ABSTRACT
In recent decades, research methodologies rooted in local Indigenous communities have emerged as epistemic acts of resistance to the colonial and development projects and as innovative assertions of grounding in and through local knowledge. Beyond responses to imperialism and neoliberalism, Indigenous research methodologies are rooted in community-based movements to affirm, protect, and reclaim Indigenous knowledge systems that include cultural practices, languages, and places. At the same time, Indigenous research methodologies from distinct community points of view are still emerging. Based on two decades of research in the highland Andes of Peru and field-based reflexivity, we consider the Quechua knowledge system in the Andean world in order to offer a proposal for rethinking research with Quechua peoples, including our children and youth.
