María Elena Alva

Waru Waru is the name given by the inhabitants of the Puno highlands to an ancient agricultural technique that allows them to make use of the vast flood-prone plains. By raising the land into large ridges and using dikes, canals, and drainage systems, they are able to create favorable conditions for farming.

In Satipo, in the jungle region of Junín, live the Asháninka, an ancestral ethnic group of the Upper Amazon. Surrounded by the encroaching civilization of the white man, they are living the final days of their original culture, which is rooted in harmony with nature.

A boy lives in an isolated world of fantasies. One day he meets an old man who has been condemned by his family to live in isolation due to a contagious disease. The two make a secret pact to make their dreams come true.

In Simbilá, on the northern coast of Peru, families of potters continue to preserve millenia-old traditions. With a wooden paddle and a stone, they mold clay into everyday objects for contemporary life.

The loss of the carmine dyeing technique, which reached great development during the Inca era.