Quechua religious terms in the departments of Apurimac and San Martin, Peru
Abstract
My thesis "Quechua Religious Terms in the Departments of
Apurimac and San Martin, Peru" deals with the problem
of changing meaning-loads of Quechua religious terms.
I chose the departments (counties) of Apurimac and
San Martin as representative of a montana (jungle)
and sierra (mountain) Quechua culture respectively.
The purpose of the thesis is to show though the analysis
from a corpus of one hundred and thirty-two terms that
Quechua religious terms still carry much of tine nearing
load they had before the Spanish conquest despite more
than four hundred years of religious and other cultural
pressures. This study also highlights the difficulties
and unresearched areas in the fields of dialectology
and folklore of the Quechua culture, a culture that is
still very much the life of some ten million people
in Latin America today.
Type
Thesis, PhD Doctor of Philosophy
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