{"id":7165,"date":"2023-01-05T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/?p=7165"},"modified":"2024-08-26T10:24:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T15:24:51","slug":"you-complete-me-an-andean-conception-of-male-female-duality-in-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/2023\/you-complete-me-an-andean-conception-of-male-female-duality-in-relationships\/7165\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;You Complete Me&#8221; An Andean conception of male-female duality in relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Remember in the 1996 movie Jerry Maguire, when the sports agent searching for deeper meaning from work and life has his epiphany and races back to\u00a0his estranged newlywed bride?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;You Complete Me,&#8221; Jerry utters, coining one of the all-time stereotypical expressions of true love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The statement scratches the surface of a less overtly romantic Andean concept that has shaped religious ideologies, and influenced social organizations and interpersonal relationships between men and women in Peru for thousands of years: duality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An ancient dance of male-female duality<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a concept that opposing ideas, such as life and death, day and night, and the cosmos itself are divided into complementary parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The harmony of the universe depends on the controlled inter-relationship between polarities that link humans to both a spiritual world and an animate world, in which mountains, rivers, the sun, moon and stars are living entities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"255\" height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/guaman_poma_man_woman.gif\" alt=\"Chronicler Guaman Poma also desecribed the Inca conception of duality in relationships between men and women.\" class=\"wp-image-7206\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The duality of male and female is perhaps the most fundamental of these polarities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is still evident in indigenous, Quechua-speaking households today. Ethnographers discuss it in their writings as an integral facet of the Andean worldview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The attainment of harmonic existence only comes when the complimentary pairs are matched and there is a fusion of opposites, &#8220;like the warmi (woman) and qhari (man), each of which contains the other,&#8221; wrote Catherine J. Allen in her book&nbsp; <em>The hold life has: Coca and cultural identity in an Andean community.*&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, did Tom Cruise&#8217;s character, Jerry, know the deeper implications of what he was saying?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>* Allen&#8217;s book examines cultural identity in Sonqo, a small indigenous community near Cusco, where she lived in the 1980s and late 1990s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember in the 1996 movie Jerry Maguire, when the sports agent searching for deeper meaning from work and life has his epiphany and races back to\u00a0his estranged newlywed bride?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[555,557,565,566,556,567],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-7165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-andean-dualism","tag-ayllu","tag-commited-relationships","tag-commitment","tag-duality","tag-traditional-marriage","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7165"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=7165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}