Who are the Chaupi? An Indian town. Who are the mistis? In Puquio? Mine workers?? I wonder what wakawak’ra trumpets sound like. Who are the Pichk’achuris?? What do they mean when they say “on the high puna”?? what are the punarunas? Are they animals?? Soooo all this is allegedly happening in peru. Who are the werak’ochas?? Apparently leading citizens of Puquio. I’d like to meet someone who is Quechua. Yawar fiesta is very descriptive of the mountains and plains, So this is the lives of Spanish mountain people, soo interesting! They really lived adventurous lives, and ate good food. I am craving peruvian cuisine reading this.. or Mexican, or Salvadoran. Most latin American food is my preference, because of their rich flavors, and livestock, the meat they produce, and then eat… it’s making sense seeing the cattle, and the herding happening. They really loved their cattle. Everything is so realistic. The lives of Andeans.During the 1930’s, these people didn’t have much.. It’s obvious that they did cry.. when their cattle left. It was all they had.. so much that they would fight them, or taunt them as well, and bullfighting became a norm. These highlands seem treacherous and the terrain seems scary, what kind of snakes or creepy crawlies are hiding in these bushes? Was it hard for these people? Living there?? Arguedas, how did he survive all this? And his writing is interesting. It seemed like there was lots of alcohol use in these communities, and people getting drunk and fighting bulls?? During fiestas??? Well, as much as I love their food, I don’t agree with the alcoholism or the violence that ensued. Some language in this novel I do not agree with, the F word, or “filthy Indians” etc. However, I do acknowledge this is in the 1930’s, and upwards to the 1950’s, where this type of language was used regularly. If it’s “as if these towns were from another world” then what exactly was happening in these towns? Only bull fighting???? What else?Who are the Lucaninos???? I cant imagine these peoples lives, and how different it was back then, if you didn’t live in Lima, you most likely lived in rural areas, and there’s something sad about it, but I guess it was just their way of life, they didn’t know any different. It does say only “important” people went to Lima frequently, who were cattlemen, land owners, and mine workers. Who are the Sondondos, or the Chakrallas, or the Aukaras, I’d like to know, but it’s just a book, there’s so much to learn outside in the real world in Lima.