Evelyn Zerpa
Originally from La Poma, Salta, Argentina. She holds a degree in Literature from the National University of Salta. She obtained two research grants to work on the narrative of daughters / sons victims of political violence in Argentina and Peru: one awarded by the Faculty of Humanities (2019) and another by the Research Council of the UNSa (2021). Between 2021 and 2022 she worked in the Office of Intercultural Bilingual Education at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology of Salta. She participated in the reintegration and strengthening of the educational trajectories of young people in middle school at Rivadavia; to accompany the process of soliciting academic and literary books by indigenous authors with a focus on cultural and educational matters; and the production of digital educational materials on culture, cosmovision, and mother tongues.
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Articles by Evelyn Zerpa
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The Tastil People Make Strides toward the Future on the Stones of the Past
The whistling of the wind envelops the hills and ravines. We feel wrapped and moved by the mystique of the lullabies that, in moments, explode into screams, until the calmness arrives again. This occurs again and again: they are the voices of our ancestors announcing their survival in the ancestral Tastil territory. In the province…
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“Salta Is Indigenous,” the Rivers Sing with Their Stones, while Mother Earth Roars
The complexion of northwestern Argentina (NOA) is being redefined, especially in border provinces such as Salta and Jujuy. When we reconstruct the history of indigenous peoples, it confirms their preexistence, even before the Inca expansion. For this reason, it is absolutely necessary to inquire about their hidden genealogies and ways of survival—through song, storytelling, medicine,…