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.
Kultrung. Image taken from Wikipedia Commons.
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.
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The Citizen Factory: Schooling and Cultural Production in Bolivia
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Lessons from a Quechua Strongwoman
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Performing Kinship: Narrative, Gender, and the Intimacies of Power in the Andes
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Creating Dialogues: Indigenous Perceptions and Changing Forms of Leadership in Amazonia
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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.
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 used under the Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 2.0.
Weaving Chiapas: Maya woemen's lives in a changing world
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e-book: Weaving a Future: tourism, cloth & culture on an Andean island
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Public domain image of machi women. The machi is a healer and a religious leader for the Mapuche people.
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Roberto Mamani Mamani. Photo used under the Creative Commons License (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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. Image used under the Creative Commons Lincese CC BY-SA 2.0.
