QUECHUA

Kechuaboth: kĕchˈooə, –wä, or Quichuakēchˈwä, linguistic family belonging to the Andean branch of the Andean-Equatorial stock of Native American languages (mainly in South America). Encompassing far more native speakers than any other aboriginal language group in the Americas, the languages of the Quechuan family are spoken by peoples in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, and Chile. There is a modern standard language of this family spoken by close to 10 million indigenous people in Peru and 2 million in Bolivia, as well as smaller populations in Ecuador and Argentina. Some 28 Quechuan languages are still in use. The official language of the ancient Inca empire, also called Quechua, was of this family. In the early 1400s, Quechua was dominant in S Peru. As the Incas' empire expanded, their language became the administrative and commercial tongue from N Ecuador to central Chile. After their conquest of the Incas in the 16th cent., the Spaniards spread the use of Quechua beyond the Inca empire.

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books on: Quechua  - 875 results

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Sounds like Life: Sound-Symbolic Grammar, Performance, and Cognition in Pastaza Quechua
Book by Janis B. Nuckolls; Oxford, 1996
Subjects: Quechua Language--Aspect, Quechua Language--Ecuador--Pastaza (Province), Quechua Language--Onomatopoeic Words
...Performance, and Cognition in Pastaza Quechua Janis B. Nuckolls SOUNDS LIKE LIFE...Performance, and Cognition in Pastaza Quechua Janis B. Nuckolls New York Oxford...performance, and cognition in Pastaza Quechua / Janis B. Nuckolls. p. cm.-- Oxford...
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Knowledge and Learning in the Andes: Ethnographic Perspectives
Book by Henry Stobart, Rosaleen Howard; University of Liverpool Press, 2002
Subjects: Andes Region--Intellectual Life, Education--Andes Region, Educational Anthropology--Andes Region, Indians Of South America--Andes Region--Ethnoscience, Indians Of South America--Education--Andes Region, Quechua Indians--Education, Quechua Indians--Ethnoscience
...through looking at traditions of birth in Quechua- and Aymara-speaking areas, and at migrant...original title of the conference was the Quechua word watunakuy, which expresses the...as hegemonic processes take hold. The Quechua language reveals evidence of this: the...
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Indians of the Andes: Aymaras and Quechuas
Book by Harold Osborne; Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1952
Subjects: Aymara Indians, Indians Of South America--Bolivia, Indians Of South America--Peru, Quechua Indians
...INDIANS OF THE ANDES AYMARAS AND QUECHUAS by HAROLD OSBORNE ROUTLEDGE...two, which are from one block 13.Quechua Indians in the Plaza at Pisac near Cuzco...of these peoples, the Aymaras and the Quechuas, so far as can be known or conjectured...
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Hidden Messages: Representation and Resistance in Andean Colonial Drama
Book by Raquel Chang-Rodríguez; Bucknell University Press, 1999
Subjects: Indians Of South America--First Contact With Europeans, Peruvian Drama--To 1800--History And Criticism, Quechua Drama--History And Criticism
...Peruvian drama-History and criticism. 2. Quechua drama-History and criticism. 3. Indians...of Religious and Scenic Arts in the Quechua Play Usca Paucar 59 4 Expanding Baroque...y sumisi6n en el Usca Paucar, un drama quechua colo- nial. Ed. Mercedes L6pez Baralt...
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Domination and Cultural Resistance: Authority and Power among an Andean People
Book by Roger Neil Rasnake; Duke University Press, 1988
Subjects: Indians Of South America--Bolivia--Government Relations, Indians Of South America--Bolivia--Yura--Ethnic Identity, Indians Of South America--Bolivia--Yura--Social Life And Customs, Quechua Indians--Ethnic Identity, Quechua Indians--Government Relations, Quechua Indians--Social Life And Customs, Yura (Bolivia)--Social Life And Customs
...Domination and cultural resistance. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Quechua Indians -- Social life and customs. 2. Quechua Indians -- Ethnic identity. 3. Quechua Indians -- Government relations. 4. Indians of South America -- Bolivia...
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journal articles on: Quechua  - 129 results

