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Abstract
The Aymaraism, as a sociocultural phenomenon, has given rise to components and elements of representativeness within the population of the Andes. However, the dialectic component of the aymara as a nation is undermined by fundamental historiographical elements. Using the empirical analysis of the historical data, we conclude that the aymara language and culture contains ambiguous elements that cannot be defined according to the dialectical interpretation and the current narrative. The analysis of cultural, linguistic, and social elements of this population from the Early Horizon period to the present confirms the historical distortion towards a narrative component of origin and presence in the territory of the Qullasuyu. To understand this phenomenon, this work promotes the complementarity of the analysis through the use of ethnoarchaeological and documentary elements in order to clarify the origin, synthesis, and development of the aymara from a historical perspective, leaving aside the dialectic component of the present.
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Border area between Aymara and Puquina/Quechua
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Border area between Aymara and Puquina/Quechua.
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Figure 1 Early Intermediate Period. Initial sites of the major languages of ancient Peru drawing Nicanor Domínguez Faura, October 2011.
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Figure 1: Early Intermediate Period. Initial sites of the major languages of ancient Peru (drawing: Nicanor Domínguez Faura, October 2011). Source: Cerrón Palomino R. Contacts and linguistic displacements in the Central-Southern Andes: Puquina, Aimara and Quechua, 2010, p. 259.
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