Publication Date
Spring 2025
Abstract
In this report, I collected a series of stories, legends, and narrations from various people in the community of Paru Paru, a 45-minute drive north of Pisac. Paru Paru is a town of 140 families, the vast majority Quechua-speaking. I interviewed various people, with varying ages between 25 and 90 years old using a sociolinguistic and cultural anthropology lens. I focused on collecting recordings of my participants speaking in Quechua, to help with assuring that the culture and history of the town will not be lost with the years. I found various common themes, such as origin stories that explain the form of the mountains and the names of the lagoons. I classified the stories in two distinct groups: ancestral stories that do not have a specified time period and stories that are set in a particular era. The interviewees also distinguished between stories/myths that are considered fiction and legends, which are considered historical and true.
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Recommended Citation
Hansen, Calypso, "Tradiciones orales andinas: métodos de preservar la memoria e historia indígena en el pueblo de Paru Paru" (2025). Peru: Indigenous Peoples and Globalization. 10.
https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/per/10