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Carter has conducted extensive studies among the Bolivian
Aymara in the department of La Paz. His Bolivia, a profile
(1971:89-91) brought together the various expressions of
the Aymara negative stereotype and put them in historical
perspective. The Bolivian Aymara (1971) by Hans C. and
Judith-Maria Buechler is a somewhat superficial network
analysis of the community of Compi on Lake Titicaca.
The languages of South American Indians (1950) by

John Alden Mason contains a short section on the Aymara
language, but it is full of inaccuracies, not only with
respect to the supposed relationship of Aymara to other
languages, but also to identification of Aymara-speaking
areas and dialects. Catdlogo de las lenguas de América
del Sur (1961) by Antonio Tovar represents a slight
improvement in the information provided but the work is
still incomplete and inaccurate and the brief grammatical
description of Aymara is very weak. Other publications
on Aymara well into the 1960s testify to the sorry state
of scholarship with respect to the language.

| Characteristic are the many virtually identical
handbooks or catalogues of common expressions in Aymara,
Quechua, and Spanish published in Bolivia, Peru, and
even Chile from the middie of the 19th century to the
present. (The latest to come to my attention is dated
1971, but new editions have probably appeared since then.)

These little books contain the kind of Aymara spoken by