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🗻 Andean group 🧵 From the Andes
Aymara

Aymara

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Relating to a native people of the Andes, their language, or their culture
  • adjective
  • /aɪˈmɑːrə/
translation icon : aymara
  • There is a photograph of Quechua and Aymara miners in Bolivia who reaffirm their identity through the Diablo dance.
  • Aymara culture
  • Aymara communities
  • Aymara catechists

Examples

  • Aymara religiosity is valorized always with respect to a posited transcendent field of Christian meaning.

    Academic text (2002)

  • For example, some radical Aymara activists in Bolivia are equally skeptical of capitalism and socialism.

    Academic text (2012)

  • The resilient Aymara Indians farm and herd their livestock here as they have for centuries.

    Academic text (2003)

  • Aymara catechists and the Aymara communities they serve in contemporary Bolivia.

    Academic text (2002)

  • The growing proximity to Aymara culture is also indexed spatially in pastoral practice.

    Academic text (2002)

  • Each season, I’ve worked with a crew of Aymara excavators from the village of Tiwanaku and nearby communities.

    Academic text (2003)

  • "In your communal organization, you express and reveal God," declared a (Brazilian) pastoral worker to a gathering of Aymara catechists.

    Academic text (2002)

  • I address contemporary Catholic missionization and the shifting discourses and practices of Aymara locality entailed by shifting pastoral strategies as a window onto this process.

    Academic text (2002)

  • The Aymara people have a rich cultural heritage that includes unique traditions and languages.

  • Aymara music often features traditional instruments that reflect their vibrant culture.

Surface Forms

Aymara positive

Etymology

Aymara comes from the name the people in the Andes use for themselves, so when we call something Aymara it means it is 'of the Aymara people', their language, or their culture.