The author conducts a paradigmatic analysis of six versions of the competitions between Inkarrí and Collarrí. He shows that the meaning of the competition is not in, the victory but in the basis of the exchange between the ...

Riddles represent a form of competition in the Andes, they constitute social and recreational events; They include varied content, and are often satires of everything external to the community. They reveal the peasant's ...

Based on two texts collected by the author, she elaborates a literary review of the adventures of Cori-lnca, the hero of order, and Yoashico-Inca, the anti-hero, the founder of the rebellions, of the great transformations.

Some reflections on the marginality in the lyrics of chicha music and in a story by Arguedas.

The author, in a paper presented in the VI National Folklore Congress of Huaraz, Ancash, in 1983, exposes the myth that we reproduce in this article.

This article reproduces some general ideas about the problems of the Peruvian educational system vis-à-vis the Andean culture. It advances some research proposals and develops a theoretical position that underlines, alongside ...

The Pacarina of the town of "San Salvador del Mundo" of Pampas (Chancay valley) is the Mango hill. The repeated extirpations of idolatry suffered by "its children", the miscegenation and the passage of time have, little ...

The author presents a new revision of the Inkarrí myth. The story retains its colloquial style. The reader will be able to read it in the original Quechua text or in its Spanish translation.