Thank you very much for your thoughtful analysis of the relation between the Indigenous people of Chactajal and the landowning family in Balún Canán. Castellanos has written that she was born in the middle of the 16th century.
As I was reading I couldn’t decide which meaning of the homonym that is “material” you intend. I am an accountant and my first thought when I see the word relates to financial significance or otherwise. When I got to the end you talked about buildings which are the product of physical goods and labour. Nonetheless it might work with my sense of the word. It is rare that the two sides of a homonym can coexist in the same body of writing.
Thank you very much for your thoughtful analysis of the relation between the Indigenous people of Chactajal and the landowning family in Balún Canán. Castellanos has written that she was born in the middle of the 16th century.
As I was reading I couldn’t decide which meaning of the homonym that is “material” you intend. I am an accountant and my first thought when I see the word relates to financial significance or otherwise. When I got to the end you talked about buildings which are the product of physical goods and labour. Nonetheless it might work with my sense of the word. It is rare that the two sides of a homonym can coexist in the same body of writing.
Glad that it has had that effect - one of my goals (www.its-material.com/About) is joining the dots between financial materiality, and material impacts on people and the environment. Some more thoughts on that here: https://itsmaterial.substack.com/p/its-material-3-double-materiality