Why can'ta Quechua speaker wear pants? Anna M. Babel uses this question to open an
analysis of language and social structure at the border of eastern and western, highland and …

This paper offers an ethnographic analysis of indigenous Peruvian Amazonian youth
pursuing higher education through urban migration to contribute to the resilience of their …

Abstract Indigenous people across South America tend to be multilingual, and South
American languages exhibit historical contact effects that suggest multilingualism has long …

Extraordinary change is under way in the Alto Urubamba Valley, a vital and turbulent corner
of the Andean-Amazonian borderland of southern Peru. Here, tens of thousands of Quechua …

In the Southern Peruvian Amazon, agricultural migrants from the Andes have brought
Quechua and Andean Spanish into the traditional Amazonian territory of Matsigenka …

In a small community in the Andean-Amazonian transitional zone of Southern Peru,
speakers of Matsigenka use recapitulative linkages in myth narrations. These constructions …

The Andes is the longest terrestrial mountain chain in the world, extending around 7,000
kilometers from Colombia and Venezuela in the north to Tierra del Fuego in the south …

There has been some discussion about minority academics, the acceptance of the diversity
of ideas, and the promotion of these ideas in an already set-up and strict colonial academic …

The study explores public educational meetings that aim to promote the Belarusian
language and culture. In the course of the meetings, those who do not have the same values …