Aymara people prepare an offering to Mother Earth during the sunrise of the winter solstice ceremony in La Apacheta, El Alto, on the outskirts of La Paz. © Gaston ...

Manuel Seoane/Reuters In his colorful events salon, venues locally known as "cholet," Jhonny Segales, said the success of most Aymara people was down to hard work and not any help they got from ...

Fully immersed in the world of the Aymara people, “Yana-Wara” blends the mystical with the mundane. It turns Don Evaristo’s account of his granddaughter’s life into a story of evil done by ...

"I feel free, happy, and connected to nature when I’m there," she says. The mountain is sacred to the Aymara people, and climbers often offer coca leaves and alcohol as a sign of respect before ...

He ties the pre-Hispanic observance to the cycle of the seasons. Around the time of autumn planting, the Aymara people–under Inca rule after the fall of the Tiwanaku empire–would call upon ...

Chronic inflammation can lead to abnormal cell growth and cancer. Around 90% of the Aymara people have an enriched variant of the gene, according to Song and her team, though it is not unique to their ...

In some other cultures, however, the location of the past and the future are inverted. The Aymara, a South American Indigenous group of people living in the Andes, conceptualise the future as behind ...