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Preserving indigenous names, the challenge in Bolivia in the face of globalization

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Bolivia has set out to revalue indigenous names, especially those from the Aymara, Quechua, and Guarani languages where meaning abounds, a task that is at odds with the growing intention to resort to foreign references or fashionable characters.

Part of the dilemma lies in the fact that Bolivia, with more than 11 million inhabitants, has around half of its population identified as indigenous and has undergone cultural processes of self-affirmation in recent years at the same time that globalization, the media, and the internet have instituted alternative models.

This tension also reaches the names of . . .

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