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The Latin American Indigenous Languages guide provides useful resources about the Andean and indigenous languages literature, films, and culture of the Quechua, Aymara, Maya, Guarani, Zapotec, Nahuatl and mapuche people. This guide will also help you find links to other related resources in Latin America and the United States to support your curiosity. You can contact me if you have any questions or are interested in researching any topic related to Latin American indigenous languages and cultures. You can also recommend purchases related to Latin American indigenous languages or to suggest other content you would like to see in this guide. 

photo of kultrung, a percussioninstrument for the Mapuche people

Kultrung. Image taken from Wikipedia Commons.

Literature

Keywords

Keywords and related terms of a given topic help you find information. The graphic belows shows some keywords related to Latin American indigenous people. When you are searching you can use these terms, combine them, or find your own terms related to the topic. The keywords in the graphic are: cosmovision, indigenous knowledge, spirituality, indigenous rights, cultural practices, ancestral ties to the land, marginalization, indigeneity and pachamama.

graphic with keywords: cosmovision, indigenous knowledge, pachamama, spitituality, indigenous rights, cultural practices, ancestral ties to the land, marginalization and indigeneity

 

 

Books you can Find at Norlin

Poetry

These links will take you to our catalog OneSearch. When you open any of these links, you can continue your search by selecting the best filter for your search (left of your screen). With the filters you can select a genre, a region, a language, and a content type (book/eBook, journal article...)

Quechua poetry

Aymara poetry 

Guarani poetry

Mapuche poetry

Nahuatl poetry

Mayan poetry

Zapotec poetry

 

 

Films, Culture, Gender

Films

Several films display Latin American indigenous languages, topics on Andean issues, indigenous identity, indigenous knowledge, marginalization, preservation of cultural and natural heritage, the role of indigenous women, capitalism, expropriation, and appropriation, among others. 

Although the topics of these films are intertwined throughout the films on many occasions, they offer you a glance into subjects such as interculturality, intercultural dialog, indigeneity,  genocide, abuse, marginalization, poverty, suicide, socio-economic gaps, historical wrongs, and inequality.

Films

Weaving

Weaving is a part of different indigenous people's cultures. Generally, this artisanal activity is learned during childhood where girls knit their first works. For this cultural activity women use alpaca or sheep wool. The artistic designs express their cosmovisión (worldview) believes and assert their indigenous identity forged since pre-Columbian times.

photograph of a woman weaving.

Photograph used under the Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 2.0.

Open Access

Community Projects

Archives

What are Archives?

Academic archives collect, preserve, and provide access to primarily unique, unpublished primary source materials, in order to preserve institutional and cultural memory.  These materials may include personal papers, organizational records, photographs, moving images, sound recordings, ephemera, or other one-of-a-kind items.  The collections of academic archives usually document the history of the university or college, as well as other specialty collecting areas defined by the archive.

Photo of artist Roberto Mamani Mamani

Roberto Mamani Mamani. Photo used under the Creative Commons License (CC BY-SA 3.0). 

Throughout the Land

Through the land

The pueblos originarios' presence and land in this continent expands throughout Souther, Central and North America. Here you will find links to museums, blogs, libraries, educative centers, and websites that hopefully will provide useful knowledge to you.

Aymara shawl

Aymara shawl. Image used under the Creative Commons Lincese CC BY-SA 2.0.

Museums, Libraries, Educative Centers