The Singing Mountaineers: Songs and Tales of the Quechua People

by José María Arguedas and Jose; Ruth Stephan Arguedas Maria

Book Overview

The Quechua people, the "singing mountaineers" of Peru, still sing the songs that their Inca ancestors knew before the Spaniards invaded the Andes. Some of these songs, collected and translated into Spanish by Jos? Mar?a Arguedas and Mar?a Lourdes Valladares from the Quechua language and the Huanca dialect, are now presented for the first time in English in the beautiful translations of Ruth Stephan, author of the recent prize-winning novel, The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292709943
• ISBN13: 9780292709942
• Release Date: May 1971
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"