Quechua religious terms in the departments of Apurimac and San Martin, Peru

[摘要] My thesis "Quechua Religious Terms in the Departments ofApurimac and San Martin, Peru" deals with the problemof changing meaning-loads of Quechua religious terms.I chose the departments (counties) of Apurimac andSan Martin as representative of a montana (jungle)and sierra (mountain) Quechua culture respectively.The purpose of the thesis is to show though the analysisfrom a corpus of one hundred and thirty-two terms thatQuechua religious terms still carry much of tine nearingload they had before the Spanish conquest despite morethan four hundred years of religious and other culturalpressures. This study also highlights the difficultiesand unresearched areas in the fields of dialectologyand folklore of the Quechua culture, a culture that isstill very much the life of some ten million peoplein Latin America today.

[发布机构] University:The University of St Andrews;Department:Research Centres and Institutes