (unlike the binary true-false logic\u00a0of English) and its conflation of the present and past tenses.\u00a0 To the Aymara, present and past are linked together\u2014and distinguished from the future\u2014on the basis of being visible.\u00a0 Quite unlike English\u2014and any other language I\u2019ve heard of\u2014the past is what lies ahead, while the future lies behind:\u00a0 the past is what is looked into; one must turn around in order to see the future.\u00a0 Statements like \u201clooking ahead to the year 1200\u201d or \u201clooking back toward 2050\u201d sound strange to my ear, but they are suggestive of the Aymara\u2019s intimate, active relationship with their own cultural history.\u00a0 My greatest hope\u00a0for this trip is that my long-established perspectives will continue to be shattered.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 9, 2010 In August I&#8217;ll be traveling to Santa Cruz, Bolivia in order to study Aymara, the language of the Aymara people of Bolivia, Peru, and Chile.\u00a0 Just a few of the language&#8217;s unique features are its\u00a0three-part system of logic (unlike the binary true-false logic\u00a0of English) and its conflation of the present and past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":320,"featured_media":0,"parent":1411,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1937,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1610\/revisions\/1937"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}