Andean Aymara

Here’s a video of Maria Marlene and her son, Edwin Banegas Flores with their donkey, planting corn in their chacra in China, near Muylaque (referred to in the previous post below).

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Greetings from Calacoa (3436m, S16°44.341’, W070°40.999’). Just arrived here after two weeks in Muylaque in transportation generously provided by the Mayor Rogelio Vizcarra Taco, a man who also kindly offered me a room in the visitor’s center.  The main purpose of this visit is to charge up my laptop, camera battery, and other equipment as [...]

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A special thanks to Noreen LeMieux for her generous donation to the Andean Outreach Program. Her support will provide each of the roughly 50 Muylaque children with a small bag containing a toothbrush, toothpaste, and soap. In this place where dental hygene is basically non-existant and with the additional importance of hand-washing given potential H1N1 [...]

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Edwin Banegas Flores, my principle linguistic consultant, and I have just traveled from Lima to Puna via Arequipa by bus. We’ll be in Puno for the next few days while we arrange transport to Moquegua and hopefully get a chance to see the floating islands. This visit is made all the more interesting given some [...]

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