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Download full textMcCormick, Penelope G.; Olson, David R. – 1991
Three different theory of mind tasks were conducted with 4- to 8-year-old Quechua peasant children in the Peruvian Andes. The study investigated the ways in which children in preliterate cultures think and the possibility that they think differently than children in literate cultures. The tasks included: (1) a false-belief task, which tested the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, American Indians, Beliefs, Cognitive Structures
Peer reviewedMannheim, Bruce – Language in Society, 1984
Outlines history of Spanish colonial policies toward Southern Peruvian Quechua and points out those issues under debate concerning the indigenous languages. The central issue of the "Andean language debate" continues to be whether or not the Quechua have a right to exist as a separate community. (SL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Colonialism, Cultural Awareness, Diachronic Linguistics
