History and Language in the Andes

1. Introduction History, Linguistics, and the Andean Past: A Much-Needed Conversation
Adrian J. Pearce, Paul Heggarty

Part I. The Colonial Era

2. Language and Society in Early Colonial Peru
Gabriela Ramos

3. A Visit to the Children of Chaupi Ñamca: From Myth to History via Onomastics and Demography
Frank Salomon, Sue Grosboll

4. What Was the Lengua General of Colonial Peru?
César Itier

5. “Mining the Data” on the Huancayo-Huancavelica Quechua Frontier
Adrian J. Pearce, Paul Heggarty

Part II. Reform, Independence, and the Early Republic

6. The Bourbon Reforms, Independence, and the Spread of Quechua and Aymara
Kenneth J. Andrien

7. Reindigenization and Native Languages in Peru’s Long Nineteenth Century (1795–1940)
Adrian J. Pearce

8. Quechua Political Literature in Early Republican Peru (1810–1876)
Alan Durston

Part III. Towards Present and Future

9. The Quechua Language in the Andes Today: Between Statistics, the State, and Daily Life
Rosaleen Howard

10. “Ya No Podemos Regresar al Quechua”: Modernity, Identity, and Language Choice among Migrants in Urban Peru
Tim Marr

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Latin American Culture, Ethnicity Studies, History of the Americas, Political Science, Area Studies, Political History