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	International Review of Mission: The gospel and the Aymara culture.@ HighBeam Research
		Aymaran cultural practices were adversely affected by the Spanish colonizers and Protestant missionaries who claimed to possess the religious truth.
		The author discusses how this dilution of Aymaran culture has gradually led to dissolution of their essence as a people.
		Some Aymarans assimilated the foreign culture while others denounced the foreign values contradictory to the original.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:18144629&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (208 words)

	bolivia.indymedia.org \| Aymaran city covered with blood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		A woman from Miraflores, a residential neighborhood of La Paz, asked that everyone stay inside, fearing for her own children, but not for the other people that are suffering in the sieged Aymaran city.
		There was never any solidarity from La Paz for the indigenous and the impoverished people and now they only care about the tranquility in their own houses.
		The doorman of Pachamama (aymaran for "mother earth" - tr.) radio explains that for reporting what is happening, they are being threatened with death.
	bolivia.indymedia.org /en/2003/10/3112.shtml (270 words)

	MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Popular Aymaran Music of Bolivia
		Because the Aymara were conquered and absorbed by the Inca Empire about the late 15th century, much of the music of this group is based around the Inca pentatonic (five-tone) scale.
		This example illustrates the combination of traditional Aymaran music with European stringed instruments.
		It is taken from a composition called “Song of the Condor.” The condor is a powerful symbol among the Aymara, and its appearance is a good omen for all.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461532785/Popular_Aymaran_Music_of_Bolivia.html (159 words)

	americas.org - Lynchings and Aymara Nationalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		However, these statistics are more than a decade old, and do not include the hundreds of thousands of indigenous and mestizos whose dress or cultural practices are Aymara, even though they have adopted the official language of their respective countries.
		Corruption, the economic and political crises, and the rejection of racism are germinating tendencies towards Aymaran nationalism.
		These tendencies might be favored among opponents of Aymaran nationalism in order to encourage the confrontation between highland and lowland Bolivians so that the Tarija gas pipeline will pass through Chile.
	www.americas.org /item_15110 (966 words)

	Aymaran languages -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Some scholars classify the Aymaran group and the Quechuan group together in the Quechumaran stock.
		In addition, the Aymaran language was anciently spoken in...
		Quechumaran, which is composed of the Quechuan and Aymaran families, is the stock with the largest number of speakers—7,000,000 for Quechuan and 1,000,000 for Aymaran—and is found mainly in the Andean highlands extending from southern Colombia to northern Argentina.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9011504?tocId=9011504 (708 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Multimedia - Aymaran Music, Bolivia
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		Because the Aymara were conquered and absorbed by the Incan empire around 1100, much of the music of this group is based on the Incan pentatonic (five-tone) scale.
		This example, taken from a composition called “Song of the Condor”, illustrates the combination of traditional Aymaran music with European stringed instruments.
	au.encarta.msn.com /media_461564468/Aymaran_Music_Bolivia.html (117 words)

	ON THE ROLE OF CREATION AND ORIGIN MYTHS
		He also argued that the Quechuans, Aymarans and Araucanians had to originate from the same ancient and anthropologically close ancestral nation who spoke a language related to theirs, and was developed to a degree that could influence them, the younger peoples.
		The chullpa's, or the burial towers around Titicaca belonged supposedly to the Aymarans; still, the earliest settlers of Tiahuanaco mummified their dead similarly to the Inca, similarities could be found also between the pottery from the golden age of Tiahuanaco and that of the Inca - the ceramic ware of Aymarans is considerably different.
		The Aymarans could not destroy the powerful civilisation all at once and founded the kingdom of Colla, which in the 15th century was incorporated into the state of the same Inca who were once driven from their homeland by the Collas.
	haldjas.folklore.ee /folklore/vol12/inca.htm (2840 words)

	Aymaran languages - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Aymaran languages - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Aymaran languages contains research on
		Aymaran languages, Language families and Indigenous languages of the Andes.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Aymaran_languages (130 words)

	[Marxism] The challenges facing the Bolivian left (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Morales is of mixed Aymaran and Quechuan descent and got his start as a coca farmer, or cocalero.
		One of the most important is the Aymaran nationalist and former guerrilla Felipe Quispe (a k a "El Mallku," the Condor), who now heads a large peasant union called the CSUTCB.
		Quispe insists his vision of an Aymaran nation is not atavistic or fanciful.
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/marxism/2005-June/026999.html (3315 words)

	Welcome to the University of Wales Swansea Website
		The Aymaran and Quechuan peoples, who dominate the highland regions, constitute by far the largest indigenous groups in the country, however, within the lowland regions over forty ethnic minority and indigenous groups coexist and form a further 2.5% of the overall population (Rance, op.cit.).
		Aymaran and Quechuan peasant farmers in the Andean highlands, for example, "constitute the bulk of the extremely poor in the country" (World Bank, 1996:183).
		The main problems faced by rural (indigenous) communities, and the significant factors in their high levels of poverty and malnourishment, are the lack of access to a productive land-base, lack of local infrastructure, such as roads, clean water, and electricity, and highly restricted access to basic services such as health care and educational provision (op.cit:182).
	www.swan.ac.uk /cds/devres/pubs/pid23.htm (13399 words)

