Aymara
- proper noun
- /aɪˈmɑːrə/
- Pastoral workers conceive of the Aymara as a "people of the Bible."
- missionary work among Aymara
- Aymara and Quechua
- Aymara in Bolivia
Examples
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Lucas Choque, the leader of the local excavators' association, stood in a small group of diggers speaking quickly in Aymara, the indigenous language of the Bolivian altiplano.
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In the early 1980s, they expanded their missionary activity among the Aymara, inheriting an altiplano parish from another pastoral team.
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I changed my method of work, my way of seeing the Aymara themselves, and this helped me very much.
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But without forcing it. I asked him if he was referring to Aymara culture.
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The Aymara had been evangelized for nearly four centuries.
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But there is one thing that all the mainstream archaeologists agree upon, that the Aymara didn't have any writing.
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For their part, however, the Aymara professed a vibrant Catholic identity and quickly pressed the young priest into ritual service.
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Hernando felt he and his pastoral team were treated less like special guests, less like outsiders by the Aymara.
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But stressing the integrity of this sociohistorical formation and the complicated and implicated positions of the missionaries and Aymara within it need not mask the power relations that suffuse it.
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In Bolivia and Peru, the Aymara are known for their rich cultural traditions that have been preserved for generations.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Aymara is the name this indigenous group in the Andes use for themselves and for their speech, so the word Aymara refers to that 'people' or their 'language'.