Siklla Explained

Siklla (Quechua for a type of plants with blue blossoms / fine-looking, elegant, beautiful, proud),[1] [2] Wayra[1] (Quechua) or Doctorcitos[3] (Spanish for little doctors) is a satirical folk dance in Bolivia[4] and Peru.[1] [5] The dance is a mockery of the Spanish lawyers of the colonial period.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Diccionario Quechua - Español - Quechua, Academía Mayor de la Lengua Quechua, Gobierno Regional Cusco, Cusco 2005 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
  2. Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
  3. Siqlla o Wayra: "Los Doctorcitos", Semana RSU PUCP, Historias de Cambio en DERECHO, Octubre 2011
  4. Web site: Doctorcitos. . Viceministerio de Cultura. March 3, 2014.
  5. Web site: Festividad de la Virgen del Carmen de Huarocondo. . mincetur. March 3, 2014. March 3, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303231554/http://www.mincetur.gob.pe/TURISMO/OTROS/inventario%20turistico/Ficha.asp?cod_Ficha=6342. dead.
  6. Javier A. Galván, Culture and Customs of Bolivia, 2011

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