History and Language in the Andes [electronic resource] /
Heggarty, P.editor.
Pearce, A.editor.
The modern world began with the clash of civilisations between Spaniards and native Americans. Their interplay and struggles ever since are mirrored in the fates of the very languages they spoke. The conquistadors wrought theirs into a new 'world language'; yet the Andes still host the New World's greatest linguistic survivor, Quechua. Historians and linguists see this through different - but complementary - perspectives. This book is a meeting of minds, long overdue, to weave them together. It ranges from Inca collapse to the impacts of colonial rule, reform, independence, and the modern-day trends that so threaten native language here with its ultimate demise.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Note on Contributors; Acknowledgments; A Note on Spellings of Terms in Indigenous Languages; Introduction History, Linguistics, and the Andean Past: A Much-Needed Conversation; Part I The Colonial Era; Chapter 1 Language and Society in Early Colonial Peru; Chapter 2 A Visit to the Children of Chaupi Ñamca: From Myth to History via Onomastics and Demography; Chapter 3 What Was the Lengua General of Colonial Peru?; Chapter 4 "Mining the Data" on the Huancayo-Huancavelica Quechua Frontier
Part II Reform, Independence, and the Early RepublicChapter 5 The Bourbon Reforms, Independence, and the Spread of Quechua and Aymara; Chapter 6 Reindigenisation and Native Languages in Peru's Long Nineteenth Century (1795-1940); Chapter 7 Quechua Political Literature in Early Republican Peru (1810-1876); Part III Towards Present and Future; Chapter 8 The Quechua Language in the Andes Today: Between Statistics, the State, and Daily Life; Chapter 9 " Ya No Podemos Regresar al Quechua": Modernity, Identity, and Language Choice among Migrants in Urban Peru; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The modern world began with the clash of civilisations between Spaniards and native Americans. Their interplay and struggles ever since are mirrored in the fates of the very languages they spoke. The conquistadors wrought theirs into a new 'world language'; yet the Andes still host the New World's greatest linguistic survivor, Quechua. Historians and linguists see this through different - but complementary - perspectives. This book is a meeting of minds, long overdue, to weave them together. It ranges from Inca collapse to the impacts of colonial rule, reform, independence, and the modern-day trends that so threaten native language here with its ultimate demise.
Ethnology-Latin America.
Ethnicity.
America-History.
Political science.
Area studies.
World politics.
Latin American Culture.
Ethnicity Studies.
History of the Americas.
Political Science.
Area Studies.
Political History.