The Andean Quechua-speaking peoples; the largest Indigenous population of South America, ongoing across the central Andes.
Foundational ethnography of contemporary Quechua community life, ritual and identity in the southern Peruvian Andes.
The standard one-volume synthesis of Inca history, society and the Andean world of the Quechua-speaking peoples; sweeping regional/era context for the central Andes. Era/regional context.
Foundational primary source on Inca history and Quechua society written by a mestizo author descended from Inca royalty (orig. Comentarios Reales, Part One 1609); a contemporary insider account of the Quechua-speaking Andean world. Primary source.
Arguedas's autobiographical-feeling novel of a boy raised between Spanish and Quechua worlds in the 1920s Peruvian Andes, deeply grounded in Quechua culture and language.
Celebrated indigenista novel following a Quechua indigenous community (comunidad) dispossessed of its ancestral land in the Peruvian Andes.