This article intends to address the problem of the testimony in the textDaughters of Kavillaca. Oral Tradition of the Women of Huarochirí. Besides,it questions the power of representation that the researchers bestow onthe informants. To pass a text from orality to writing always involves anact of manipulation and appropriation by part of the researcher. It is alsoa negotiation which reveals the struggles and tensions as a result of twodifferent cultures in contact. The text in question does not escape from theunderlying dynamics of the testimony. Therefore, we will do a review on thetensions that occurred during the process of compilation of testimonies andthe levels of representation granted to the informants. We believe that inspite of the good intentions of the researchers by providing a greater degree ofrepresentation this is buried when they assume all the editing process withoutth...

In this article we will examine the discursive function of the story “Orovilca”. Our hypothesis suggests that the mythical and symbolic element of the Andean cosmovision is the basis on which the narrative substrate is built up, as well as the mechanism on which the two main characters, Salcedo and Wilster, are created. From our point of view, both characters have features that link them with the bird and the serpent, an aspect, which although pointed out by Alejandro Ortiz Rescaniere and Gladys Marin, has not been clearly proved yet. What we propose is to analyze the significance of both characters because it is really on them that the narrative tension is based and articulated, as well as on the spaces in which the whole story unfolds.