Quechua Indigenous Traditions

• Photographer
  Denys Kutsevalov, Singapore
• Category
  Americas
• Studio
  Nomads

That is the only reason you might meet a Patacancha villager from the high Andes down in the town of Cusco region. He will be selling something made of alpaca. Otherwise living a traditional Quechua life, they are barely interested in city life and TV shows.

When faced with government-imposed price regulations that threatened the livelihoods of the entire community, they rallied together. Learning Spanish, they persisted until fair prices were secured for their goods.

It was a collective effort, a testament to the resilience and determination to uphold their ancestral way of life.