Associate Professor Elizabeth Sumida Huaman, OLPD, is a featured scholar in an important resource recently published by the U.S. Library of Congress: Interconnecting Worlds: Weaving Community Narratives, Andean Histories & the Library’s Collections.

The guide, with resources in English, Spanish and Quechua, seeks to facilitate research about Andean peoples, cultures, and knowledges through the themes of language, storytelling and literature, visual arts, and music. The Andean region encompasses the geographic areas in Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, Perú, and parts of Argentina, Chile, and Venezuela. While Andean communities are distinct, they also share a history of both resistance and resilience—the research guide aims to reflect this shared history by weaving relevant materials from the Library with interviews from Andean and Quechua visual artists, musicians, scholars, educators, poets, and community members.

Sumida Huaman, as one of the prominent scholars in this field, provides a detailed video introduction to the guide (transcript here). Access the resources within the guide via the links below:

• Introduction: ¡Allillanchu!
• Runasimi: the Language of the People
• Yachaysapa Willakuykuna: Andean Life & Memory through Storytelling
• Harawi Spotlight: Poetry and Voice
• Transcending Pacha: Andean Arts
• Framing the Andes: Stereographs
• Q’aytu Awaspa: Craft & Tradition in Andean Textiles
• Taki Kapchiy: the Sounds of the Andes
• Andean Studies External Resources
• Hispanic Reading Room