History and Language in the Andes

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Introduction History, Linguistics, and the Andean Past: A Much-Needed Conversation....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Language and Society in Early Colonial Peru....Pages 19-38
A Visit to the Children of Chaupi Ñamca: From Myth to History via Onomastics and Demography....Pages 39-61
What Was the Lengua General of Colonial Peru?....Pages 63-85
“Mining the Data” on the Huancayo-Huancavelica Quechua Frontier....Pages 87-109
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
The Bourbon Reforms, Independence, and the Spread of Quechua and Aymara....Pages 113-133
Reindigenization and Native Languages in Peru’s Long Nineteenth Century (1795–1940)....Pages 135-163
Quechua Political Literature in Early Republican Peru (1810–1876)....Pages 165-186
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
The Quechua Language in the Andes Today: Between Statistics, the State, and Daily Life....Pages 189-213
“Ya No Podemos Regresar al Quechua”: Modernity, Identity, and Language Choice among Migrants in Urban Peru....Pages 215-238
Back Matter....Pages 239-266