Andean Aymara

Greetings from Amsterdam! As I begin to go through all the data and photos from the last trip to Peru, I will start putting some of the highlights online. So, there’s a new page under [images] about an interesting place near Muylaque called Utaparqi. Check it out here.

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Maraptis jilatanaka, kullakanaka! Nax jichuruw markaxar avionna sarawxaxa, wali jayawa… ukat kuttanihaw - kimsaqallaqun nax Muylaqi markar sarawxaxa. Hikisinkama, yusilopay!
Hello from Tacna. Well, the three months are over. The last few weeks in Muylaque and Sijuaya went productively, I worked 10 hour days, from sun-up to well past dark, and it paid off - [...]

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On November 1 the people of Muylaque, together with the people of other villages all over the area celebrate All Saint’s Day. Preparation begins on the last day of October, when, in the early morning, all the single adults go to the graveyard, in the mountains surrounding Muylaque, and clean the area, hacking away the [...]

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Here are some of the faces of Aymara speakers from Muylaque, Sijuaya, San Cristobal, and Calacoa who participated in the research project. ¡Yusilupai!

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Hello from Moquegua. Arrived here a couple days ago to back-up data and work with a couple consultants, Elmer Banegas Flores and his brother, Edwin Banegas Flores, who are spending a few days here. The research comes along well and the project is quickly growing and expanding as the data grows. The biggest hurdle is [...]

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Greetings from Peru! The research continues as planned. Today Radio Calacoa invited me to do an interview with their host, Prof Gino Mendoza Fernandez Davila, in which we discussed the project and asked for the cooperation of the locals in the communities of the area. This was an excellent forum to discuss the project since [...]

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Elizabeth Lowe (LAS) and M.J. Hardman (Linguistics) received a $156,992 three–year grant from NSF’s Documenting Endangered Language program to preserve the Jaqaru and Kawki languages of Peru.

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The Yale Daily News reports Wednesday that a third round of talks which took place last week between Peruvian delegates and Yale officials to determine the future of archaeological artifacts taken from Machu Picchu by American historian Hiram Bingham nearly a century ago did not reach any resolution. In fact, both sides seem more intent on [...]

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Peruvian, Polish and American scientists have discovered what they believed to be pre-Inca tombs and archeological remains during a 10-day expedition to a never-before-explored area of Peru’s Colca Canyon

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La Señora de la Máscara: La primera tumba wari hallada intacta en la huaca Pucllana

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