The OOW Memorial was made a tribute to the victims of the internal armed conflict in Peru (1980-2000). He is the work of artist Lika Mutal in coordination with various human rights activists and is a continuation of the work carried out by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR). The anniversa...

The notion of hechicería (sorcery) stood at the centre of the encounters between Andean people and Europeans from the 16th to the beginning of the 18th century. It shaped European perceptions and actions; it led to the persecution of Andean people. The notion of hechicería also began to shape Andean...

The Condorito story has a long history of production and reception, unusual in Latin America. This article seeks to answer the question: why Condorito is still published and read. To this end, it focuses on interpreting his main character (Condorito), as well as his relationship with the world and w...

Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, many Latin-American writers ventured themselves in the creation of written versions of the traditional Andean oral tale Manchay Puytu. In this article, I propose myself to analyse how some of these versions reflected projects of society conceived by th...

The Condorito story has a long history of production and reception, unusual in Latin America. This article seeks to answer the question: why Condorito is still published and read. To this end, it focuses on interpreting his main character (Condorito), as well as his relationship with the world and w...

Abstract: Pacchas were ritual vessels used in libations and expressed elements of pre-Hispanic cosmology in the Andes long after the Spanish conquest. This article describes, for the first time, annular pacchas from Cusco from the Colonial Period and the 19th and 20th centuries. These pacchas are di...

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Although the societies in the south-west of Colombia shared a technological and cosmological tradition, during this period, with many elements extending on both sides of the current Colombo-Ecuadorian border, investigations into specific aspects of this tradition remain relatively limited. Here is o...

This photo essay opens a window on the life of the Misak Indians in the northern Colombian Andes. The Misak, who live in the high plateaus, struggle to keep their sacred territory and to reproduce their traditional knowledge. During fieldwork in 2016, I explored the Misak’s traditional learning meth...

The Condorito story has a long history of production and reception, unusual in Latin America. This article seeks to answer the question: why Condorito is still published and read. To this end, it focuses on interpreting his main character (Condorito), as well as his relationship with the world and w...

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