Extraordinary change is under way in the Alto Urubamba Valley, a vital and turbulent corner of the Andean-Amazonian borderland of southern Peru. Here, tens of t

The modern world began with the clash of civilisations between Spaniards and native Americans. Their interplay and struggles ever since are mirrored in the fate

The Andean and Pacific regions of South America are home to a remarkable variety of languages and language families, with a range of typological differences. Th

Nowhere on Earth is there an ecological transformation so swift and so extreme as between the snow-line of the high Andes and the tropical rainforest of Amazoni

In South America indigenous languages are extremely diverse. There are over one hundred language families in this region alone. Contributors from around the wor