Wexler Paul. Beginning Aymara

Seattle: Peace Corps training programs, University of Washington, 1967. — xvi, 486 p.Scope of the present work. This volume is the product of preliminary research conducted on two continents by a number of persons.The first fieldwork was undertaken in Seattle in the spring of 1966 by James Connors, language coordinator of Peace Corps programs at the the University of Washington. Vincente Quispe, a young bilingual speaker from La Paz, served as informant. Subse-quently, in the summer and fall of 1966, Jimmy Harris continued the fieldwork in Bolivia with the help of Vincente Quispe and a second young bilingual speaker, Eugenio Poma. Finally, the materialunderwent considerable revision in the winter of 1966-67 during the Peace Corps training program forBolivia held here in Seattle. I completed the field work with Sra. Neliy de Vega, a former teacher from Achacachi, Bolivia, and rewrote the material in its present format. Thanks go to Leonardo Bustamante for his translation of the foreword into Spanish.
It should be noted that the present format owes much to the intelligent criticism of the following trainees who participated in the Aymara program during the fall and winter of 1966-67: Wanda Echevarria, Harold Gershman, Glenn Greenberg, Daniel Le Roy, Frances Sulleatrop, Dona Walls and Michael White. While the work represents the collective ideas and contributions of many people, the editor alone is responsible for the present state of the volume and welcomes the criticism and suggestions of future trainees and linguists who may plan to utilize this material.