	Can We Afford Contentment?
		Most of these Aymaran natives carried burlap bags of potatoes and other vegetables from their harvest.
		The Aymaran people wore their finest clothing, and the musicians donned the apparel of colorful costumes.
		The scripture and sermon were delivered in Spanish, the Aymaran dialect, and English.
	www.providenceumc.org /sermons/1998_Sermons/s_980927.htm (2138 words)

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		In La Paz, informal sector economics does not merely function as a compliment to the regular economy, it rivals it for control of the day to day domestic marketplace.
		Aymaran women constitute the largest part of this street economy.
		Above: Aymaran women sell palm fans in the plaza in front of the San Francisco Cathedral on Palm Sunday, while across the street you can find fruit, and toilet paper, and chocolate bunnies (below).
	www.sapoyrana.net /along/lapaz.html (233 words)

	Nick Buxton :: Culture
		Today is the Aymaran new year and winter solstice in Bolivia.
		There was a buzz in the crowd, some fairly drunk Bolivians swaying next to a bonfire, someone playing a didgeridoo (see, just like Glastonbury) and little attention paid to the official speeches by various Aymaran dignatories and priests.
		After a tour around the site, we had a small ceremony presided over by an Aymaran priest where we burnt offerings of coca leaves, sweets and an attractive-looking llama foetus (photo included in the gallery) to pray for a happy and prosperous new year.
	nickbuxton.civiblog.org /blog/Culture (1616 words)

	Grupo Aymara - Alirina: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		The Aymara are a group of Bolivian Indians who, for millenniums, have lived in the high altitudes of the Andes.
		Despite the brutality the Aymara suffered at the hands of Spanish invaders centuries ago, the Aymaran culture has survived--according to this CD's liner notes, three million people of Aymaran heritage were still living in the Bolivian Andes in the late 1980s.
		Ever since it was founded in the early 1970s, Grupo Aymara [+] has dedicated itself to preserving the traditional, time-honored music of the Aymara.
	www.music.com /release/alirina/1 (281 words)

	Aymar Ccopacatty: A helpful web he weaves By Kristine M. Feeks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		First, however, he will travel to Bolivia and Peru to help preserve his Aymaran ancestors’ ancient weaving traditions, which are endangered by growing industrialization.
		The blankets Ccopacatty learned to make when he was 9 years old are central to the Aymaran ideology.
		Although Ccopacatty is well versed in the iconography of Aymaran weavings, he emphasizes that his personal artwork is not a direct descendent of these traditions.
	www.blockislandtimes.com /news/2003/0614/News/029.html (562 words)

	Quechuan and Aymaran spelling shift - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		These spelling changes have not yet been made official, but today Bolivia is a multicultural country, and in La Paz radio is broadcast in 12 languages.
		Additionally, the inventories of the Quechuan and Aymaran alphabets do not employ the vowels o or e, but Spanish and English orthography of Quechuan and Aymaran loan words often represent them with said vowels.
		This page was last modified 18:16, 28 November 2005.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Changes_in_spelling_of_Indian_names (178 words)

	PARALLAX - The Journal of Ethics and Globalization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		According to one Aymaran leader, Felipe Quispe, the Pachamama or Mother Earth had spoken: it was time to remove the current Americanized government and replace it with an Indian led coalition.
		My partner-in-crime seems perplexed that the Aymaran culture, beautiful and steeped in tradition, is beginning this move towards globalization and americanization.
		She believes this move is destructive and teaches the children of Bolivia to reject their culture.
	www.parallaxonline.org /debglobcul.html (1056 words)

	Encyclopedia: Aymaran languages
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		Aymaran languages The Aymaran languages are a Argentina.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Aymaran-languages (216 words)

	individual book page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		[A comprehensive and authoritative handbook of Aymaran studies, with emphasis on recent descriptive and comparative work that takes into account the internal diversity of the language family.
		— In C.-P.’s nomenclature, Aymaran (“Aymara”) is divided into two language-level branches, Central Aymaran (AC or “Tupino”), comprising the Jaqaru and Cauqui dialects, and Southern Aymaran (AS or “Collavino”), comprising the three regional dialects of Aymara proper, Northern, Intermediate, and Southern.
		Central Aymaran is spoken in a relatively small area near Lima, over 500 miles north of Southern Aymaran, and is probably the remnant of a more widespread Aymaran speech community that occupied much of northern and central Peru before the Quechuan expansion.
	linguistics.buffalo.edu /ssila/books/indbook/b150.htm (319 words)

	Mamani Mamani Biografia (eng), Mamani Mamani Biografi (eng)
		I come from long ago, from a magnificent and great empire, from a cast of sorcerers, holy men, and the masters of the sun.
		Being not accepted their union, they ran away to Cochapampa-land of the quechuas- to save their precious love, from witch Angélica and Roberto Mamani Mamani would be born.
		In Aymaran mythology, Illampu and Illimani are brothers.
	hem.bredband.net /mamani_mamani/html/biog_eng.html (905 words)

