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Evelyn Zerpa
Trabajadora de la cultura e investigadora de la provincia de Salta, Argentina. Referente del proyecto cultural «Memorias en vuelo: registro sonoro de la experiencia de los pueblos indígenas de Salta durante la última dictadura». Integrante de proyectos de investigación sobre las trayectorias educativas de estudiantes de Educación Media en contextos interculturales.
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Articles by Evelyn Zerpa
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The Voice of Ckuri: The Revitalization of the Kunza Language in the Salta Puna Region, Argentina
We agreed to meet at a linguistics conference in the city of Salta. Our common interests were joining the sessions on glottopolitics and sociolinguistics and scant opportunities to discuss current research on the country’s indigenous languages. We wondered whether the topic had made it on the research and academic linguistic event’s agenda, after the United…
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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,…