Publications

Publication details [#53742]

de la Piedra, Mara Teresa. 2010. Religious and self-generated Quechua literacy practices in the Peruvian Andes. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 13 (1) : 99–113.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

globalization | language maintenance | literacy | religion

Language as a subject

Quechua

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper discusses native Quechua language literacy and maintenance by exploring adult and child Quechua religious literacy practices in the Peruvian Cuzco department. These literacy skills appear to be transferable across contexts, but are then threatened by macro gobalization forces.