Word: aymara
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Since January 1939 Mr. and Mrs. Harry Tschopik, Jr. of the Museum, have been at work in the Aymara Indian village of Chucuito, in the Peruvian Andes, an ancient community which many authorities believe represents remnants of the original Andean culture, and which maintained its own culture in the fact of both Inca and Spanish political domination...
...view of the fact that South American countries are faced with the problem of governing Indian minority groups, it would be useful to discover how and why a particular aboriginal group, namely Aymara, has effectively resisted Spanish culture to the extent that it has," the Museum report stated...