my first visits to Qaqachaka from 1985 to 1986, working with my husband, the Bolivian linguist Juan de Dios Yapita, provided the first oral and documentary accounts of the history of the place. I studied Qaqachaka history more seriously in 1989, followed by several months in 1991 and 1992. In later visits, in the 1990s and the year 2000, more details about this history emerged, although we were working by then on other matters. So our thanks to our colleagues for those former periods of work

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... e with a great deal of hindsight. For their genteel reception in our first visits to Qaqachaka, we thank the ayllu authorities of 1989, especially the couples who served the church as mayordomos and as alcalde mayor. Each of these couples of religious authorities took the time to explain their obligations to us, and permitted us to participate in their ceremonies with such good humour that besides learning a great deal from them, we enjoyed ourselves immensely in the process. The mayordomos were Marka: Don Alberto Choque Mamanillo and Doña María Ayca Colque; Fiscal: Don Felipe Choque Chambi and Doña Margarita; Mama Ch'uri: Don Andrés Copacondo Choque and his wife (I'm afraid I can't remember her name); Mama Candelaria: Don Zacarías Maraza Castillo and his wife, and Mama Kapitana: Don Gerónimo Colque Lupinta and Doña Andrea Mamani. The alcalde mayor couple were Don Silvestre Mamani Maraza and Doña Dionisia Chiri Tarque. We also thank the other authorities of the main pueblo of Qaqachaka in that year: the Corregidor: Don Emilio Lupinta and his family; the Agente Cantonal: Don Marcos Choque and his wife; the Registro Civil: Don Silverio Quispe and his wife; the Juez Mínimo: Don Ángel Alanoca, and the many Postillones including Don Evaristo and Doña Dominga. In the central school in the main pueblo, we thank the director in those years, Don Isaac Huayllani, and the teacher Nemesio Rodríguez for his descriptions of the changes he witnessed in his many years of service there. For their hospitality in our visits to the minor ayllu and estancia of Livichuco, we thank all the authorities there, especially those interested in their own history who invited us to give talks to their members, accompanied by delicious food. In the neighbouring pueblo of Condo, where a great deal of the ecclesiastical materials were kept until their removal to the archbishop's residence in the city of Oruro, our thanks go to the many authorities for their help during our stays in 1986, including Don Valeriano Wanka Cardozo, Don Carlos Rivero and Don Joaquín Romero Troya, and importantly the French anthropologist Dr. George Pratlong and his family. So many people in Qaqachaka helped us over those years that it is impossible to name them all, so I name here only the families who made a special point of helping us study the history of the place. The title-bearer Don Franco Quispe Maraza and his wife Doña María Ayca Llanque described to us with a great deal of patience the issues in play, and allowed us to consult their personal archives. Their daughter Doña Santusa Quispe