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Coplas De Todos Santos in Cochabamba: Language, Music, and Performance in Bolivian Quechua Song Dueling
Journal article by Thomas Solomon; Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 107, 1994
Subjects: Folklore, Folklore--United States, Manners And Customs, United States--Social Life And Customs
...Language, Music, and Performance in Bolivian Quechua Song Dueling This article provides an analysis of a Quechua song-duel performance from the Bolivian...larger tradition of copla singing in the Quechua-speaking areas of Cochabamba Department...
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The Social Life of Numbers: A Quechua Ontology of Numbers and Philosophy of Arithmetic
Journal article by Tristan Platt; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 5, 1999
Subjects: Books--Reviews
The Social Life of Numbers: A Quechua Ontology of Numbers and Philosophy of...subtracting, multiplying and dividing in the Quechua dialects of his sources. Odds and evens...yielding ten offspring, five of each sex. Quechua, like English, has a rigorously decimal...
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The Inka Married the Earth: Integrated Outcrops and the Making of Place
Journal article by Carolyn Dean; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 89, 2007
Subjects: Memorials & monuments, Plate tectonics
...Place by Carolyn Dean According to a Quechua story told in the Andes today, the ancient...called Pachamama by the Inka and other Quechua speakers, appears to have readily consented...between Inka and earth described in the Quechua story related above. Such sites of intercourse...
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Writing in the Margin: Maternal and Indigenous Space in Entrada Libre
Journal article by Susan Lucas Dobrian; College Literature, Vol. 22, 1995
Subjects: American Literature--History And Criticism, English Literature--History And Criticism
...Hispanic/indigenous; Christian word/Quechua magic; paternal/maternal; and conscious...underlying magical and mythic quality of the Quechuas. Whereas the Spanish presence represents...Although the ancient splendor of the Quechuas has been compressed into a marginal...
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Political Institutions and the Evanescence of Power: Making History in Highland Bolivia
Journal article by Stuart Alexander Rockefeller; Ethnology, Vol. 37, 1998
Subjects: Bolivia--Politics and government, Community power--Social aspects, Quechuas--Social aspects
...Alexander Rockefeller The Bolivian Quechua community of Quirpini appears to be governed...political authorities) of the indigenous Quechua community called Quirpini was to perform...residents of the outlying communities speak Quechua as their first language. The regional...
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magazine articles on: Quechua  - 141 results

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Course Watch: Indigenous Language to Be Offered at NYU
Magazine article; Diverse Issues in Higher Education, Vol. 25, June 26, 2008
Subjects: Caribbean studies, Linguistics
...indigenous language in South America, Quechua, will be offered to undergraduate and...first of a four-semester sequence of Quechua. From Argentina to Colombia, more than 10 million people speak Quechua, as it was the principal language of...
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Aymara Past, Aymara Future
Magazine article by Silvia Rivera Cusicanoui; Report on the Americas, Vol. 25, 1991
Subjects: Latin America, Latin America--Foreign Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--Latin America
...dictatorships, the army opened fire on a crowd of Quechua Indians from the region of Tolata and...Workshop in La Paz. or culturally mixed Quechua peasants had been in the fore of the...the Andean concept of pachakuti -- a Quechua and Aymara word meaning the disruption...
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The Hand That Feeds Us
Magazine article by Susanna Rance; Report on the Americas, Vol. 25, 1991
Subjects: Latin America--Foreign Relations--United States
...stark altiplano: Though 67.5% of the population is Aymara, Quechua or of the 40-odd lowland groups, the white minority in power...nation in the Americas: 65% of the population is Aymara or Quechua and 2.5% belongs to some 40 lowland ethnic groups. Almost...
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Five Languages, One Dictionary
Magazine article by Mike Ceaser; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 51, November 1999
Subjects: Bolivia--Languages, Electronic dictionaries and encyclopedias--Social aspects, Multilingualism--Social aspects, Rural population--Communication systems
...Portuguese and the indigenous languages Aymara, Quechua, and Guarani--the five most spoken languages...so that, for example, an Aymara words Quechua definition is also given in Spanish...coined terms, such as latapisq, o, in Quechua literally metal bird, to mean airplane...
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How to Speak Argentine
Magazine article by Leslie M. Mira; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 55, November 2003
Subjects: Spanish language--Study and teaching
...Patagonia hills to northern provinces where Quechua is spoken, to the port capital Buenos...as is the musical catingoso--a word of Quechua origin that means "smelly." "A dictionary...point to the indigenous influences of Quechua and Guarani in everyday spoken Spanish...
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newspaper articles on: Quechua  - 51 results

