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Writing as Poaching
BRILL 2011; US$ 129.00Reconstructing the workings of colonial Spanish bureaucracy in the production of reports on individuals? achievements, this book explores the interrelation of state-induced curricula vitae and individuals? endeavor to outsmart this system in the genesis of modern forms of literature. more...
The Rough Guide to South America On A Budget
Rough Guides 2011; US$ 31.99The Rough Guide to South America on a Budget is the definitive guide to making the most of this exotic region without breaking the bank. Backpackers, career-breakers, gap year travellers and those who want more bang for their buck will find in-depth budget information for all twelve South American countries and every aspect of travel. From hotels,... more...
Domestic Architecture, Ethnicity, and Complementarity in the South-Central Andes
University of Iowa Press 1993; US$ 47.95Domestic Architecture, Ethnicity, and Complementarity in the South-Central Andes is a comprehensive and challenging look at the burgeoning field of Andean domestic architecture. Aldenderfer and fourteen contributors use domestic architecture to explore two major topics in the prehistory of the south-central Andes: the development of different forms... more...
Cloud Road
Parthian Books 2012; US$ 7.28In every atlas there is a country missing from the maps of South America: the Andean nation. For five months John Harrison journeys through this secret country, walking alone into remote villages where he is the first gringo the inhabitants have ever seen, and where life continues as if Columbus had never sailed. He lives at over 10,000 feet for most... more...
Mining and Quarrying in the Ancient Andes
Springer 2012; US$ 99.99Over the millennia, from stone tools among early foragers to clays to prized metals and mineral pigments used by later groups, mineral resources have had a pronounced role in the Andean world. Archaeologists have used a variety of analytical techniques on the materials that ancient peoples procured from the earth. What these materials all have in common... more...
Cloud Road
Parthian Books 2010; US$ 7.99An intense and deeply personal account of five months spent high in the Andes Mountains, this travelogue combines historical and anthropological details with the thrill of extreme adventure. Hiking at more than 10,000 feet for almost the entire trip, the author follows the great road of the Incas, the Camino Real. Hand-built more than 500 years ago,... more...
Ancient Alterity in the Andes
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 41.95Ancient Alterity in the Andes is the first major treatment on ancient alterity: how people in the past regarded others. At least since the 1970s, alterity has been an influential concept in different fields, from art history, psychology and philosophy, to linguistics and ethnography. Having gained steam in concert with postmodernism?s emphasis on... more...
Yanantin and Masintin in the Andean World
University of New Mexico Press 2012; US$ 29.95Yanantin and Masintin in the Andean World is an eloquently written autoethnography in which researcher Hillary S. Webb seeks to understand the indigenous Andean concept of yanantin or "œcomplementary opposites." more...
Trials of Nation Making
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 24.00This book offers the first interpretive synthesis of the history of Andean peasants and the challenges of nation-making in the four republics of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, and raises broader issues about the interplay of liberalism, racism, and ethnicity in the formation of exclusionary 'republics without citizens'. more...
Knowledge and Learning in the Andes
Liverpool University Press 2003; US$ 28.50The aim of this book is to explore the current research into the ways in which Andean peoples create, transmit, maintain and transform their knowledge in culturally significant ways, and how processes of teaching and learning relate to these. The contributions, from eminent researchers in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies and linguistics, include... more...