	Comparative Study of Andean Languages
		That is, we do not use the terms some writers in English have used, adding an –n to give an adjective form also to be used for referring to the whole family: Quechuan, Aymaran, and the putative Quechumaran.
		So some writers have sought to use this –n to distinguish between the Aymaran family, of which the Aymara language is just one of the surviving languages (albeit by far the most biggest), alongside the little known and endangered Jaqaru/Kawki language(s).
		Alongside Aymaran in English, other forms coined by linguists for to refer specifically to the family as a whole are Aru proposed by Alfredo Torero, and Jaqi proposed by Martha Hardman.
	www.quechua.org.uk /Eng/LanguageNames.htm (817 words)

	Atlanta IMC (((i))): Bolivia: Aymaran city covered with blood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Atlanta IMC (((i))): Bolivia: Aymaran city covered with blood
		The people of La Paz, who have been indifferent about the various massacres against the indigenous peasants, against the miners, against the poor city of El Alto, today tremble at their radios that are reporting on the slaughter the army is committing on the people of El Alto.
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	atlanta.indymedia.org /newswire/display/21728/index.php (323 words)

	Mission Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The events of 9/11 can drive us to foster hate and terror within, or can help us understand the plight of others and strengthen bonds among people to overcome the terror and hate in the world.
		Lay Missioner Jason Gehrig is an engineer who shares his skills with the indigenous Aymaran people in Bolivia.
		Living with pride in what they have accomplished, these Aymaran people are working to better their lives and their families' futures.
	www.mission-education.org /article.cfm?story_id=181&status=Active (304 words)

	aymaran - OneLook Dictionary Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "aymaran" is defined.
		Aymaran : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
		Phrases that include aymaran: aymaran languages, quechuan and aymaran spelling shift
	onelook.com /?w=aymaran (91 words)

	GRAIN \| Seedling \| 1998 \| NURTURING THE SEED IN THE PERU
		The relevance and importance of Andean cosmology to both rural development and the conservation of agricultural biodiversity is highlighted in this article, which explores the agri-culture of the Aymaran and Quechuan peoples of the Peruvian Andes.
		Here the seed is treated with the utmost dignity and respect and is considered an integral part of the whole community.
		That is why Quechuan and Aymaran peoples talk about "the living Andean world." Life in the Andes is a culture of the nurturing of harmony.
	www.grain.org /seedling?id=138 (3038 words)

	Aymaran languages escalade Aymaran languages
		Find aymaran languages and more at Lycos Search.
		It includes the Aymara language, also called Central Aymara, which has approximately 2.2 million speakers; 1.
		Jaqaru has approximately 2000 speakers in central Peru.
	www.find-ask.com /Encyclopedia/Aymaran_languages/Aymaran_languages.html (145 words)

	Chile Information Project -- "Santiago Times" -- Political, Environment, Human Rights, Economic News; February 11, 1997
		The program in Region I, under the direction of Tarapaca University, seeks to revert serious educational problems which border-dwelling children face as a result of the idiomatic mix they are exposed to, says Victoria Espinoza of the Chilean Language Academy.
		Indigenous children cannot understand the Spanish spoken by their professors because they have only heard the Aymaran Spanish of their parents.
		The Aymaran language has eight more consonants than the number used phonetically in Spanish, but also lacks five Spanish letters.
	ssdc.ucsd.edu /news/chip/h97/chip.19970211.html (1645 words)

	[www-features] proposal: English-born, Aymaran-speaking Anthropologist andhistorian being held in La Paz Women's Prison ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		She was caught with a small > amount of marijuana, which to her is a sacramental herb just as the > coca > leaf is to the Aymaran people she was studying in Bolivia.
		And that can be used as an excuse to keep her locked up > indefinitely.
		Her only crime is that she has interpreted "the > Aymaran > people's production and use of the coca leaf as a sacramental herb, a > traditional chew and breakfast tea of this culture.
	lists.indymedia.org /mailman/public/www-features/2003-October/009791.html (698 words)

	Books, Puppets, Toys and Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Lay missioners Felicia and Jason Gehrig and their Aymaran neighbors.
		Maryknoll lay missioners Felicia and Jason Gehrig live in Senkata, a poor barrio on the outskirts of the city of El Alto.
		Here the indigenous Aymaran culture is a strong presence.
	www.maryknoll.org /MARYKNOLL/MMAF/mf_gehrig.htm (418 words)

	Patagonia Adventure \| Andes Altiplano \| Atacama. Chile
		From the sublime scenery of the high Andes, with its volcanoes and ancient culture, to hiking in the mountains, lakes and glaciers of Patagonia, this is a fantastic way to spend Christmas and the welcome in the New Year.
		At the foot of Payachatas volcano at 4,392 metres Parinacota is the highest village in Chile and home to the Aymaran Indians and their remarkable 17th century Church with it’s strange collection of human skulls, ancient books and bizarre artefacts.
		We visit the church in the morning before heading to the emerald green waters of Lago Chungara, at 4,400 metres the world’s highest natural lake.
	www.infohub.com /TRAVEL/SIT/sit_pages/6132.html (2326 words)

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