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The Ice Maiden Sings; Letters
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 11, 2007
...extraordinaryPeruvian singer Yma Sumac (fromIma Shumaq, Quechua for howbeautiful) singing Tumpa (Earthquake...anIndian/Spanish father, who raisedher as a Quechuan, there was arumour which she denied...extraordinaryPeruvian singer Yma Sumac (fromIma Shumaq, Quechua for howbeautiful) singing Tumpa (Earthquake...
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The Ice Maiden Sings; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 11, 2007
Subjects: Amin, Idi
...Peruvian singer Yma Sumac (from Ima Shumaq, Quechua for how beautiful) singing Tumpa (Earthquake...Indian/Spanish father, who raised her as a Quechuan, there was a rumour which she denied...Peruvian singer Yma Sumac (from Ima Shumaq, Quechua for how beautiful) singing Tumpa (Earthquake...
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The Ice Maiden Sings
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 11, 2007
...of extraordinaryPeruvian singer Yma Sumac (fromIma Shumaq, Quechua for howbeautiful) singing Tumpa (Earthquake). Sumac has the...Indian mother and anIndian/Spanish father, who raisedher as a Quechuan, there was arumour which she denied thatshe was an American...
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The Data Bank
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 10, 2008
Subjects: Banks (Finance)
...7.50) 245 miles; North South Divide (8.20) 234 miles; Fenners (9.20) 227 miles. LEICESTER: Midnight Chase (1.50) 173 miles; Quechua des Obeaux (3.20) 166 miles; Kitski (2.20) 159 miles; Kerayasi (1.20) Trigger Guard (2.50) 152 miles; Tempting Paradise...
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History of Poverty Lies Behind the Gold-Paved Streets of Peru
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 12, 2006
...surrounded by mountains and has huge cathedrals and parks in every direction. A lot of the building and street names are in Quechua, the Incan language native to Peru. The streets are cobblestone and a lot of them are very narrow, which makes me feel like...
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encyclopedia articles on: Quechua  - 11 results

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Quechua
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
QUECHUA Kechua both: kech oo , wa, or Quichua kech wa, linguistic...aboriginal language group in the Americas, the languages of the Quechuan family are spoken by peoples in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia...smaller populations in Ecuador and Argentina. Some 28 Quechuan languages are still in use. The official language of the...
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Kechua
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KECHUA see Quechua ; Native American languages . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Inca
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...an empire grown unwieldy, all who spoke Quechua became an "Inca class" by privilege and...needed. Thus transplanted, and dominated by Quechua colonists, the subject peoples had less...cosmology) allied themselves with the Quechua . However, it was not until the reigns...
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Aymara
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...patrilineal family unit. Contemporary Aymara and the related Quechua peasant culture is a blend of aboriginal, Spanish colonial...elements. See H. Osborne, Indians of the Andes, Aymaras and Quechuas (1952); J. Steward, ed., Handbook of South American Indians...
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Bolivia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Bolivian resort areas. Of the indigenous people, about 30% are Quechua and 25% are Aymara, but the citizens of European descent (some...maintained economic, political, and social hegemony. Spanish, Quechua, and Aymara are Bolivias official languages. A few indigenous...
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