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.

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

Inhalt
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