Overview

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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Author:   P. Heggarty ,  A. Pearce
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.495kg
ISBN:  

9780230100145

ISBN 10:   0230100147
Pages:   266
Publication Date:   09 November 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: History, Linguistics, and the Andean Past: A Much-Needed Conversation - Adrian J. Pearce and Paul Heggarty Part I: The Colonial Era * Language and Society in Early Colonial Peru - Gabriela Ramos A Visit to the Children of Chaupi Ñamca: From Myth to Andean History via Onomastics and Demography - Frank Salomon and Sue Grosboll What Was the 'Lengua General' of Colonial Peru? - César Itier 'Mining the Data' on the Huancayo-Huancavelica Quechua Frontier - Adrian J. Pearce and Paul Heggarty Part II: Reform, Independence, & The Early Republic The Bourbon Reforms, Independence, and the Spread of Quechua and Aymara - Kenneth J. Andrien Reindigenisation and Native Languages in Peru's Long Nineteenth Century (1795-1940) - Adrian J. Pearce Quechua Political Literature in Early Republican Peru (1810-1876) - Alan Durston Part III: Towards Present and Future The Quechua Language in the Andes Today: Between Statistics, the State, and Daily Life - Rosaleen Howard 'Ya no podemos regresar al quechua': Modernity, Identity, and Language Choice among Migrants in Urban Peru - Tim Marr

Reviews

An illuminating set of readings that shines a bright light onto the cultural and social history of language use--both spoken and written--in the Andes, from the Spanish conquest of the Incas, through the turbulence of the Colonial era and down to the present day. The book succeeds by liberating the study of languages (primarily Quechua, Aymara, and Spanish) from the formalism of linguistics and the constraints of academic history. In the process, the authors show how the performance and interaction of Native and European languages played a vital, creative, and transformative role in the formation of the Andean nations. --Gary Urton, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian Studies, Harvard University In bridging history, linguistics, and anthropology, this fine volume breaks new ground. It should now be unthinkable that scholars probe the impact of the Spanish Conquest, the legacy of the Incas, and the state of the contemporary Andes without considering language. The atomized fields

Author Information

Adrian J. Pearce is a Lecturer in Brazilian and Spanish-American History at King’s College, London, UK.

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