Forthcoming: Stories of the people of the water: Texts from Chipaya

This collection of twelve Chipaya texts offers an insight into the language, culture, history and storytelling traditions of the Chipaya people of highland Bolivia. It includes a mythical narrative, traditional folk stories as well as autobiographical texts, thereby providing various examples of Chipaya oral narratives. The texts were collected by Alfred Métraux in 1930/31 and originally published by the Journal de la Société des Américanistes in 1935/36. This volume presents a re-edition of Métraux’s texts, with interlinearisation, glossing as well as English and Spanish translations. It also includes a grammar sketch of the Chipaya language. The book thus makes Métraux’s Chipaya texts available to a broader audience, aiming at Andeanists, typologists, historical linguists and researchers working on language documentation.