culture
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Customs
Rap in Quechua, Living Language and Culture among Cusco’s Youth
Quechua is a sweet language that our ancestors have left us, even if not everyone among us knows it or…
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Customs
No More Cusqueños?
“There are no more people from Canta”, she said, as we were talking over a hot herb tea one day…
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Food & Drinks
How We Think of Food in the Andes
The Andes mountains of Peru are filled with marvels and surprises, in nature, culture, and gastronomy. Its people live…
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Events
The Virgin vs the Official Schedule of Festivities: Two Cultures in Cuzco
The Virgin of Natividad, Almudena made her way along the side of the Plaza on Sunday morning back to her…
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Little Children Embody Culture in the Plaza de Armas Today
After practicing their dance steps for a certain time, young children from the different national and private kindergartens will present…
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Commentary
Cuzco’s Corpus Christi and La Paz’s Gran Poder, Different Combinations of Faith, Culture, and Country
Cuzco celebrated Corpus Christi this week while last Saturday the people of La Paz Bolivia carried out a different, massive…
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Double Honors for Cuzco
Cuzco continues to receive recognition throughout the world. Our Imperial City was elected the “Best Place to Visit” and the…
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Customs
On Being From Cusco
What does it mean to be from Cuzco, to be a Cusqueño? To be from Cuzco is to share lo nuestro,…
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Food & Drinks
Two Types of Menus, A Modern Wayruru in Cuzco
You go in to a restaurant, one of the some four hundred near Cuzco’s Plaza de Armas, and the server…
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Travel
Music and Dance Unite Past and Present in Cuzco
Art in Cuzco is not pure. It is a fusion of our ancestral traditions that go back to the Inca…
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